Rajkot: Porbandar-based National Fish Forum (NFF) had written to the district administration and Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) to ban the industries releasing polluted water. The fishermen’s body had raised its objection against laying of deep sea pipelines which will discharge ‘untreated’ water in the sea killing aquatic lives.
In its memorandum to the Porbandar district collector and GPCB, NFF had pointed out to the state government’s scheme of laying deep sea pipelines on the entire coastline for discharging the water released by industries.
In Porbandar too the industries have started laying the pipelines. “We have objections to digging of farm and government lands in Porbandar for laying of pipelines which will not only pollute sea water but also the farm lands,” the memorandum stated.
Gujarat rivers remain highly polluted despite norms
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Effluents continue to be dumped in Sabarmati and Mahisagar
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A boy watches polluted industrial water being thrown in to Sabarmati river outskirts of Ahmedabad. File
| Photo Credit: Vijay Soneji
Effluents continue to be dumped in Sabarmati and Mahisagar The unchecked flow of untreated industrial effluent into rivers in Gujarat has led to increasing pollution in the Sabarmati, Mahisagar, Narmada, Vishwamitri and Bhadar. According to data from the Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF), the Sabarmati is among the most polluted rivers in the country.
Gujarat ranks fourth among the top five States with highly polluted rivers, with as many as 20 rivers in the critically polluted category.
Wastewater surveillance can warn of Covid-19 spikes weeks in advance: IIT Gandhinagar study
Hotspots may provide authorities with up to 2 weeks of time to improvise thought-through interventions to manage Covid-19 cases.
Jan 07, 2021 14:48:04 IST
Surveillance of untreated wastewater can warn officials about an impending spike or decrease in COVID-19 cases up to two weeks in advance, according to a study conducted by scientists at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Gandhinagar. The researchers, including those from Gujarat Biotechnology Research Centre (GBRC), explored the association between the SARS-CoV-2 genetic load in wastewater and the number of Covid-19 cases at the district level in Gandhinagar, to establish if wastewater surveillance can be an effective tool to warn about the disease early.
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SURAT: After a significant reduction in air pollution levels during the lockdown, the industrial town of Ankleshwar is again in the red zone following an increase in air pollution levels.
According to the Air Quality Index (AQI) published on Tuesday, the PM2.5 levels were recorded at 304 and that the PM10 was recorded at 178.
Official sources said that currently, the industrial activity in Ankleshwar is on in full capacity, leading to the increase in air pollution.
“It is a matter of concern as the air pollution levels have increased. We will be organising meeting with industry stakeholders soon,” said a senior officer of GPCB
File photo the toxic waste dumped in ground by the company in Vapi’s Sarigam GIDC
SURAT: The Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) on Saturday issued a closure notice and slapped a fine of Rs 50 lakh on chemical company Survival Technologies Pvt Ltd for illegally dumping toxic waste into the ground in Sarigam GIDC of Vapi in Valsad district.
On December 19, GPCB team had unearthed three drums filled with toxic chemicals that were clandestinely buried in the factory’s premises.
Following the discovery, the GPCB ordered scanning of all factory units in Sarigam GIDC to detect similar practices by unit owners. It is suspected that there might be other units who were dumping toxic waste illegally into the ground or in any other manner which is in violation of the Environment Protection Act.