water quality monitoring

Mumbai, March 25 The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has pointed to serious lapses in the functioning of the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB), stating that it cleared 50 per cent of the consent applications received from industries beyond the stipulated 60-day period.In its...

Bengaluru, March 24 Karnataka received less than half of its allocation under the JJM due to its inability to utilize the funds already released, the CAG said in its report.The report of the Comptroller & Auditor General (CAG) on the implementation of the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) for the...

Agartala, March 19 – Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha said on Thursday that purified drinking water is now being supplied to all 51 wards under the Agartala Municipal Corporation (AMC), supported by an extensive network of treatment and iron-removal plants.Speaking on the fifth day of the...

District Development Commissioner of Kishtwar, Pankaj Kumar Sharma, today chaired a review meeting of the District Water and Sanitation Mission, Jal Jeevan Mission, and Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen) to assess the progress of drinking water supply schemes in the district.The DC directed the...

Chandigarh, March 12 Top Haryana officials, including Chief Secretary Anurag Rastogi, said there has been "significant improvement" in the ongoing efforts to clean the Yamuna river.Improvements were noted in wastewater treatment, industrial compliance, and sewerage infrastructure during the...

New Delhi, March 12 – The Delhi government clarified on Thursday that there is no shortage of LPG, petrol, diesel, or PNG in the capital and warned of action against black marketers, according to an official quoting the office of Chief Minister Rekha Gupta.The government has advised citizens...

New Delhi, March 12 – As many as 3.54 crore (18.29 per cent) rural households still lack access to piped water, with Kerala and Jharkhand being the top two states with the highest percentage (over 44 per cent) of village homes awaiting this facility, the Lok Sabha was informed on Thursday...

Washington, February 19 – Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser has declared the month-long Potomac River sewage spill a local public emergency to request federal support.On January 19, a section of the Potomac Interceptor, a major sewage pipeline operated by DC Water – the main water utility that...

Jammu, February 13 A high-level, inter-departmental committee is being set up to ensure flood control and water security in Jammu and Kashmir, Cabinet Minister Javed Ahmed Rana said on Friday.Speaking on grants for the public health engineering department in the Assembly, Rana, who holds the...

New Delhi, February 12 Under the Jal Jeevan Mission, 2,870 water quality testing laboratories are functioning across the country as of February 2026 to ensure safe drinking water for every rural household, Jal Shakti Minister C R Patil said in a written reply in the Lok Sabha on Thursday...