Cuddalore flouts rules

New industries set to increase pollution in the area

No let-off till zero discharge

A requiem for the Bagmati

पंजाब ने बनाई पुआल से बिजली बनाने की योजना, प्रदूषण में आएगी कमी

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Counting the cost

Is Span motel's punishment commensurate with its crime? Experts wonder...

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Travails of a waterscape

Bullets for water

During a chance visit to Weliweriya, Sugandh Juneja wonders what took the Sri Lankan government so long to heed people’s complaints against …

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 lakes that worked as flood barriers are used mostly for …

Delhi to get interceptor sewers

Hindustan Insecticides to resume work amidst pollution charges

14 km from Pune, its footprint

Malwa is thirsty

Fading colours

Natural dyes, now popular in the West, are yet to make it big in the Indian market, reports R V Singh (Read full article)

The political economy of defecation

This is a story about Delhi and the Yamuna, about the relationship between one of India's richest cities and one of her most revered rivers. The …

The Ganga gets highly polluted after Kannauj in Uttar Pradesh: Report

The quality of Ganga water in the stretch from Kannauj to Prayagraj was categorised as being extremely deficient in dissolved oxygen

Farmers affected by Karur’s dye industry to exercise NOTA

Group has 1,750 farmers says pollution from industries has reduced them to poverty and political parties in power ignored their repeated pleas

Jharkhand High Court directs removal of coal dumps from Damodar river bank

Coal waste dumps of Purnadih mines polluting the river

Tilapia fish may have killed gharials in Chambal

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Water from waste

With water scarcity gripping many parts of the country, people are talking about rainwater harvesting, but none about wastewater, which can also …

Making India's mining sector socially and environmentally viable

A government committee wants regime change to facilitate private investment in mining. What it is oblivious to is the need for more regulation to …

Untreated effluents released in Mumbai rivers, industries flout norms: Report

The Ulhas and its tributary Waldhuni are among 53 of the most polluted rivers in Maharashtra

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Towards zero discharge

Two textile cities, Tirupur and Ludhiana, explore ways to stop effluent discharge into streams