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Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 13, 2020)

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

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Recharging aquifers with treated wastewater is the only hope to meet the water needs of a growing urban population

High court asks Haryana not to issue occupation certificates in some Gurgaon sectors

Seeks blue print for water supply to residents of sectors 68 to 80

Maharashtra braces for water emergency

No rains in October, coupled with high temperatures, have aggravated the crisis

Goa declared scheduled area to curb groundwater exploitation

Owners of bore-wells, tankers and wells asked to register themselves in two months

Water quality deteriorating in Kochi, reveals audit

Only 24 per cent households implement water conservation measures like reuse and recycling

Two talukas in Maharashtra face worst drought in memory

Experts blame it on poor groundwater management, lax attitude of government in providing irrigation facilities

Benevolent bacteria

Court Digest: Major environment hearings of the week (July 13-17, 2020)

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

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (October 21, 2020)

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

Gurgaon expansion halted

High court bars authorities from sanctioning new real estate projects to curb rampant groundwater exploitation    

Delhi's water supply skewed and mismanaged

Is the Haryana government really to be blamed for Delhi's water shortage? The answer perhaps lies in understanding the disparity in water supply …

Central Water Commission overestimates the country's usable water resources

Lessons in becoming water wise

S V Govardhan Das, a geologist, compiled the voluminous FAO report on participatory groundwater management programmes in the seven districts of …

Bhopal gas survivors' Delhi march delivers little

Local communities can manage aquifers better: FAO study

Two participatory programmes on water management in drought-prone districts of Andhra Pradesh help farmers conserve groundwater

Delhi groundwater, a deadly cocktail: CGWB report

Inadequate sewage treatment and disposal in the national capital territory is contaminating city’s groundwater

An atlas of India's groundwater aquifers

Maps in the atlas, released by Central Ground Water Board, indicate priority areas for water conservation and groundwater recharge

Mining effect: Aravalli gets new lakes

Deep digging in the mountain range for minerals has ruptured aquifers that now water mining pits

Ratlam’s toxic legacy

Hazardous waste kept in shut factories continues to contaminate groundwater

It rained hard in Delhi; what if all that water did not go waste

The volume of rainwater generated in the past week was almost 13 per cent of the demand for water in Delhi, estimated at 2,765 million litres per …

Chandola lake turns into dust bowl

City authorities look the other way despite court orders to conserve the lake  

When mining interests prevail over SC order

Uttar Pradesh where IAS officer Durga Shakti got suspended after taking on politicians involved in sand mining is not the only state to bypass …