Mumbai: If you thought adulterating milk meant diluting it with water, heres a disgusting reality check. Cops caught four milk vendors red-handed selling milk packets mixed with sewage water to customers in Vile Parle (East) in Mumbai on Monday. The milk vendors were engaged in this act since the past six months and were using empty milk packets that they collected from garbage bins. Acting on a tip-off, Vile Parle...
12:45 PM, May 29, 2012
b>Washington: An innovative device as big as a washing machine kills two birds with one stone - it harnesses bugs to clean up municipal sewage and produces fuel. Commercial versions of the two-in-one device, an aspect of microbial fuel cell (MFC) being developed by Orianna Bretschger's team at the J Craig Venter Institute, could be a boon for the developing world. "Our prototype incorporates innovations so that it can process...
12:35 PM, Mar 30, 2012
Washington: Scientists have developed a new cheap igloo-shaped, pollution-eating device that can clean up sewage just as effectively as multimillion-dollar treatment facilities. Developed by researchers at the University of Utah, the sewage-eating device, called 'Poo-Gloos', use a thriving bacterial biofilm to consume pollutants from sewage lagoons. It consists of a set of four progressively smaller, plastic domes nested within each other like Russian nesting dolls and filled with plastic packing...
03:28 PM, Jan 10, 2011
A lot of waste is present in the water you drink. ...
07:45 PM, Sep 26, 2009
CJ Pradeep Bhatia has had enough of clogged sewage lines. ...
01:18 PM, Jun 24, 2009
In high priced gold market, the waste equals nearly US $200, 000 a year. ...
11:59 AM, Feb 24, 2009
Mohali: Despite winning their last game against them, Kings XI Punjab's captain and coach Adam Gilchrist feels that Mumbai Indians are a dangerous side. Mumbai is a dangerous side. They are an all-round side with quality players and star-studded line-up, Gilchrist said on the eve of his team's return-leg clash against the Harbhajan Singh-led side. Punjab, which is being led by stand-in captain David Hussey in the absence of Gilchrist, ...
04:01 PM, May 15, 2008
Mumbai: After the sponsors of the annual Border-Gavaskar Scholarship pulled-out, the Australia-India Council (AIC) has put an end to the annual visit of young Indian cricketers to the Australian Centre of Excellence in Brisbane after a decade of its existence. Although the Indian Cricket Board was not directly involved in the scheme, the BCCI used to nominate three young cricketers for the annual training stint in Australia, said Board's Chief...
04:02 PM, Feb 06, 2008
Port of Spain: West Indies skipper Darren Sammy blamed the 16-run defeat against India in the lone Twenty20 match on playing too many dot balls. The hosts, while chasing 160 to win, did not score off 50 balls, which amounts to 40 per cent of the balls at their disposal. Dot balls have been plaguing us and we left it a little too late in the end. But with people ...
12:21 PM, Feb 01, 2008
Belfast: Ireland will be aiming to level the two match one day international (ODI) series against Pakistan as they two teams clash for the second time in three days at the Civil Service Cricket Club in Stormont, Belfast. The visitors won the first ODI comprehensively by seven wickets after Ireland were bundled out for 96 in a match that was reduced to 36 overs per side because of rain. Junaid...
11:38 PM, Jan 30, 2008
An earth embankment around a cesspool collapsed spewing a river of sewage killing four people in Gaza Strip. ...
09:07 PM, Mar 27, 2007
On World Water Day, CNN-IBN finds just why the Ganga ranks in the top five most polluted rivers of the world. ...
12:49 AM, Mar 24, 2007
The Ganga waits for deliverance at Varanasi as sewage is dumped into it and the holy river is choking to death. ...
09:32 AM, Nov 18, 2006
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