Working to cleanse the Ganga

Several government and voluntary agencies are involved in the onerous task of cleaning up the country's best-known river.

Series of ash barges sinking raises concerns on Sundarbans ecology

Seeping fuel oil and fly ash could harm aquatic flora and fauna in the area, they warn

Simply put: Arunachal's pristine river Kameng turns into a dumpyard

Immersing toxics

TAKING ON THE TANNERIES

THAILAND

Cleaning the Yamuna

THAILAND

Sunday warriors

Residents of Lucknow have taken up the task of cleaning the river Gomti

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Muck is life

World Rivers Day: Does a river exist for us only when it floods?

It’s important to spread river education in its totality, before dams and canals take over ‘rivers’ in the perception battle 

Punjab Assembly Elections 2022: The rivers that gave Punjab its name, are dying; But is anybody paying attention

The Sutlej and its tributaries in Punjab are extremely polluted; but politicians have only kowtowed to corporate interest

Why India needs to change the way it manages water resources

Most of the water planning and development in the country has been done as per administrative boundaries rather than by using river basins as the …

The poisoning of the Tungabhadra

Once again, shoals of dead fish were beached on the banks of the Tungabhadra, in Karnataka's Dharwad district, earlier this year. Most people …

Purifying the Ganga

"The story of the Ganges, from her source to the sea, from old times to new, is the story of India's civilisation ..." - Jawaharlal Nehru

When a river weeps

Reduced to being a receptacle of household and industrial wastes and victimised by lopsided development, the Yamuna, Delhi's lifeline, is crying …

Coal mining, waste discharge, encroachment: River Bhogdoi has been dying a slow death

The inter-state river is one of Assam’s most polluted

Will we be responsible for our own extinction?

South Asia

Carnivorous algae

Polluted river

Poison alarm

Lessons for Ludhiana

Ludhiana will have to fight for its right to be clean

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