DTE Coverage: World Water Week 2023

Down To Earth highlights various facets of the issue of water management in India

Poisoned Punjab: DTE reports from state’s villages wracked by water pollution

Cancer and a host of other diseases afflict people living in the Fazilka, Ferozepur, …

DTE coverage: Over 700 commitments made at UN 2023 Water Conference

The conference in New York City aimed at making the world more water-resilient

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 …