Bioremediation works

Appetite for sewage

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

Just a lament

Water wise

A requiem for the Bagmati

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 …

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

Flush, but don't forget

Sewage stink

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

From water to water

Tourism deal

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  

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 …

Lake conservation plan flawed

In Court

According to report

One river dried, Agartala eyes another

Mithi in intensive care

Mumbai tries pumping oxygen into the river to keep it clean

Liquid debt

DIAL siphons off water