News Snippets

Active threat

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 …

Bad bug

Pine beetles make water quality dip in North America

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 …

"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 …

Ulcerous!

A bacterium found in water wells causes ulcers

Fluorosis menace

Clean payment

DEEP TUBEWELLS

SAVING THE RIVER

Fit to drink

Tap water norms on the anvil

Shocktail!

Mumbai's water too dirty to drink

Green sports

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

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

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 …

Bloodthirsty arsenic

Damages white blood cells

Insurance against dirty water supply

Make water utilities accountable to public first, say activists

A fluid paradox

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

It's political

Water scarcity in a Faridkot village