Taste for waste

Sewage, industrial effluent is the future

Reuse, recycle

Or relocate

Raintapping

A government diktat doesn't harvest

Tanker economics

Sign of things gone horribly wrong

In desperation

Chennai must incessantly seek water

All bottled up

An exclusive survey shows Chennai's reliance on private tankers and bottled water is increasing

Struck by acidity

Water-stressed in India: Thoothukudi farmers suffer from salinity

Several residents in district's Sathankulam block have shifted to nearby cities 

Dead Sea getting shallower and saltier

While the sea is drying up at a rate of 3.3 feet every year, lost water is increasing its relative salinity

Heated debate

Turtle deaths

Fresh water is turning saltier, flags study

Freshwater salinization can poison drinking water and increase chloride concentrations in it over time, the study underlines

Desert wine

Grapes grown in Israel's saline region are more aromatic

'Kuwait could face serious climate change impacts over the next few decades'

Down To Earth speaks to Salman Zafar, founder of West Asian environmental group, EcoMENA on the green challenges facing the tiny Gulf nation of …

Punjab is a bleak example of India’s groundwater crisis. Here is how

In the wake of the UN report showing alarming levels of depletion, DTE analysed the groundwater crisis in the state  

Polluted rivers pose risk to human health in three continents

Water pollution level has increased in Asia, Africa and Latin America, putting aquatic flora and fauna under extinction threat

Why Chennai floods are a man-made disaster

An analysis shows that in just four decades, urbanisation in the city increased by almost 20 times