Dirty states

Only five states generate more than 63 per cent of the total wastewater in India as they lack treatment facilities, says a recent study

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (May 30, 2024)

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NGT’s Rs 3,800 crore fine on Telangana is the biggest one yet over waste disposal

West Bengal government was fined Rs 3,000 crore in September 2022

Dying lake

Mucky transfer

Bangalore's sewage contaminates Tamil Nadu's water

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (February 22, 2024)

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

Polluted rivers pose risk to human health in three continents

Water pollution level has increased in Asia, Africa and Latin America, putting aquatic flora and fauna under extinction threat

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (October 8, 2020)

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

We looked for South Africa’s ‘missing’ plastic litter. This is what we found

South Africa is ranked as the 11th worst offender in terms of land-based sources of litter entering the sea

Doubts dog toilet-building campaign

Over half a billion, which is nearly half of the country’s population, defecate in the open

Drained

WASTEWATER TREATMENT FOR POLLUTION CONTROL·Soli J Arceivala·Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Company Limited, New Delhi, 1998

Flushing down its traditions

A good society knows how to clean its rubbish. But instead of setting an example for the world through its traditional handling of human excreta,…

Water pollution hot spots identified in Indian rivers

Data is misleading and underestimates pollution, allege scientists

Researchers engineer landmass to treat sewage in wastewater

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (February 9, 2024)

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

Water stress

With about 4 per cent of the water resources of the world, India should have been a water-adequate nation. However, in 2011 India turned into a …

Wealth in waste

Sewage can be used to make the desert green

Treating sewage

Bangalore lakes on lease

Excreta's economy a true experience

Heavy damage

Mining ban around Sasthamkotta lake

Conservation plan in the works for Kerala's biggest freshwater lake

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 …

Mr Modi, Wish us a Happy Environment Day

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