How DTE covered World Water Day 2023
A national workshop held in Lucknow by CSE on ‘Sustainable and Inclusive Sanitation …
World Water Day: How Indian villages used 15 years of MGNREGA
A look at how the world’s largest public wage programme has helped fight water …
How CSE trained professionals to address sanitation problems in India and abroad
Here are some inspiring stories of how alumni from CSE’s School of Water and Waste …
In-depth: Climate change and water
In a world driven by climate change water, as a public resource, has become crucial. …
Water-stressed in India: Reports from the districts
Down To Earth hot the ground at water-stressed districts that were adjudged the …
How to resolve Karnataka water crisis
At the peak of Karnataka’s water crisis, the state’s deputy chief minister, G …
With half a million new farm ponds, should farmers be worried about deficit monsoon?
In the last 12 years, the MGNREGA has created at least 46 new water harvesting structures …
Last few drops
Taps will run dry in the South African metropolis of Cape Town in two months. Hundreds of …
To meet 2017 target, one million rural households need to be connected with piped water supply every day
Community involvement is missing and so is the interest towards maintaining sustainability …
Mission Madness
In their desperation, officials are adopting coercive ways to stop open defecation. …
Naini lake is depleting, but can we undo the wrongs?
Experts believe that obstruction in the subsurface recharge and increased abstraction of …
Lake Chad's forgotten crisis
Ecological degradation in the Chad Basin has triggered Africa's latest humanitarian crisis. …
Blind spot in Namami Gange
By 2019, when Swachh Bharat Mission comes to an end, some 30 million septic tanks and pits …
Warring over water
While issues like Cauvery water sharing and Indus Treaty figured prominently in 2016, other …
Tax rebate to promote rainwater harvesting
Various municipal corporations in the country are offering concession of property tax in …
World ocean assessment warns of excessive pressures on ocean resources
The report has compiled environmental impacts of all human activities on oceans and warned …
Why better sewage management in Chennai will help fight floods
Down To Earth Editor Sunita Narain explains how the city's three rivers and 320 tanks and …
Kerala's protected, yet polluted lake
Though Kerala's Ashtamudi lake is a Ramsar site, government bodies and industries continue …
Ganga bazaar
The Modi government has invested hugely in its mission to clean the Ganga, inviting …
Dehydrated state of America
As California enters the fourth year of the worst drought it has seen in over 1,200 years, …
Sewage pond called Mansarovar
To restore Shahpura lake, also known as Mansarovar, Bhopal Municipal Corporation must …
Left to dry
Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation hopes to arrest the city's dipping groundwater by reviving …