Wealth in waste

Sewage can be used to make the desert green

Treating sewage

Bangalore lakes on lease

Excreta's economy a true experience

Court digest: Major environment hearings of the week (April 15-19)

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

Veerbhadra Mishra on Ganga Action Plan

Veerbhadra Mishra heads the Sankat Mochan Foundation, an NGO at the forefront in trying to revive the Ganga's fortunes in Varanasi. A man who …

When will coliform matter?

India fails to notify standards for treated sewage

Spent force?

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

Back to the source

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

The town farmers built

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...

US municipalities to abolish rights of corporations

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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