Removing alien plants can save water: We measured how much
Positive effect of clearing alien trees higher in dry years compared to wet years, study predicts
Enabling state machinery to protect Delhi’s wetlands: Operationalising state wetland authority
Protecting Delhi’s wetlands will not only improve the environmental quality of the city but will also enhance local water resources
What is killing Uttarakhand’s small wetlands? Degraded Niranjanpur pond carves a live example
These waterbodies are neglected for their size and disappear even before they are documented
Healthy rivers: How DNA tool can help keep tabs on freshwater quality
DNA technologies have revolutionised the amount of data generated from a single river sample
Bengaluru water crisis: Is the southern metropolis heading towards Day Zero?
City founded by Kempe Gowda following same pattern as Cape Town in 2018
This UP lake continues to stink despite over Rs 300 cr spent on cleaning it
Lack of funds to operate sewage treatment plants around the lake, locals say only boating area cleaned regularly
Water’s value cannot be pegged to its price alone: UN report
The tremendous value of water cannot be confused with the concepts of ‘price’ and ‘cost’, the report said
US study finds hundreds of thousands of nanoplastic particles in bottled drinking water
Each litre contained 110,000 to 370,000 particles, 90% of them smaller than microplastics
How cost-effective technologies like GIS helped rural Sikkim rejuvenate springs
Water, food security for upcoming generations enhanced, say residents
Global South water-sensitive cities: Focus should be inequity in access, functionality and reusability
Cities of Global South cannot copy-paste frameworks and solutions emerging from the Global North
Water, Africa’s Gold: How poverty exacerbated Nigeria’s acute water crisis
Lack of clear government funding led to avoidable deaths from water-borne diseases like cholera
Fact or fallacy: RO companies in India are under the radar
Several such firms evade drinking water standards and avoid regulation
World Water Day: In Alwar, community-based water management, recharge key to solving crisis
The water crisis has limited the farming season to just a few months
Water of Ganga, 21 other rivers in Bihar unfit to even bathe in, finds state pollution control board
Six sewage treatment plants in Patna not fully functional, direct discharge of effluents in Ganga
Water has long been used as a tactical weapon in warfare
The pummelling of Gaza and the destruction of its water systems by Israel is only the latest instance of water being used as a weapon of war
Cauvery turmoil: Bengaluru city, Old Mysuru region hold total bandh; little or no effect elsewhere in Karnataka
Ten thousand people will go to Delhi on October 5 to drive home a point with the President of India on Karnataka’s claim over Cauvery water
Lessons from Bellandur: Governments should allocate more resources to monitor, protect lakes
They should focus on judicial utilisation of the water census reports and identify plans to restore the encroached and lost water bodies
UN 2023 Water Conference ends with over 700 commitments to make world water-secure
The event was attended by 10,000 participants at the UN headquarter and online, a statment claimed
UN 2023 Water Conference: Humanity draining its own lifeblood through ‘vampiric overconsumption’, says Guterres
Humans have broken the water cycle, destroyed ecosystems and contaminated groundwater, Antonio Guterres noted
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (March 7, 2023)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
Gandhian Sanitation: Ariyanendal’s streets flooded regularly with grey water; here is how they got cleaned
The Tamil Nadu village used MGNREGA and Panchayat funds to build individual and community soak pits
Water levels in important reservoirs consistently dipping: CWC data
Low storage can affect summer crops to be harvested by May-June as well as Kharif sowing
Activist protesting Odisha’s plan to divert river forcibly removed from protest site, in hospital
The Odisha government has filed 1,000 cases and arrested 24 people who ransacked a project to divert water from the Kharosotra river
‘Futures trading can bring efficiency to California’s water sector’
Michael Kiparsky from the University of California tells Down To Earth that fears about futures trading in water commoditising it are …
Why are farmers in Haryana leaving their fields vacant?
Excessive cropping of paddy has completely depleted groundwater in some places; in others, there is the problem of waterlogging