Ganga bazaar

The Modi government has invested hugely in its mission to clean the Ganga, inviting companies and countries to offer their technological expertise.…

‘Recognise small-scale sanitation as a viable alternative’

Study reveals findings about small-scale Sewage Treatment Plants

Bioremediation works

Appetite for sewage

Bacteria feed on pollutants in sewage, kill odour, but are they a complete solution?

Swimming in sewage

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NGT scraps 2017 ministry note easing sewage treatment norms

The standards were diluted by the notification that permitted more pollutants than what was allowed under the 2015 CPCB draft

Mainstreaming co-treatment of faecal sludge for reducing pollution in Ganga

Excreta of 73 per cent of UP’s population is not managed safely. Out of this, 48 per cent is dependent on on-site sanitation systems

India’s sewage treatment plants treat only a third of the sewage generated daily: CPCB

Reuse of treated sewage can decrease the water demand from aquatic sources

Mmm sewage

Banned by bias?

SEABORNE SCOURGE

Waste of a move

Trapping pollutants

A new material could soon be used to remove pollutants from toxic wastes

Freeze the sewage

Canadian engineers develop a no-effluent discharge technology

Wasteful expenditure

Online infamy for water polluters

`Industries easily find political protection whenever we are strict'

Uma Bharati, Union minister of water resources, river development and Ganga rejuvenation, speaks to Sushmita Sengupta on the challenges of …

Sinking city

Pumping out of the aquifer to supply drinking water is causing Mexico City to sink

Swamped by sewage

Environment awareness in India's small towns is an apathetic mess

Drinking water audit report by March 2011

In addition to conducting financial audits, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG), VINOD RAI, has decided to conduct a social and …

River restoration is not just an ecological act

Despite decades of restoration efforts by a rich ensemble of state-development actors, cultural heritage votaries and rights activists, the …

The path popped pills tread

Only 15 per cent of drugs are degraded by sewage plants

Kali Nadi is poisoned

It carries Meerut’s industrial waste, sewage and carcasses  

Just a lament

How an environmental engineer used faecal sludge management to make his Telangana town clean

Faecal sludge and septage management could be an opportunity to re-consider future strategies regarding treatment of faecal waste