Municipal waste water reuse could boost future drinking water supplies
A new report from the National Research Council says that, with recent advances in technology and design, treating municipal waste water and reusing it for drinking water, irrigation, industry, and other applications could significantly increase the nation
Intense and destructive storms are likely to occur more frequently as global warming intensifies, Greenpeace said on Saturday.
Greenpeace says even a small increase in the ocean
New Delhi:Taking a serious note of the drop in air quality and smog cover that has engulfed the city, a Supreme Court-appointed body on Saturday asked Delhi, Haryana, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh governments to take immediate steps to cut pollution.
At a meeting, the Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA) headed by bureaucrat Bhure Lal told senior officials of the three governments to work in tandem to ensure improvement of air quality in Delhi and the two states.
Officials of all the three governments told EPCA that they will crack down on polluting vehicles, particularly the diesel vehicles, so that they cannot enter Delhi from neighbouring states
The Supreme Court had expressed concern over the rising pollution and smog in the national capital.
The EPCA, which called the meeting, asked Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Punjab to restrain farmers from burning paddy stubbles. The Delhi government had blamed
Currently the ENSO conditions over equatorial Pacific are in the border line between warm ENSO neutral and weak El Nino conditions. Latest forecasts from almost all ENSO prediction models indicate a transition to sustained El Nino conditions during the southwest monsoon with probability of about 70%. The chance for El Nino conditions increases to about 80% during the subsequent period. June to Audust and July to September seasons are likely to be drier than normal over most parts of India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh, whereas, normal to wetter than normal conditons are likely over most part of Afganistan, southern parts of Sri Lanka and southern parts of Myanmar.
