Oxen power

Unique way to desalinate water

A way to chew filth

A novel method to tackle sewage, and so, pollution

Water from sugarcane

The best solutions are always simple. This is well exemplified by the Natural Sugar and Allied Industry, a sugar factory located near Latur, …

Ground works

Wastewater treatment plant that also functions as a garden

Contaminated alum in Mumbai's drinking water

Green sports

Deep cleansing

Rainwater harvesting can purge pollutants too

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

Unclean barter

Trading in water pollution proposed

Going slow

Sifting success

Indian refinery ready to become a zero effluent discharge plant

The idea of a clean city

could well become a myth by 2007. More than half of the world' s population by then would be urban dwelling. The urban ecological footprint would …

Clogged up in Delhi

More than two years ago, the Union ministry of urban development and poverty alleviation (moud) issued a notification making wastewater recycling …

Delhi government to set up Rs 10.3 crore water recycling plant in Bawana

At present, Bawana water treatment plant lacks a recycling plant leading to acute wastage of water  

Tulsi Fights Fluorosis

Fluoride levels in drinking water in 196 districts of 19 Indian states are much higher than the maximum concentration of 1.5 parts per million (…

Arsenic trap

Silver nanoparticles caged in aluminium can rid water of arsenic

Disincentive for defaulters

Proposal to tax erring industrialists for CETPs in Delhi

How to minimise chlorination's adverse health affects

Compromising with a necessary evil: this is literally true for chlorination -- the most widely used technology for disinfecting drinking water. A …

Valley of despair

Unrestrained chromite mining takes Sukinda valley to the edge of an abyss

In short

Water ATM

Sarvajal makes clean drinking water accessible to people

Arsenic control

West Bengal, severely affected by arsenic in its groundwater, takes slow but steady steps to deal with it

Singapore taps its water

The Southeast Asian city-state strives to end its dependence on Malaysia for water

The true cost of water

Win against waste colonialism: US group pledges restorative action after taking back ‘harmful’ report

A 2015 report by US-based Ocean Conservancy blamed 5 Asian countries for plastic waste