Fit to drink

Tap water norms on the anvil

Shocktail!

Mumbai's water too dirty to drink

Green sports

"Calcutta is sifting on a time bomb "

DIPANKAR CHAKRABORTI, director, School of Environmental Studies, Jadavpur University has done significant work among people affected by Arsenic …

Water stress to increase, but so will water-related jobs, says UN report

According to the report, the lack of sufficiently skilled labour in water and sanitation has contributed to the estimated leakage of 30 per cent …

Water shortage in the home of glaciers

Residents in the UP Himalaya, abundant in rivers and glaciers and covered by a piped water network, are experiencing a water shortage caused by a …

There’s a hidden source of excess nutrients suffocating the Great Barrier Reef. We found it

Previously unquantified groundwater inputs are the largest source of new nutrients to Great Barrier Reef

‘Harvesting water from air can help reimagine water infrastructure for humanity this century’

Founder of Bengaluru-based startup explains how sustainable the technology is

A fluid paradox

International aid agencies and local people do not agree on what tastes like real water

Filtered effluents

Australian scientists have developed a new technique to treat industrial and farm effluents

SOUTH KOREA

Deep cleansing

Rainwater harvesting can purge pollutants too

Foul water

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (February 26, 2024)

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 (January 24, 2024)

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 13, 2022)

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

Researchers design solar-powered water desalination device for rural India

Electrodialysis reversal system removes salinity of groundwater in villages by consuming 70 per cent less energy than RO

Bottled water norms not in place

On April 1 this year the revised norms for bottled water should have come into force, but didn't. By missing the deadline -- which ironically …

Water ATMs were introduced in Ghana — and are changing the way people can access this vital resource

Powered by solar energy, most water ATMs are designed to operate 24 hours a day

New light on water disinfection

With a simple modification, ordinary tubelights can be used to provide clean drinking water.

South korea

Beware flurosis is zeroing in on you

Water harvesting and conservation methods can turn the tide against the disease

Toxic rain

Unclean barter

Trading in water pollution proposed

Arsenic-free

Scientists in Sweden are propagating laterite treatment for the removal of arsenic from groundwater in the Bengal Delta plains