Are Indian megacities forgetting their rainwater endowment?

Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi mandated rainwater harvesting but are struggling for over a decade to implement the impactful structures on ground

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 26, 2024)

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

Australian researchers develop model to estimate groundwater recharge more accurately

To provide a more precise estimate, they used improved chloride deposition map with enhanced data, spatial coverage

South Africa’s crucial water supplies from Lesotho: What the six-month shutdown means for industry, farming, residents

If people start extracting groundwater, this could put additional strain on already stressed ecosystems

Groundwater quality can be improved even when mixed with nitrate-laden surface water: Study

Samples containing nitrate had higher microbial activity than those without it

Bengaluru water crisis: Their suggestions ignored for over a decade, two hydrogeologists prescribe an immediate solution

The cumulative impact of these measures would meet the water requirement of 14 million people in Bengaluru, without any dependence on groundwater

How to make invisible groundwater visible

Sustainable vision is key to balancing current needs and future demands

Writing on the wall: Groundwater exploitation is triggering subsidence in Indo-Gangetic plain

Groundwater levels are declining rapidly, apart from threat of building collapse

Alarming dip in groundwater levels in 11 Bihar districts: Report

Groundwater level in Katihar, Begusarai at 25 & 24 ft respectively

Alarm bells ring as groundwater levels dip in 10 districts in Bihar during monsoon

Nearly 48 per cent rainfall deficit till date in state

UN Groundwater Summit 2022 to help raise awareness on aquifer protection, sustainable use

Key takeaways will be presented at UN 2023 Water Conference in New York in March 2023

India had a deficit monsoon in 13 of the last 18 years

The country had its last surplus monsoon in 2013

Simply Put: To use groundwater, recharge

Distress signal

Karnataka's groundwater situation alarming, says report

Industries rampantly flout new groundwater rules 10 months after notification

Successful rollout will require massive capacity building, say experts  

As told to Parliament (December 18, 2023): CSE finds coal-fired power plants around Delhi not complying with emission norms

All that was discussed in the House through the day

Sinking low

Good monsoon pushes up Bihar groundwater level

All 38 districts in the state recorded an increase

World Water Day: Groundwater is an invisible resource

Calculating groundwater is a must for framing India's water policy

Groundwater dip: quantum, quality

Too much iron, nitrate, hardness, coliform in Bangalore

NASA releases new global maps mapping groundwater, soil wetness

Groundwater and soil moisture are crucial for irrigation and crop growth  

Seismic fault as recharge well

Inter-state agreement to replenish groundwater in 800,000 ha

Bihar staring at water crisis in summer months with groundwater levels declining

A new report has put 11 districts in the ‘water-stressed’ category

Water levels in free fall

Groundwater levels in the state in free fall

Dhaka's groundwater level at the lowest in 11 yrs