North India Deluge 2023: A water plan addressing urban floods can pull Chandigarh out of troubled waters

Rainwater harvesting structures along the stormwater drains will enable the use of rainwater endowment along with preventing floods

World Water Day 2023: Nuapada switched to surface from ground sources to solve its problems of quality and quantity

After the launch of Jal Jeevan Mission in 2019, the district witnessed a drastic change in the sector of rural water supply. River water was …

World Water Day 2023: Dharwad revived traditional ponds to recharge its groundwater

Under Jal Jeevan Mission, groundwater sources are recharged and augmented by revived ponds that act as village-level groundwater-recharge …

World Water Day 2023: Ladana in Rajasthan made conjunctive use of ground, surface sources to solve its scarcity problem

The village dug three wells and constructed an overhead tank that can store both groud and surface water

World Water Day 2023: Traditional reverence helped preserve and tap North Sikkim’s springs

Facililated by the Jal Jeevan Mission, around 90 per cent of the households in the district now have functional household tap connections

Gandhian Sanitation: Political will, proactive sarpanch changed the sanitation scene in Mariyapuram

The village sarpanch formed self-help and youth groups to motivate the village residents; the Panchayat constructed 192 individual and nine …

Gandhian Sanitation: Ariyanendal’s streets flooded regularly with grey water; here is how they got cleaned

The Tamil Nadu village used MGNREGA and Panchayat funds to build individual and community soak pits

Gandhian Sanitation: Flood-prone Sahibganj uses height and bacteria to manage its waste

Flood-prone blocks of Sahibganj in Jharkhand use biodigester toilets; these comprise a series of concrete tanks that contain sheets with an …

Gandhian Sanitation: How Kolhapur combined toilet design, biogas to treat faecal sludge

Almost 75 per cent of the district depends on properly designed septic tanks; around 25 per cent of it uses biogas-linked toilets at …

75 years of people’s power: How this Haryana Gram Panchayat managed its grey water through ponds

The pond-based system treats wastewater by combining three different biological processes — anaerobic, anoxic and aerobic — and using …

75 years of people’s power: How these two villages in Chhattisgarh solved their grey water problem

Ghugwa and Patora villages in Durg district used household- and community-level soak pits to prevent waterlogging

75 years of people’s power: Telangana’s Ibrahimpur tackles grey water stagnation, mosquito breeding

Village is entirely dependent on groundwater for its potable and non-potable uses and this has helped make their water source sustainable

75 years of people’s power: Tamil Nadu’s Nattathi village shows the way to grey water management

Over 35% of the households had kitchen gardens in their backyards and they began to use grey water to irrigate the gardens

प्रदूषण से न नदियां बचीं और न भूजल

प्रदूषण से नदियां बेमौत मारी जा रही हैं। अब तक किए समस्त…

क्यों अधूरे रह जाते हैं मनरेगा के काम

विशेषज्ञों का कहना है कि ग्राम पंचायतों की क्षमता की कम�…

विश्व जल दिवस पर विशेष-1: कैसे बुझेगी प्यास

22 मार्च को विश्व जल दिवस है। इसे देखते हुए डाउन टू अर्थ प्…

बजट और हर घर जल मिशन, कितना दूर कितना पास

शहरों के 2.86 करोड़ घरों तक सुरक्षित पानी पहुंचाने के लिए इ…

Jal Jeevan Mission Urban launched in Union Budget 2021-22

An outlay of Rs 50,011 crore was announced for the urban and rural water supply scheme, over 4 times the revised budget for 2020-2021

Shocking irregularities found by CAG among toilets constructed in govt schools

Toilets were non-existent, partially constructed, did not have water, were not hygienic and had many other shortcomings

लॉकडाउन में नदियों के पानी की गुणवत्ता में खास सुधार नहीं हुआ : सीपीसीबी

एनजीटी के निर्देश पर मार्च से अप्रैल के बीच देश की 19 प्रम�…

No major improvement in river water quality during COVID-19 lockdown: CPCB report

The pollution board monitored the quality of the country’s 19 major rivers between March and April

It rained hard in Delhi; what if all that water did not go waste

The volume of rainwater generated in the past week was almost 13 per cent of the demand for water in Delhi, estimated at 2,765 million litres per …

COVID-19: Wastewater surveillance can help discover spread, says scientist

Surveillance through wastewater-based epidemiology can help the country in its fight against the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, …

Swachh Bharat Mission Phase II guidelines released

Safe toilets, with well managed black and grey water, are the need of the hour, particularly in rural areas

Why NGT’s calls on restoration of water bodies is need of the hour

National Green Tribunal’s 2019 order asking states to identify, protect and restore water bodies underlines the urgency to save them