Local travails

Problem: Tourist influx too large; earnings flow downhill; Status: Residents forced to share meagre facilities with tourists; Challenge: Regulate …

On road to sustainability?

Many nice words, some money but no direction for real change

Lessons from two cities

Pune aims to become a zero-landfill city by 2015. With a range of solid waste management options, the target does not seem too ambitious. …

Creation of Greater Bangalore will strain the city's resources

JNNURM: a Nehruvian farce

Public private prank

Delhi to get interceptor sewers

SC agrees to subsidise five waste-to-energy plants

Urban renewal: more talk, less infrastructure

14 km from Pune, its footprint

Dar-es-Salaam’s waste management needs a complete revamp

The waste crisis at Pugu dumpsite in Tanzania’s economic capital is rising and urgent interventions are needed

Why environmental degradation is a big health risk

Down To Earth and Centre for Science and Environment jointly release Body Burden 2015, an annual health report

Environmental degradation draining Pakistan’s economy: survey

Increasing urbanisation is causing air, water pollution

Science and Technology - Briefs

Waste dumpsites choke Chennai

Mr Modi, Wish us a Happy Environment Day

Many a slip

Can India meet the 2012 deadline to provide safe drinking water to all rural homes?

Muddy Water

‘Periods don't stop for pandemics, neither should our activism’

Srilekha Chakraborty, the woman behind menstrual health campaign #PeriodsPeCharcha, talks about introducing changes in ways menstrual health is …

Water is critical to sustainable development, says UN report

Increasing ubanisation and industrialisation are widening the rift between demand for and supply of water

CHICKEN OUT

Cleansing chronicle

THE SANITARY CITY: URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE FROM COLONIAL TIMES TO THE PRESENT·Martin V Melosi·John Hopkins University Press·Year&…

Property industry in trouble in Punjab

A look at world urban population

Boom

Problem: Terrain forbids sprawl as in cities in the plains; Status: Alarming population density (people per sq km); Challenge: Policy question is:…