South Asia

Carnivorous algae

Polluted river

Saving the river

"There is no fish"

The poisoning of India's rivers has left nothing for traditional fisherfolk

Green move

Or political manoeuvre?

Wisdom regurgitated

For the poster child

Sumdwellers displaced for a cleaner Yamuna

Slums dumped out of sight

News Snippets

Friends of the river

Clearing the Ganga, is their mission even if it means fishing out scores of bodies from the river

Bad water

Delhi recently faced a water crisis as drinking water supply was cut due to high levels of ammonia in the Yamuna

Three rivers are now legally people – but that's just the start of looking after them

Giving legal rights to non-human entities doesn’t mean much if they can’t be enforced

Ganga is a living entity, says Uttarakhand High Court

The only other place in the world to have given rights to a river at par with humans is New Zealand

Cauvery faces manifold threats in Tamil Nadu

The delta is up against a subsidence threat due to lack of sediment flow from upstream and seawater ingress

Yamuna highly polluted in many stretches beyond Delhi too

Scientists monitored the river’s pollution load at 12 points from Poanta in Himachal Pradesh to Pratappur in Uttar Pradesh

86-year-old Gandhian GD Agarwal fasts unto death to save the Ganga

Noted Gandhian and environmentalist GD Agarwal has fasted many times before to save the Ganga. But this time he will give up water too if the …

Amazonian dirt roads are choking Brazil's tropical streams

The fragile waterways—and the spectacular fish that live in them—are paying a high price

Net solutions

Restoring waterbodies and making traditional fisherfolk stakeholders in fisheries development may save this fast disappearing tribe

Toxic streams

The ball rolls

Flowing poison

GHANA

Slow murder

Catastrophe avoided