Industries rampantly flout new groundwater rules 10 months after notification

Successful rollout will require massive capacity building, say experts  

Sinking low

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 10, 2020)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (October 22, 2020)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal  

Supreme Court dismisses plea to review order expediting interlinking of rivers

Central Ground Water Authority had said the order could amount to judicial overreach

Water conservation fee: improving or increasing the crisis?

We need to find newer ways to reduce and regulate over-extraction and usage, than promoting further extraction and overuse of this already …

‘Groundwater depleting fast in Indus, Ganga and Brahmaputra basins’

Shanti Swarup Prize 2020 winner Abhijit Mukherjee says Indian states with highest groundwater depletion rates were subjected to water-…

Jal Shakti ministry’s groundwater guideline shuns opportunity to address overall crisis

Complex groundwater systems cannot be controlled or predicted, but need to be better managed and made more efficient 

Gurgaon expansion halted

High court bars authorities from sanctioning new real estate projects to curb rampant groundwater exploitation    

DIAL siphons off water

Addicted to groundwater

High Court order fails to wean Gurgaon off illegal wells