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NOIDA: The Noida Authority plans to treat the waste water flowing into the city from Delhi at its sewage treatment plants (STPs). The purified water would be used by the Authority for irrigating green belts, construction and other purposes. IIT-Roorkee has been told to conduct a feasibility study for the project. It will submit its report within a month. About half a dozen drains empty into Noida every day. These drains flow from New Ashok Nagar and other areas of Delhi adjacent to Noida. The sewage would be channelized to the STPs soon after it enters the city to prevent pollution further downstream. "So far, we have been unable to check the pollution caused by these drains. The Authority has been fielding complaints about air pollution," said Samakant Srivastava, PE (Jal), Noida Authority. Officials said the waste water flowing through the drains also contaminates the city's groundwater sources. Noida has been categorized as a critically polluted area by the Central P

NEW DELHI: About 8,000-odd residents of SavdaGhevda's slums and resettlement colonies will soon have access to subsidized reverse osmosis (RO) treated water. Delhi Jal Board is setting up a pilot project under which it will provide RO water to the residents for Rs 3-6 per 20 litres. "This area is currently fed through tubewells and tankers. We are often unable to meet the full demand through tankers and would like to replace the system. Under the new project, we will dig one tubewell and treat it through RO. We will then set up kiosks, like those installed at milk booths, to dispense water. If someone purchases water from the plant itself, it will cost them Rs 3 per 20 litres. If it is bought from any other kiosk, it will cost Rs 6 per 20 litres. This will cover the cost of transporting the water from the plant to the kiosks," said a senior DJB official. According to sources, the pilot project will cover about 8,000 people and eventually cover a population of about 25,0

After countless trips between New Delhi and Odisha over the past five years, Ho-Chan Ryu finally moved base to state capital Bhubaneswar in mid-May. The deputy managing director of Posco had good reason to do so. In the second week of May, a Supreme Court (SC) judgement took the Korean steelmaker one step closer to making the metal in India — a goal it has been steadfastly pursing against significant odds for the past eight years. The SC set aside a 2010 order of the Orissa High Court — triggered by a petition by a rival, Geomin Minerals & Marketing — that had nullified the state's government's recommendation of allotting a prospecting licence for the Khandadhar iron ore mines to Posco. "This [judgement] will significantly help expedite the project. We are happy that it has come at a time when there has been significant progress on the land clearance work," says YW Yoon, chairman and managing director of Posco India. Burning issues Getting rights to a virgin res

NEW DELHI: Despite Uttar Pradesh releasing water for Delhi after the Ganga canal closure, some parts of south Delhi continue to face water shortage. A two-hour long power cut at the Cantt booster pumping station on Thursday disrupted the water supply again for the next two days in the Vasant Vihar command area and part of the Ring Road. Delhi Jal Board is facing a massive increase in demand with Delhi being ravaged by a heat wave since last week. "DJB has touched a record-high production and is treating 834-835 million gallons water per day. Since demand is so high, we have been trying to rationalize water so that everyone gets some supply at least," said a senior official. The supply would resume normally after a day or so, said an official. 0 However, the residents in Saket and nearby Vasant Vihar are complaining that water is yet to reach their homes. At Saket's D block, water supply was disrupted around May 17 - the day the Ganga canal was shut. "Before that, w

New Delhi: The Delhi Parks and Gardens Society CEO has summoned officials from DDA on June 4 to ask about their plans for reviving and maintaining water bodies in Dwarka. The meeting has been called in response to a story published by TOI on May 22 which highlighted how the land-owning agency was undoing work put in by residents to revive a water body in Sector 23. "I was informed that the residents didn't receive a favourable response from DDA even after they met the official concerned. Having seen what is being done to this water body by the DDA, I have asked them to prepare an integrated plan on water management for Dwarka. If officials fail to act on this, a complaint against them can be made in the court for violation of its orders," said S D Singh, CEO of the society and nodal officer for work on revival of water bodies in Delhi. He added that DDA would have to submit a detailed plan with a time frame for revival of each water body in Dwarka. "The fact that t

NEW DELHI: In the absence of additional water from the Munak canal, Delhi Jal Board has put in place several measures to ensure that water distribution is not affected this summer when demand is expected to rise. The water utility will try and ensure an average production of 835 million gallons per day of water during the summer months. The water will be supplied to various areas through a network of 87 underground reservoirs. Officials said that about 200 km of old pipelines have been replaced while 333 major leak points were repaired in the last year. "Preventive maintenance works like flushing of water mains, cleaning of underground reservoirs and servicing of equipments at the pump houses has been carried out to ensure uninterrupted functioning of water installations during summer. Additional tube wells have been installed or re-bored where it was technically possible. We have also acquired 400 new water tankers with stainless steel containers. These tankers are fitted with

NEW DELHI: The government's plan to detach tribal rights from clearances to projects requiring forestlands partially boomeranged after the Supreme Court on Thursday ordered that the gram sabha should decide if their customary and religious rights would be impacted by Vedanta's proposed bauxite mining in Niyamgiri hills in Odisha. The decision will dampen the pressure within the UPA to further dilute the norms that empower tribal gram sabhas under the Forest Rights Act to give consent to projects requiring forestlands. A report prepared by the PMO in December 2012 had recommended that the rights of gram sabhas under the Forest Rights Act to give prior consent to projects should be watered down to operate only in cases of exception. The tribal affairs ministry gave in to the pressure and agreed to the report and the environment ministry followed up by agreeing to do away with the need for consent from gram sabhas for linear projects. But the pressure building u