Pollution not under control

Pesticide residues in bottled water

Packaged drinking water or natural mineral water is everywhere. It is now available in pouches, cups, bottles and bulky transparent jars. It is …

Instant quality check of rivers

Electronic sensors to monitor pollutants in Yamuna, Ganga

Pepsi plant indicted for polluting groundwater in Kerala

Default drinking water

'Corporate Responsibility' has died a fancy death at the altar of public relations. A recent chemical analysis of branded packaged drinking water (…

Rainwater harvesting aids tsunami-hit Sri Lankan villages

Radioactive gas in drinking water

Kolkata reconnects with its riverfront

Heavy metals polluting Kolkata's groundwater

Water woes at Allahabad's Kumbh mela

How pure are their claims?

Market for water purifiers booms, but consumers cannot be sure of quality in absence of regulations

Alembic plant in Gujarat asked to shut down

Polluted to the brim

Prayers for a little

Rivers’ flows must be maintained to protect the services they provide, but India has no legislation  

Changing basic nature

Countries move from labs to seas to study the implications of ocean acidification

Why Ganga Action Plan is a pipe dream

Disinfectants pollute water

Voices from Making Water Everybody's Business Talking about water

Water is bound to dominate the agenda of the country's politicians and planners in the future Though ignored for years by the political …

Emergency

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

Making India's mining sector socially and environmentally viable

A government committee wants regime change to facilitate private investment in mining. What it is oblivious to is the need for more regulation to …

Pollution pays

Whenever the issue of how to end pollution is raised, it hits a block: technology. Take the case of air pollution: among other things, the issue …

A few questions

Industrialisation bringing acid rain to India

EU agrees on cleaner rivers, lakes

Concrete invasion

Colombo’s marshes cannot avert floods the way they used to. Construction is to be blamed