Sewer Lines

Three sanitation workers died after allegedly inhaling poisonous gases while cleaning a drainage line without any safety gear in Gujarat's Bharuch district on Tuesday, police said.

Tracking microbes through a malodorous network of sewer lines led virologist Marc Johnson to the source of unusual coronavirus mutants.

Three workers and a rickshaw puller died after falling into a sewer line in Sector-16 of Rohini in Delhi, police said today.

The Delhi government has earmarked Rs 1,300 crore for development and construction works in unauthorised colonies during 2022-23 fiscal with Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia saying all such localities will have sewer lines by 2022 end.

Two sanitation workers died of suffocation, while another went missing after they entered a sewer line without wearing any safety equipment in Gujarat's Ahmedabad city on Thursday, police and fire department said.

Delhi BJP president Manoj Tiwari hit out at Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday saying he has shown his "in-sensitiveness" by attending a programme for inauguration of a sewer line project in Timarpur on a day 43 lives were lost in a fire incident in the city.

The Gurgaon traffic officer said that a sewer line running underneath Basai road and the water from the rain might have weakened the road causing it to cave in.

Aimed at preventing sewer deaths in the country, the Centre has asked all states to set up an emergency response sanitation unit (ERSU) on the lines of fire services.

In the sweeping South Delhi landscape largely comprising urban villages and unauthorised colonies, ask residents what concerns them the most and the reply inevitably is water supply, sewer lines and traffic congestion.

Two men employed as contractual workers died early on Friday after they allegedly got stuck underground while laying a sewer line in Uttar Pradesh's Noida, according to officials.

Hundreds of "manual scavengers" die each year cleaning out sewers in cities across India, but a machine unveiled on World Toilet Day today could help to end that tragic record. Thousands of people, especially below poverty line, are employed in one of the world's dirtiest jobs unclogging human waste from underground pipes.

The National Green Tribunal today slammed the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) over its submission that Haryana was responsible for the high levels of ammonia in the Yamuna water being provided to the national capital and observed that the river has been reduced to a sewer line in the city.

Three sanitation workers choked to death on toxic gases while cleaning a sewer line at BDS market in Sector 110 here, police said.

New Delhi: The death of 10 sanitation workers in Delhi has opened a pandora’s box their plight. Despite a ban on manual scavenging, sanitation workers are still made to go inside toxic sewers without any safety gear and with primitive tools to clean them. Forty-year old Rishi Pal became the latest casualty of the pervasive apathy when he died on ...

Five days into the incident, there has been no headway in the probe into the death of three men who were manually cleaning a sewer line in Lajpat Nagar, with the prime suspect, a private contractor, still at large.

Three sanitation workers died after allegedly inhaling poisonous gases while cleaning a drainage line without any safety gear in Gujarat's Bharuch district on Tuesday, police said.

Tracking microbes through a malodorous network of sewer lines led virologist Marc Johnson to the source of unusual coronavirus mutants.

Three workers and a rickshaw puller died after falling into a sewer line in Sector-16 of Rohini in Delhi, police said today.

The Delhi government has earmarked Rs 1,300 crore for development and construction works in unauthorised colonies during 2022-23 fiscal with Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia saying all such localities will have sewer lines by 2022 end.

Two sanitation workers died of suffocation, while another went missing after they entered a sewer line without wearing any safety equipment in Gujarat's Ahmedabad city on Thursday, police and fire department said.

Delhi BJP president Manoj Tiwari hit out at Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday saying he has shown his "in-sensitiveness" by attending a programme for inauguration of a sewer line project in Timarpur on a day 43 lives were lost in a fire incident in the city.

The Gurgaon traffic officer said that a sewer line running underneath Basai road and the water from the rain might have weakened the road causing it to cave in.

Aimed at preventing sewer deaths in the country, the Centre has asked all states to set up an emergency response sanitation unit (ERSU) on the lines of fire services.

In the sweeping South Delhi landscape largely comprising urban villages and unauthorised colonies, ask residents what concerns them the most and the reply inevitably is water supply, sewer lines and traffic congestion.

Two men employed as contractual workers died early on Friday after they allegedly got stuck underground while laying a sewer line in Uttar Pradesh's Noida, according to officials.

Hundreds of "manual scavengers" die each year cleaning out sewers in cities across India, but a machine unveiled on World Toilet Day today could help to end that tragic record. Thousands of people, especially below poverty line, are employed in one of the world's dirtiest jobs unclogging human waste from underground pipes.

The National Green Tribunal today slammed the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) over its submission that Haryana was responsible for the high levels of ammonia in the Yamuna water being provided to the national capital and observed that the river has been reduced to a sewer line in the city.

Three sanitation workers choked to death on toxic gases while cleaning a sewer line at BDS market in Sector 110 here, police said.

New Delhi: The death of 10 sanitation workers in Delhi has opened a pandora’s box their plight. Despite a ban on manual scavenging, sanitation workers are still made to go inside toxic sewers without any safety gear and with primitive tools to clean them. Forty-year old Rishi Pal became the latest casualty of the pervasive apathy when he died on ...

Five days into the incident, there has been no headway in the probe into the death of three men who were manually cleaning a sewer line in Lajpat Nagar, with the prime suspect, a private contractor, still at large.