Ganga's minimum flow notification too vague to be implemented: Scientists
The Centre’s notification aims to ensure that the river has minimum required environmental flow of water even after it is diverted by …
URBAN WATER HARVESTING SINGAPORE
Rain in a concrete jungle Short of water, Singapore harvests the rain that falls on most of its land despite industrialisation. The city has …
Holding water
The EK Panch Ek Talaab movement has ushered in a new era for the people of Madhya Pradesh's Shahdol and Mandsaur districts
RURAL WATER HARVESTING MADHYA PRADESH
1 + 1 = 11 People have responded overwhelmingly with money and voluntary labour to a government call to renovate water harvesting structures. …
Remembering Anil Agarwal — Forget Malthus: upside of population growth
Increasing population density can also lead to better community management of common property resources, if community property rights are …
Can polluting brick kilns be cleaned up?
India is world's second largest producer of bricks, but the environmental cost of producing cheap bricks is huge
How to plant trees for development
There is no economic value seen in forests, but there is value seen in the development project for which forestland is required
Greener Shades
The Indian pulp and paper industry reacts positively to the first Green Rating Project conducted by Centre for Science and Environment
Cook stoves: the politics and the quest for solutions
What should be the approach to deal with local health impacts of cooking fuels that would also inform India's national and global policy?
Short-lived pollutants: the other part of climate agenda
CO2 mitigation has to be conjoined with methane and black carbon mitigation to keep temperature rise below 2°C
Cause of worry for developing nations
Focus on black carbon may lead to developed nations shifting burden of tackling climate change to the less affluent
For common sense
Down To Earth articles on shahtoosh and Veerappan provoke comment. We decided to excerpt them. But first, the editor's rejoinder
Solo Performances
Besides the communities who have done exemplary work in the field of environment, several individuals are making a difference in the lives of …
Hamlets reborn
Although Bhaonta-Kolyala village walked away with the Down To Earth-Joseph C John Award, the judges came across several such communities worthy …
Awarded : Bhaonta-Kolyala
... for reviving the Arvari river, for showing that a healthy ecology and good water management mean prosperity, for proving that drought is a myth
Sanitary insights
January 2, 2017, is the 15th death anniversary of Anil Agarwal, founder of the Centre for Science and Environment and Down To Earth. This year, …
Ranjit Bharvirkar – Advisor, Regulatory Assistance Project
Ranjit Bharvirkar is an independent expert working as an advisor with the Regulatory Assistance Project since 2013. He has conducted research and …
Let’s talk
On February 24, Centre for Science and Environment raised the curtains for the Anil Agarwal Dialogues on green clearances. The two-day conclave …
REVIVING WISDOM
Rainwater is abundant in India. So is its mismanagement. This has led to a human-made water scarcity. The only way to solve modern India's water …
One missed opportunity, 330 million drought-stricken Indians
We could have been drought-proof by 2010 had we only harvested rainwater. Sixteen years later, India's villages are paying the price
Fuelling a debate
Ethanol is a clean and cheap fuel blend. But the Indian government is impeding the use of ethanol when it is callously promoting cancer-causing MTBE
India identifying, defining forests wrongly, say experts at Anil Agarwal Dialogue
The urgent agenda today is to reinvent forest management for the future; so that India can build a wood-based future, but still protect the …
Anil Agarwal Dialogue 2019: The order of change
To resolve environmental problems, we need a change in mindset, empirical studies, implementation, monitoring and follow-ups, says Justice Madan …
Ganga and the death of its crusader
Read Down To Earth’s upcoming issue for a detailed analysis of the current state of the Ganga
Madhya Pradesh government cracks down on Indira Sagar dam oustees
They were staging jal satyagraha to demand land compensation and reduction in reservoir water level