Arsenic control

West Bengal, severely affected by arsenic in its groundwater, takes slow but steady steps to deal with it

Double whammy

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

Mercury rises early

Heat waves follow a dry spell in Orissa and West Bengal, killing 80 people in April. Dust storms take Assam by surprise and Malwa scrambles for …

Punjab's depleting groundwater stagnates agricultural growth

Diminishing returns

Emergency

Chennai, crippled by water crisis, is also a metaphor for what Indian cities are experiencing in sourcing and managing the most precious natural …

POISONOUS WATERS

Curse of copper

After fouling 10 Madhya Pradesh villages with heavy metals and acid, HCL is set to expand its mine

A home-grown drought

Monsoon this year has failed most of India, causing drought in even well-irrigated and rainfed areas. Ravleen Kaur reports how our food …

Wahtech

But what has the state done?

Wah India

Arsenic

The dark zone

When Down To Earth correspondents nidhi jamwal and d b manisha started filing their reports on the problem of fluoride and arsenic in groundwater,…

Renal emergency

Sri Lanka’s north-central region has been facing a health crisis for two decades. A large number of people in the region suffer from …

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