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Environmental governance in India has been undergoing a major

overhaul. In order to track release of pollutants through air

emissions and effluent discharge from industries with high pollution

potential, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) introduced online

Continuous Emission Monitoring Systems (OCEMS), a real-time air and

water pollution monitoring system vide its letter…

Respected Environmentalists,

Trust you all are working hard towards achieving resolutions taken on 5th June, 2017.

Couple of day’s back I was reading a blog “How to test water quality? Here are some low-cost, low-tech options” shared by Jessica Anne Lawson on the World Bank site. The blogger has reservation on quality of water testing results by different laboratories. Immediately I felt to share my views. As I kept on writing, my thought process went on changing. It is true…

Emission monitoring of Diesel Generator (DG) sets are governed by Emission Standards notified by the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEF&CC), Government of India vide G.S.R. 489 (E), dated 9th July, 2002 GSR 771(E) Dated 11th December, 2013.

Often during construction phase of projects it is found that Diesel Generator (DG) sets are fitted with stack exhausts having inadequate sampling porthole. An appropriate sampling porthole location is essential…

On 4th January, 2017, The Chairman of Central Ground Water Authority (CGWA) issued a Public Notice that reads as follows:



All the industrial units/ Infrastructure/Mining projects whether existing or new or under expansion, using ground water are directed to submit their applications with due recommendation of State Pollution Control Board along with ground water quality analysis report, rain water harvesting proposal, flow charts of water balance,…

Dear Environmentalist Friends,

 

Although solid waste is an inevitable part of human life, we have reached to a level of more than 1,43,449 TPD of MSW generation. With growing emphasis of Swachh Bharat  and motivational advertisement by the Government of India by using much adored Bollywood actor Shri Amitabh Bachchan - many group housing societies, industries,…