VA Tech Wabag Q4 net profit remains flat

Last Updated: Tuesday, May 26, 2015, 15:58

Shares of the company were trading at Rs 741.60 apiece, down by 4.62 percent, on the BSE.

Nagaland PHE successfully implementing new tech for potable water

Last Updated: Friday, January 10, 2014, 23:29

The Public Health Engineering Department (PHED), Nagaland is successfully implementing a new technology to provide drinking water facilities in rural areas using solar energy developed by a Mumbai-based company.

Using date palm seeds for water treatment

Last Updated: Thursday, December 26, 2013, 21:33

A leading university in Oman has made significant progress in using date palm seeds for the treatment of polluted water, a media report here said.

Water treatment facilities hotspots for superbugs: Study

Last Updated: Sunday, December 22, 2013, 09:57

Even as the crisis of antibiotic resistance looms large, an international team of doctors has found that waster water treatment facilities, including where chlorination of drinking water is done, are hotspots for spread of the multidrug-resistance organisms or superbugs.

Waste water treatment facilities make for hardy bacteria

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 18, 2013, 19:07

Waste water treatment facilities can be hotspots for the spread of antibiotic resistance in bacteria, making them immune to drugs that fight infection.

Now, spinning CDs to clean sewage water

Last Updated: Tuesday, September 24, 2013, 18:17

Wonder what to do with your obsolete audio CDs? Researchers have come up with a practical application: they can be used to break down sewage.

Rural areas must be targeted to exacerbate global clean drinking water crisis: Study

Last Updated: Friday, July 26, 2013, 14:19

A recent study has revealed the efforts made to provide clean drinking water has been limited to affluent areas, while it is required much more in the rural areas suffering acute shortage of accessible drinking water supply.

Seventeen plants for potable water in coastal Kerala

Last Updated: Tuesday, April 23, 2013, 15:50

Authorities in Kerala are set to install 17 water treatment plants in the coastal region to provide affordable potable water to the people, an official said.