India, Aug. 27 -- NGT directed the Ministry of Jal Shakti to examine whether spring water used by industry on private land should be regulated as groundwater.

The matter concerns Mohan Meakin's Kasauli distillery, where a joint committee found one borewell and use of spring water without a logbook.

An applicant told NGT that DUSIB was shirking its responsibility to provide sewage collection and drainage in Delhi's jhuggi-jhopri clusters.

Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board told NGT that sewage from unsewered areas continues to enter Veeraraghavan lake in Tambaram, where water hyacinth has spread across nearly three-fourths of the water spread area.

Does spring water come under definition of groundwater, asks NGT

The National Green Tri...