All in a day's work

Grand Hyatt leads by example on wastewater recycling

Remarkably clean

Port cities set up by Dutch colonists had ingenuous drainage systems

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 15, 2023)

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 (September 1, 2023)

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

Besides illegal structures, tourist influx, focus on sanitation systems in Himalayas too: CSE

Most Himalayan towns lack sewerage systems; millions of litres of grey water seeps into the clayey, loamy soil, making landslides inevitable

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (May 5, 2023)

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 (October 17, 2019)

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 (September 20, 2019)

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

Rivers across the world have high levels of antibiotics

Researchers estimate presence of 14 antibiotics in rivers of 72 countries across six continents

Projects worth Rs 1,050 crore commissioned under Namami Gange in Patna

Union Minister Uma Bharti had pledged to speed-up the programme after recent criticism by the National Green Tribunal

Spurt in tourism spelling disaster for beaches in Sri Lanka

While the government sets a target of 2.5 million tourists in 2016, it is yet to focus on preventing beaches from becoming a dump yard

Filthy water, toxic air don’t make Rio Games environment-friendly

Large amount of untreated sewage continues to flow into Guanabara Bay, where the Olympic sailing events will take place

A requiem for the Bagmati

Coimbatore residents oppose setting up of sewage treatment plant

Threaten to sit on protest if the plant is not relocated

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

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

Why building sewage treatment plants in cities on the Ganga is a challenge

Flood-prone low-lying locations add to the difficulty

River conservation

Gaping gap

Official apathy results in the failure of GAP in West Bengal

A way to chew filth

A novel method to tackle sewage, and so, pollution

Rite? Wrong.

Ganga plumbs new depths in its journey through Varanasi

Get real Mr Baijal

No sewage system in place

Indian rivers will remain filthy because cities plan for water, not sewage

Untreated wastewater in developing countries: 14 billion a day and we don’t know where it ends up

This water causes diarrhoeal diseases that kill 800 children every day, mostly in India, Afghanistan and Congo

COVID-19: Finding clues to containment in wastewater

Australia, the Netherlands and Massachusetts have found traces of the virus in wastewater so far

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

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