Fishy deaths

Municipal commissioner fined over pollution

Flush, but don't forget

Effluent treatment plants must meet water quality norms by March 31: SC

Justice Kehar directs state governments to initiate criminal and civil proceedings against industrial units flouting norms

Blind spot in Namami Gange

By 2019, when Swachh Bharat Mission comes to an end, some 30 million septic tanks and pits would have been dug along the Ganga. It's time the …

Why excreta matters

The great wetland grab

Guwahati allows construction on wetlands, but will not spare poor settlers on hills. A photo narrative by Sayantan Bera

Mithi in intensive care

Mumbai tries pumping oxygen into the river to keep it clean

Who messed it up?

Guwahati indicts poor settlers for flash floods, ignores damage on wetlands by construction work

Sewage stink

Many townships in Greater Noida are not connected to the sewage system

Kandy gets beauty treatment

Sri Lanka employs aquatic plants to clean up its heritage lake

Double whammy

Increasing pollution, depleting water table make groundwater in Kathmandu unfit for drinking

Behind polluted Indian river stretches, inadequate sewage treatment

Rivers and streams in 31 states and Union territories in India do not meet water quality criteria

Sunset over Udaisagar

The lake in Udaipur is under immense pressure and could die in the near future

Polluted to the brim

Delhi to get interceptor sewers

The flush, the city and the river

For the modern Indian city, the principle behind management of water and waste is a simple one: flush and forget. Not surprisingly, most cities …

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

From water to water

Concrete invasion

Colombo’s marshes cannot avert floods the way they used to. Construction is to be blamed

In Srinagar's footsteps?

Unplanned urbanisation is killing lakes that have saved Raipur from floods for over 1,000 years

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 10, 2020)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal

Why better policies are needed for sewage water use in thermal power plants

Thermal power plants within 50 km of STPs are required to use treated sewage; but there has not been any positive move on ground

Mired in sewage

Temple town Guruvayur adamant on dumping its sewage in backwater villages despite stringent laws, opposition

Bully among birds

A college campus in Soor Sarovar Bird Sanctuary flouts wildlife norms