Are Indian megacities forgetting their rainwater endowment?

Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi mandated rainwater harvesting but are struggling for over a decade to implement the impactful structures on ground

24x7 makeshift clinics, testing food, water at gatherings: How Karnataka is trying prevent cholera outbreak amid rising heat

State reported 33 cases of cholera this year, most in April; health department to conduct awareness campaigns, ensure supply of medicines, clean water

DTE Coverage: Bengaluru Water Crisis 2024

Why the city that abounded in lakes and rivers went waterless

Parched Garden City

How Bengaluru’s water crisis is of its own making 

Why is Bengaluru city facing the worst water crisis in its nearly 500-year history?

The situation might get worse as the next monsoon is still 100 days away

Bengaluru water crisis: Citizens raise questions on flourishing tanker business as municipal supply dries up

Water tanker operators often fail to produce adequate lab test results confirming water quality

Bengaluru water crisis: BWSSB announces 20% water cut to bulk consumers; identifies areas bearing the brunt 

Companies, hospitals, crematoria & graveyards, schools, railways and airport to take a hit  

Joshimath dispatch: Tales of woe emerge from a dying town; locals squarely blame administration

Many of those affected in Joshimath have suffered displacement for the second time

Bengaluru water utility to launch door-to-door drive to check illegal borewells

Residents continue to drill for borewells, unaware that registration is now mandatory

Maldives faces water crisis after fire at its sole desalination plant

India, China and Bangladesh extend potable water supplies to the low-lying archipelago

Lakes do the disappearing act

Several lakes in Hyderabad have shrunk or vanished due to encroachment and pollution

Simply Put: The thirsty crow

Bengaluru water crisis: Is the southern metropolis heading towards Day Zero?

City founded by Kempe Gowda following same pattern as Cape Town in 2018  

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 3, 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 (August 3, 2022)

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

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 31, 2020)

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

New plan, old problem

The proposed Sewerage Master Plan 2031 that promises to end Delhi's drainage troubles underestimates the wastewater volume of the city

Chance of revival for Bengaluru’s dying lakes

Karnataka pollution control board initiates project to divert sewage that fall into city lakes

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

Delhi groundwater, a deadly cocktail: CGWB report

Inadequate sewage treatment and disposal in the national capital territory is contaminating city’s groundwater

Arsenic attack on Chittagong

People in the port city depend on arsenic-contaminated groundwater in absence of safe water supply

Buriganga chokes on pollutants

Political will and community participation is needed to revive the dying river that gave life to Dhaka

Bengaluru’s lakes go bad as authorities deny responsibility

Agara, Bellandur and Varthur lakes are facing the dual threat of pollution and encroachment