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Ganga pollution: Centre to hold meet with village heads

By : sustainabilityo..., Jan 25, 2016

With an aim of bringing down the level of pollution in Ganga, the Centre will hold a meeting with heads of all 1,657 villages situated along the river here next week.

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Center notifies revised standards for CETPs to minimise water pollution

By : sustainabilityo..., Jan 18, 2016

The Center has notified revised standards for Common Effluent Treatment Plants (CETPs), operating at various industrial clusters in the country, to minimise water pollution.

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India’s Ajmer airport to set up 100MW solar project

By : sustainabilityo..., Jan 8, 2016

The Airport Authority of India will generate 100 megawatt power from solar energy to light up the under-construction Ajmer airport at Kishangarh.

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Panasonic Provides Smart City Technologies to Denver

By : sustainabilityo..., Jan 6, 2016

Panasonic has formed a smart city partnership with Denver, Colorado, and a number of local private entities that aims to improve energy efficiency, water management and other public services....

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1007 textile units give consent to join cluster parks

By : sustainabilityo..., Dec 29, 2015

In all, 1,007 out of the total 2,090 textile processing units in the districts of Erode, Namakkal, Salem and Karur have given their consent for joining the Integrated Textile Processing Park, which will be having a common effluent treatment plant (CETP) facility.

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Dewas water supply project to be recast

By : sustainabilityo..., Nov 13, 2015

The Madhya Pradesh government is planning to restructure India's first water supply project dedicated to industrial units at Dewas.

The project will allow a private player to lift water from an intake well on the Narmada-Kshipra river link nearby. State government...

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Solar-powered Water Supply to Panchayats

By : sustainabilityo..., Nov 10, 2015

With 285 gram panchayat (GP) headquarters of the State out of reach of pipe water supply scheme, the Government has directed the Rural Development Department to ensure that these panchayats are provided safe drinking water under the solar energy-based dual pump scheme.

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Veolia enters biomass power market in Japan

By : sustainabilityo..., Nov 5, 2015

French waste and water treatment group Veolia Environnement (EPA:VIE) today said it won two contracts for operation of biomass-fired power plants in northern Japan.

Veolia is active in Japan since 2002 but the deals mark the French company's entry into the energy...

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Coca-Cola HBC Commits to Halving Carbon Emissions

By : sustainabilityo..., Nov 4, 2015

Coca-Cola HBC intends to reduce its water use intensity by 30 percent by 2020 compared to 2010 and direct carbon emissions intensity...

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Use processed waste water to generate power: Govt to cos

By : sustainabilityo..., Nov 4, 2015

In a push to the 'Swachh Bharat' campaign, government will soon make it compulsory for power plants to use processed waste water and also allow sourcing any amount of electricity generated from waste under new power tariff policy.

"We will come out with new tariff...

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