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Sewage treatment wetland in making

IARI develops wetlands that treat sewage water for irrigation

Domestic wastewater as fish food

Banning manual scavenging in India: A long, complex passage

Union government is set to introduce The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation (Amendment) Bill, 2020, in …

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 …

Rivers(e) effect

The Andhra Pradesh government is all set to purify Musi river, which has been given top priority under the National River Conservation plan, by …

Seychelles gets ambitious with its waste

Government unveils master sanitation plan to protect environment

Fish and a philosophy

A cooperative in Kolkata shows the way for urban sewage management

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Chance of revival for Bengaluru’s dying lakes

Karnataka pollution control board initiates project to divert sewage that fall into city lakes

A mixed bag

The Bangladesh government sends thin plastic bags packing, but has Dhaka seen the last of them? Pinaki Roy on the ban's efficacy

Can faith heal?

Billed as the largest gathering of humanity in recorded history, Maha Kumbh has commenced in Allahabad. Over the next few weeks, pilgrims will …

Neela Hauz may turn blue soon

DDA and DJB to restore the south Delhi pond by 2013

The way to clean sewage

Sewage treatment by filtration through a semi-permeable membrane has proved successful

Shut and dried

Why has private participation in the urban water sector failed to take off?

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (December 21, 2022)

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

More dirt on GAP

The much-hyped sewage treatment plants installed in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, under the Ganga Action Plan are proving to be ineffective. A report …

The lake colony

Call them the "lakers". Some 10,000 of them. Parts of the Dal (land and water) belong to them. And when they feel the need to make a …

The true cost of water

Sewage discharge in Ganga: NGT orders Uttarakhand PCB to take criminal action against officials concerned

Just half of total sewage generated daily in 13 districts treated properly before being dumped in river

CETP employee in Gujarat sacked for exposing illegal discharge channels

Excreta as resource: Looking at recovery, reuse of faecal sludge in UP

A critical link in faecal sludge and septage management value chain is reuse of by-products generated, which include treated water as well as …

CAG report reveals only partial truth about sewage discharged into Yamuna

It does not take into account sewage generated from areas that consume water from private borewells and private suppliers