Coating is better than cure

A new way to filter polluting nano-particles out of the water  

The real magic beans

Drumstick seeds can clarify water up to 99.5 per cent

Newspaper pulp to treat zinc

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 …

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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  

Indian Railways' experimentation with eco-friendly toilets

Peanut shells can clean water

Researchers engineer landmass to treat sewage in wastewater

New filter to remove arsenic from drinking 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 (…

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (January 9, 2024)

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

Arsenic trap

Silver nanoparticles caged in aluminium can rid water of arsenic

Disincentive for defaulters

Proposal to tax erring industrialists for CETPs in Delhi

Parched Goa

Pipe dreams

Bangalore to get treated wastewater

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

Ideas to save government money

Ironing out a problem?

Water in acid lakes formed after the abandonment of mining activities can now be treated with a technique that manipulates the properties of iron-…

Water business

Grey water hits the roof

Plants can recycle it cheap and easy