Water And Waste

The Mumbai Port may soon have a state-of-the-art marina, which will cater to yachts that visit or are based in Mumbai and promote the city as a world-class tourist destination. This comes in the backdrop of the Mumbai Port Authority (MbPA) floating tenders for the development of a marina at...

Tata Steel has successfully completed the first multi-modal shipment of 960 tonnes of steel TMT bars from Haldia port in West Bengal to Agartala in Tripura via the Indo-Bangladesh Protocol (IBP) route. The entire transportation from being flagged off to receiving material at distributor’s warehouse was completed in 17 days,...

Union Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat has announced that his government intends to completely stop the release of raw sewerage by 2022, reports Indian Express. Shekhawat said that his ministry is working in top gear to meet the 2022 deadline, adding that Uttarakhand and Jharkhand have already accomplished the task. He...

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)- Kharagpur will soon have their own ship design and testing facility, enabling India to test vessels within the country rather than sending ships to Germany, the Netherlands, Russia and Belgium for testing, the Business Line reports. The facility will be operational in three years, and the investment...

After the country’s first solar ferry was launched in the state in 2016, Kerala will soon witness the launch of a solar-powered cruise ship by December this year (2019), reports The Hindu. This is part of an initiative of the State Water Transport Department (SWTD), which was also the department which had...

After the country’s first solar ferry was launched in the state in 2016, Kerala will soon witness the launch of a solar-powered cruise ship by December this year (2019), reports The Hindu. This is part of an initiative of the State Water Transport Department (SWTD), which was also the department which had...

Sarayan river, a small tributary of Gomti river in Uttar Pradesh, which was reduced to a filthy canal over the years, is undergoing a total makeover, thanks to the relentless effort by Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) MLA Rakesh Rathore from Sitapur constituency, reports OpIndia. The MLA is planning to develop a riverfront on...

To transform into a major transshipment hub, the V O Chidambaranar Port in Thoothukudi — fourth-largest container port in India — is planning to build a third container terminal, The Hindu Business Line has reported. According to the report, the port trust plans to convert berth number nine into a new container...

The twentieth executive committee meeting of Namami Gange held on 15 February (2019) approved sewerage infrastructure and other projects worth Rs 1,387 crore which will be taken up in towns along Yamuna river. Projects like construction and renovation of sewage treatment plants, online monitoring systems of such plants will also be taken up. In Etawah...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday (16 December) inaugurated various projects in Prayagraj including a 175 Km sewerage network which will carry sewage water, that used to end up in Ganga, to existing treatment plants. According to a press release by the Ministry of Water Resources (MWR), the projects will carry 7.8...