Water- A resource management perspective

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Water is one of the most essential of all natural resources. The supply of potable fresh water has assumed critical dimensions both in terms of quality and quantity. Large stretches of rivers have no water and are heavily polluted giving rise to grave environmental consequences. Ground water is depleting fast and also being severely [...]

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Waste Utilisation in Tanneries

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Clean Process technologies and waste utilization in tanneries
It is being increasingly recognized that end of pipe solutions are not the ultimate strategy for waste management. Economic instruments have a major role to play. These also include cost cuttings through  recovery, reuse and recycle of waste materials as also a more prudent use of resources [...]

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UASB Technology for Waste Water Treatment

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Domestic/municipal wastewater and many industrial effluents contain significant amounts of biodegradable organic wastes. Organic pollutants are most economically treated by biological methods, wherein microbes convert them to inert biomass that can be precipitated out and eliminated from the wastewater. Biological treatment is essentially of two types- aerobic and anaerobic. In comparison to aerobic biodegradation, anaerobic [...]

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ISO 14001 Environmental Management System

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India has taken large strides towards multi-faced socio-economic development during the 50 years since independence. However, this development has also brought along with it the pressures on Land, Water and Air quality affecting the environment adversely.
To control the environmental pollution, the Govt. has laid an organisational, regulatory and fiscal framework under the MOEF & Central/State [...]

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Industry, Environment and the Judiciary

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With the promulgation of the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act 1974, India initiated a process of establishing a regime for control of pollution . A Central Act of Parliament, consequently adopted by the state legislatures, the Water Act, established the Water Pollution Control Boards, which were consequently, with the promulgation of the Air [...]

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