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Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (November 6, 2020)

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

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 28, 2020)

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

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 8, 2019)

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

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Recharging aquifers with treated wastewater is the only hope to meet the water needs of a growing urban population

Why excreta matters? Sunita Narain answers

Green fruits

Officials and industries honoured for their ecofriendly initiatives

Fatally fixated

First birthday

Although setting up of the EPA did result in policies to control pollution, political interference has blunted its effectiveness

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 18, 2019)

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

Urban shit: where does it all go?

India is staring at a big sanitation crisis and needs to reinvent its excreta disposal mechanism

The precarious geopolitics of phosphorous

Both nitrogen and phosphorous are essential to life. Lynchpins both to global food production, circulating through synthesis or export and then …

Ganga returns to its sluggish, dirty state

Kumbh over, freshwater release is discontinued; tanneries resume operations

Waste, by any other name...

Effluent treatment plants must meet water quality norms by March 31: SC

Justice Kehar directs state governments to initiate criminal and civil proceedings against industrial units flouting norms

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Sewage treatment wetland in making

IARI develops wetlands that treat sewage water for irrigation

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

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 …