Just a lament

The great wetland grab

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

Who messed it up?

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

Double whammy

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

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 …

Concrete invasion

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

Cry of a river

A little known river in UP is struggling for survival. Untreated effluent, delayed action to blame

Cash clogged

Will Delhi’s ambitious sewerage plan help clean the Yamuna?

When Vishnu sleeps

Curse of excess

Once a parched city, Jodhpur is today facing a deluge

Stench in my backyard

As Kerala cities dump their waste in the countryside, people in the villages hit back. An unresolved civic problem of decades compounded by …

Water stress

With about 4 per cent of the water resources of the world, India should have been a water-adequate nation. However, in 2011 India turned into a …

Flush, but don't forget

Why excreta matters

Sewage stink

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

From water to water

Bully among birds

A college campus in Soor Sarovar Bird Sanctuary flouts wildlife norms

One river, two origins

Industrialists are trying to push the origin of the Nag river downstream to capture its upper stretch for real estate business

Inconvenience regretted

Heavy damage

Mining ban around Sasthamkotta lake

Conservation plan in the works for Kerala's biggest freshwater lake

When will coliform matter?

India fails to notify standards for treated sewage

A civilisational loss

For more than two decades, Huta Ram Baidya has led the Save Bagmati River campaign. An affable, octogenarian activist and Nepal’s first …

Fishy deaths

Municipal commissioner fined over pollution