The Delhi high court on Tuesday warned civic authorities it would summon the city’s environment secretary if its directions on construction of special permanent enclosures on the Yamuna bank are not taken seriously.
Justice G P Mittal pulled up the civic authorities for failure to build the enclosures for immersion of idols and other items during festivals to ensure the river doesn’t get choked.

Rise in Delhi's sewage treatment capacity to realise goal: Jal Board

The Delhi Jal Board has begun the New Year on an optimistic note. The water utility claims that by the end of 2012 the Yamuna's filthy state will have changed and Delhi will have a clean river.

The Jal Board claims that in the next four months the city's sewage treatment capacity will have increased by 100 MGD and the rehabilitation of trunk sewers will be complete, which means a considerable amount of untreated waste will not make its way into the river.

India is getting assistance from Japan for a programme to cleanse the Yamuna river, Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan said Monday.

In a written reply to a query in the Lok Sabha, Natarajan informed the lower house that the Japanese government would provide India a loan of over 32 billion yen for the third phase of the plan.

The central government today approved the Rs 1,656-crore phase-III of Yamuna Action Plan (YAP) for Delhi under which it is proposed to rehabilitate damaged trunk sewers to maximise use of sewage treatment plants (STPs) in Okhla, Kondli and Rithala, apart from construction of a new STP at Okhla.
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, approved the proposal of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)-assisted YAP phase-III project under the centrally-sponsored scheme of National River Conservation Plan.

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on Thursday gave the green signal to the proposed third phase of cleaning the 22-km stretch of Yamuna river passing through Delhi. The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)-assisted Yamuna Action Plan (YAP) Phase III project in Delhi was approved under the Centrally sponsored scheme of National River Conservation Plan at an estimated cost of Rs 1,656 crore.

New Delhi: After Durga was immersed with festive fervour, devotees bent their heads reverentially for the sprinkling of ‘holy water’. But they were in fact breathing stench and getting sprayed with drain water. The Yamuna seemed like a dirty nullah choked and frothing with filth and scum.

Sees Pollution Continuing With Delay In Interceptor Sewage Project
Neha Lalchandani TNN
New Delhi: Any hope of seeing a clean Yamuna in the near future was dispelled on Sunday by environment minister Jairam Ramesh, who said such a situation was not possible before at least the end of 2015.

The minister, who carried out an inspection of the river on Sunday morning and followed up with a me

Work on a Rs 1,357.71-crore plan to lay an interceptor sewer along three major drains to control pollution in the Yamuna is expected to start on June this year and will be completed in 36 months, a Delhi Jal Board (DJB) affidavit in the Supreme Court said on Monday.

The DJB, represented by Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium in the Supreme Court, said the proposal for laying the interceptor sew

New Delhi: An interactive model of a house with details of which activity consumes how much water and a machine that will tell you how much of your body weight comprises of water are just some of the exhibits at the water and waste water gallery that was launched at the National Science Centre on Tuesday.