Your future food will be grown with waste water

If used properly, waste water can provide important nutrients for plant growth and act as a replacement for mineral fertilisers

Decentralised wastewater solutions the need of the hour for India

With the country hurtling towards a water crisis and treated wastewater a possible alternative, using models that are different from the …

COVID-19 clues in a community’s sewage: 4 questions answered about watching wastewater for coronavirus

Wastewater monitoring could inform all sorts of public health intervention and disease surveillance programmes

Managing greywater: A Haryana village shows the way

Pond-based greywater treatment systems in Kurak Jagir village in Karnal district, Haryana, absorb greywater 

Patiala village uses unique method to treat wastewater

The wastewater treatment plant in Dhingi village uses the Seechewal method to use treated wastewater for irrigation and prevent further …

New study maps how much energy, nutrients and water are locked in world’s wastewater

Efficiently treating wastewater can help meet SDGs: UN-backed research

African countries need to clean up their act on industrial pollution

Enforcement of water and environmental laws must be in place to protect the environment

‘Wrap, trap, zap’: New strategy to kill antibiotic resistant bugs in wastewater

Microspheres wrapped in graphene oxide help destroy antibiotic-resistant bacteria and free-floating antibiotic-resistant genes in wastewater plants

CPCB flags railway stations on green parameters

The Central Pollution Control Board assessed 36 stations or 5% of the major stations in India

Mainstreaming co-treatment of faecal sludge for reducing pollution in Ganga

Excreta of 73 per cent of UP’s population is not managed safely. Out of this, 48 per cent is dependent on on-site sanitation systems

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COVID-19: Can wastewater help in tracking outbreak in India

Wastewater research can help determine how much the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) occurs in the Indian population