Water Pollution

South Goa District Collector, G P Naik has sought a detailed report from the Tourism Department on the plan of action to lift away tar balls collected at various locations along Salcete’s coastal belt. The report has been asked for after Deputy Collector, Margao Johnson Fernandes toured the entire coastal belt – right from Cavelossim to Velsao – to find out the ground situation vis-à-vis the tar

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Rashme Sehgal ‘The Mumbai oil spill should be used as an opportunity to assess oil spill emergency response preparedness. The Coast Guard recently reviewed its response system in the wake of the Mexico Gulf crisis. The Mumbai spill is an indicator about our lack of preparedness.’ SRIKANT FONDEKAR, a scientist who has had a long association with the National Institute of Oceanography

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Sreekantswamy B, Mysore, Sept 5, DHNS With Gowri Ganesha festival around the corner, the National Institute of Engineering (NIE) is all set to launch a campaign on ‘eco-friendly’ celebration of ganesha festival. Awareness A poster emphasising on celebrating Ganesha festival, without affecting environment pasted at one of the shops opposite to NIE, in Mysore, on Sunday.

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Ghaziabad: The heavy discharge of industrial effluents has severely affected aquatic fauna at the Ramsar site, set up in River Ganga in 165 km stretch from Bijnore to Narora in Uttar Pradesh. Ramsar sites are a tag for critical water bodies across the globe.

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The shipping ministry has asked maritime states to prepare an oil spill contingency plan, in the wake of the recent oil spill off Mumbai coast. The ministry is planning to devise a scheme for utilising oil cess collected by ports for providing assistance to mitigate oil pollution at ports. “The Coast Guard is equipped and responsible to handle oil spill of significant magnitude.

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The Indian Coast Guard today virtually ruled out the possibility of oil spillage being the reason for the presence of tar balls on Goan shores. Environment Minister Aleixo Sequeira had stated that the discharge of oil by some “rogue” vessel in the high seas may be the reason for presence of tar balls along the shores at Colva, Betalbatim, and Velsao besides several others. Virtually ruling out s

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Experts today blamed the monitoring bodies – the Indian Coast Guard and the Indian Navy for the oil spillage on the Goans beaches. Merchant Navy chief engineer Surendra Shirodkar and Radio Monitoring Officer Gloria Furtado, who have experience of almost twenty years each in sailing on various vessels, including very large cargo carrier (VLCC) have alleged that the poor monitoring system by the Co

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THE Coast Guard has to urgently address the requirement of augmenting the response capabilities at the highest level in order to avert calamities following any oil spill, a top official with the organisation responsible for various services at sea said on Wednesday. This was necessary given the environmental hazards arising out of such an event, pointed out DIG B S Yadav, Commander, Coast Guard

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Polluting industries along a 500-km stretch of the Ganga between Kannauj and Varanasi might soon face the axe.

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