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 …
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
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 …
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
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
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
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
Net solutions
Restoring waterbodies and making traditional fisherfolk stakeholders in fisheries development may save this fast disappearing tribe
A river hard done by
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Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (May 2, 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 (October 1, 2019)
Government still chasing toilets, but that won’t solve sanitation issues: experts
The government is still correlating the number of toilets built with open defecation-free status of villages
Namami Gange nudges ahead as government launches new initiatives
The Ganga Eco-Task Force and village-level initiatives to manage sewage see light of day
Conflict over ganga
Over 2,500-odd kilometers this river meanders, flowing through the lives of over 500 million people, enabling a vast basin spread over Nepal, …
In Parliament on March 9, 2017
From illegal mining, Ganga's pollutant and their regulation, to the disposal of solid waste, many environment-related issues were raised in the …
The river of Ayodhya is choking to death
Over 3 lakh diyas were lit on the Sarayu's banks on Diwali despite the fact that the river's waters are not even fit for bathing
Ganga's minimum flow notification too vague to be implemented: Scientists
The Centre’s notification aims to ensure that the river has minimum required environmental flow of water even after it is diverted by …
Troubled oil over waters
A severe oil spill in the Russian arctics has bulldozed the environment and created resentment among the local people. As the government reels …
Fishing, agriculture impacted by burning river in Upper Assam: Residents
They alleged the administration was slow to respond to the crisis as the affected area had been supporting anti-CAA protestors
Sutlej river pollution: Millions on verge of health risks, NGT raises alarm
NGT has directed Punjab and Rajasthan governments to submit quarterly compliance reports to Jal Shakti ministry about remedial action being taken
Women water activists gather in Kathmandu to exchange notes
About 100 women from Asia, Africa, the Americas and Europe attend the first Women and Rivers Congress