Green move

Or political manoeuvre?

A brush of hair

Can help treat oily wastewater

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

Wetland wars

Fresh evidence

US biosolids regulations outdated

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 5, 2022)

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

Swachh Bharat Mission: Need focus on citywide sanitation, clean Ganga

Safe and equitable access to sanitation and ensuring behavioural change necessary for sustenance

Muckraking

Calcutta comes up with the "most efficient and ecologically benign method" of re-using municipal waste and sewage

Court Digest: Major environment hearings of the week (August 3-7, 2020)

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

Flush, but don't forget

Lake conservation plan flawed

In Court

After NGT asks for stringent norms for STPs — a new dilemma

Switching to new norms for all existing and upcoming sewage treatment plants (STPs) is going to be a mammoth task

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 …

Delhi's sewage

Aerobics for Yamuna?

Manual scavenging: Non-existent for govt, yet people die 30-ft under ground

The recent deaths of five manual scavengers again raises the question of how far will India let this problem go

Sewage pond called Mansarovar

To restore Shahpura lake, also known as Mansarovar, Bhopal Municipal Corporation must innovate its sewage treatment system

A matter of costs

In a poor country, cost-effectiveness has to be the byword for municipal wastewater treatment. And the upward anaerobic sludge blanket …

According to report

One river dried, Agartala eyes another

Mithi in intensive care

Mumbai tries pumping oxygen into the river to keep it clean

Take waste out of water

We cannot manage our rivers sustainably unless we fix our waste management system

Discern, then flush

Dual flush systems could help save a flood of water, proves research

Dressed down

Uphill task?

Sewage treatment plants in Mahabaleshwar, Panchgani