In deep water
A national programme on restoring waterbodies is mired in flaws
Desperate measures
Update
Water wisdom
Strife on salt lake
From the blurbs
Common sense when nature calls
World Wetlands Day 2024: Before we save them, we have to know where they actually are
Correct mapping and boundary demarcation are critical steps in the wetland restoration process
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (November 14, 2023)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
Book Excerpt: And quiet flowed the Yamuna, from Lal Kot to New Delhi
Harini Nagendra and Seema Mundoli write about how intertwined the Yamuna is with the story of Delhi
Olympic swimming in the Seine highlights efforts to clean up city rivers worldwide
The growth in awareness of the important role that blue spaces play in human health and wellbeing comes alongside a revival of the popularity of …
Rice husk biochar removes fluoride from groundwater, prevents drinking water contamination, new study shows
Prolonged fluoride consumption in higher concentrations in drinking water can cause dental fluorosis, skeletal fluorosis, kidney diseases, arthritis
How Delhi’s resettlement colonies have set a new standard for peripheralisation
Delhi’s resettlement colonies lie within the framework of a ‘planned city’; yet they receive a treatment separate from planned …
Watch how MGNREGA help villages beat poverty in Bundelkhand
Meegni & Himmatpura were troubled by water scarcity like several other villages of the region
Perennial rivers turning seasonal a disturbing trend
We need to work on plans to restore our plain-fed rivers and all other aspects which affect river flows through robust institutions and …
Can Ministry of Jal Shakti save Indian rivers?
The new ministry has its work cut out as old ministries’ track record in cleaning and saving river basins hasn’t been great
Turning barren land into a food forest
Permaculture practitioners Narsanna and Padma Koppula have turned a barren piece of land in Telangana's Pastapur village into a productive farm …
129 tonnes of fish die due to lake contamination; Telangana springs into action
Laboratory tests confirm presence of chloromethane in water, a solvent used in the pharmaceutical industry
Centre sets up committee to improve management of water resources in Northeast
The high-level committee will identify gaps in the existing mechanism and submit a plan of action by June 2018
`Indian Ocean has been the central theatre of human existence'
Economist, environmentalist, urban theorist, Sanjeev Sanyal wears many hats. He has written four bestselling books on Indian political history …
Lake Chad's forgotten crisis
Ecological degradation in the Chad Basin has triggered Africa's latest humanitarian crisis. It's time, the basin countries looked beyond the …
Is there a future for wetland birds of Sippighat?
Despite ecological disturbances such as high noise levels and presence of debris, wetlands birds are a sight to behold here
Mars' water connection
Channels and valleys observed on the Martian surface and meteorites of Martian origin indicate that once there might have been water on the planet
Farce on wrong flows
The issue of interbasin transfer of water in India has got muddied by controversies and official indolence