The great wetland grab

Guwahati allows construction on wetlands, but will not spare poor settlers on hills. A photo narrative by Sayantan Bera

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 …

Living on the edge

Coastal South Asia is fragile and vulnerable to climate change impacts. Yet, governments are setting up industries, ports and promoting tourism …

Seychelles gets ambitious with its waste

Government unveils master sanitation plan to protect environment

Science & Technology - Briefs

Science & Technology - Briefs

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

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  

Who messed it up?

Guwahati indicts poor settlers for flash floods, ignores damage on wetlands by construction work

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 …

Science and Technology - Briefs

The true cost of water

Kandy gets beauty treatment

Sri Lanka employs aquatic plants to clean up its heritage lake

CETP employee in Gujarat sacked for exposing illegal discharge channels

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (January 11, 2023)

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

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

Double whammy

Increasing pollution, depleting water table make groundwater in Kathmandu unfit for drinking

West Bengal discharges over 50% waste water untreated into Ganga

Report of CPCB calls for making sewage treatment plants functional, tackling waste discharged through drains to reduce pollution load on river

Environment Day: Green agenda for new government

Get the focus on environment and health, Mr Prime Minister