Industries rampantly flout new groundwater rules 10 months after notification

Successful rollout will require massive capacity building, say experts  

Writing on the wall: Groundwater exploitation is triggering subsidence in Indo-Gangetic plain

Groundwater levels are declining rapidly, apart from threat of building collapse

Court orders water supply scheme for Khurpatal

Growing construction in the hill station is drying up springs downhill

California finds huge groundwater reserves; experts urge caution

The study has led to a debate in the scientific community over the utilisation of these groundwater resources in the drought-hit state

Beijing is sinking due to excessive groundwater extraction

A new study has found a direct correlation between depression in the surface and pumping out of groundwater

75% of Kolkata’s groundwater is now brackish due to over-extraction: Study

Impact more in south Kolkata as innumerable new multi-storied buildings there run on groundwater

Uranium contamination in Punjab could be due to geological processes: study

The latest study argues that uranium leaching from the Himalayan granite rocks has possibly contaminated Punjab's groundwater

India will be losing groundwater three times faster in 2041-2080, finds study

Climate change will likely increase crop water demand; farmers may adapt by applying more irrigation  

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (May 15, 2023)

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

How paddy affects: Groundwater table in this Karnal village is now at 1,000 feet

Ardana farmers do not want to grow any other crops besides wheat and paddy since the government offers MSP only on them

New CAG report exposes wide gap between India's groundwater management regulations & implementation

77% packaged drinking water units in 18 states operating without no-objection certificates

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (October 25, 2019)

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 (March 31, 2023)

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 (April 25, 2019)

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 (August 10, 2020)

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

India’s farmers need financial motivation to check indiscriminate use of groundwater for irrigation

A paradigm shift in technology, agronomic practices and support to farmers is need of the hour

Residents’ lives in this Jodhpur basti revolve around water

Only downhill houses have water connections, others walk for several kilometres or are forced to use plastic pipes, pumps 

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (June 15, 2022)

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 (June 17, 2020)

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

Livelihoods of 3 bln people living near river systems under threat: Study

Damming, sediment mining, water diversions and groundwater extraction inhibit efforts to meet UN Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, says report