Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to determine waste water effluent quality.Other parameters used are suspended solids‚ acidity or alkalinity and the apparent presence of oil and grease. Lason Award recipients exceeded the legal and toler able limits set by LLDAand DENR. The objective is to initiate change through public disclosure. The award gives recognition to the companies or organizations and establishments that contribute to pollution or destruction of the Pasig River. The Lason Award is a
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Lakes are relatively small to large water bodies surrounded by land on all sides sustaining an ecosystem in and around them. Lakes have been an integral part of the ecological system by providing natural abode for plants‚ animals and microorganisms. Increase in urbanization and industrialization has led to the destruction and in the reduction of lakes in the city of Bangalore‚ Surviving lakes in Bangalore are reduced to cesspools due to direct discharge of industrial effluents and unregulated dumping
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safe and acceptable condition. There are two general treatment objectives with respect to wastewater: 1. Reducing or minimizing the public health hazards of a wastewater. These are general treatment measures aimed at preventing pathogens and other potentially harmful components from finding their way back to the consumer‚ and 2. Eliminating‚ reducing or minimizing the deteriorative impact of a wastewater on the receiving water quality and its environment. A sharp distinction must be made between
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life-line‚ a symbol of purity and virtue for countless people of India. Ganga is a representative of all other rivers in India. Millions of Ganga devotees and lovers still throng to the river just to have a holy dip‚ Aachman (Mouthful with holy water)‚ and absolve themselves of sins. We Indians are raised to consider Ganga as a goddess‚ as sacred. We tell our children and grandchildren the stories of how she came down to Earth through a lock of Shiva’s hair. The Ganga temples‚ countless rituals
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WATER COOPERATION –ISSUES AND CHALLENGES 1. Introduction Population growth and higher living standards will cause ever increasing demands for good quality municipal and industrial water‚ and ever increasing sewage flows. At the same time‚ more and more irrigation water will be needed to meet increasing demands for food for growing populations. This will require intensive management and international cooperation. Since almost all liquid fresh water on the planet occurs underground‚ groundwater will
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world at present while poverty still affect one fifth of human population after the population explosion and accelerating urbanization. The contradiction typically occurs in the coastal zones‚ which are under the pressure from population growth‚ pollution‚ over-exploitation of resources and habitat degradation due to these areas hold approximately half of the world’s population. In China‚ the whole country is fueled by “powerful social and economic forces” that are “promoting individual development
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thousand three. Republic Act No. 9275 March 22‚ 2004 AN ACT PROVIDING FOR A COMPREHENSIVE WATER QUALITY MANAGEMENT AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled: CHAPTER 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS ARTICLE 1 DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES AND POLICIES SECTION 1. Short Title. - This Act shall be known as the "Philippine Clean Water Act of 2004." SECTION 2. Declaration of Policy. - The State shall pursue a policy of economic growth
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by Shri Rajeev Gandhi‚ the then Prime Minister of India on 14 Jan. 1986 with the main objective of pollution abatement‚ to improve the water quality by Interception‚ Diversion and treatment of domestic sewage and present toxic and industrial chemical wastes from identified grossly polluting units entering in to the river. The other objectives of the Ganga Action Plan are as under. Control of non-point pollution from agricultural run off‚ human defecation‚ cattle wallowing and throwing of unburnt
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I INTRODUCTION A. Background of the Study Water pollution has been considered as one of the primary destroyers of Earth’s environmental health. With the development of technology and industries‚ the bodies of water are left unclean. Few of the most alarming effects of water pollution are food contamination and disturbance in the food chain. Researchers have long been searching for answers for the elimination and prevention of water pollution‚ which will cost less than the usual and commercial
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flash flood‚ pollution‚ erosion‚ sedimentation and others. To this end‚ urban water professionals across the globe continually seek and research methods in transitioning current cities into water sensitive cities. In Brown et al. (2008)‚ the authors cited Professor Tony Wong‚ CEO of the Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) that‚ “Water sensitive cities are resilient‚ liveable‚ productive and sustainable.” A water sensitive city would differ significantly from conventional urban water approaches which
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