Green campus done right: This Assam university sets an example
How Assam Don Bosco University weaves climate action, preservation of flora and fauna, management of water resources in its green initiatives …
THROWBACK: How China’s ‘sponge cities’ aim to re-use 70% of rainwater
Even as Indian cities become increasingly water-scarce, they get flooded — as Mumbai is getting now — by a few days' intense rainfall.…
Court digest: Major environment hearings of the week (March 25-29)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
Not just groundwater, flouride has poisoned agricultural soil, crops in Bengal
Farmers in Bankura and Purulia rely on groundwater, heavily contaminated with flouride, to cultivate crops
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 26, 2023)
Capacity building for water conservation needs: A young mind at work
How an architect implemented rainwater harvesting and greywater reuse projects in urban and peri-urban areas of Maharashtra and Gujarat
Green tribunal notice to Delhi Metro Rail on rainwater harvesting
Petition says metro rail corporation can harvest up to 87.3 million litres water annually
As told to Parliament (February 6, 2023): India produces around 30 million tonnes of recycled steel
List of companies that produce recycled steel in India is not maintained centrally, says Faggan Singh Kulaste, Union minister of state for …
Panchayats to spend Rs 1.42 lakh crore on water and sanitation
Spend 60% grant on water and sanitation: 15th Finance Commission recommends to rural local bodies
Infosys to switch to renewable energy, go carbon neutral
The global information technology services company, Infosys, headquartered at Bengaluru, plans to become carbon neutral and shift completely to …
How an urban planner undertook green recovery in Telangana’s 72 ULBs
Extensive mapping, designing of parks with detailed cost estimates and implementation frameworks were prepared as part of the project
These mobile weather stations can help cope with floods, landslides
Sri Lanka’s indigenously developed device could help other developing nations, too, deal with climate impacts
Arsenic attack on Chittagong
People in the port city depend on arsenic-contaminated groundwater in absence of safe water supply
Water managers remain lukewarm to use of information communication technology
For mass use, any ICT tool has to offer a familiar interface and clear value proposition
Drought brings new meaning to South African companies
Cape Town’s diversification of supply from surface water to groundwater, desalination and water recycling has also filtered into the …
Sri Lanka to harvest rainwater to boost irrigation, power
The new project will begin this month and end in 2024
Over 20,000 water bodies freed from encroachment in Bihar for rainwater harvesting
The state lost over 100,000 ponds in three decades, mostly to development projects
Resident Welfare Associations can contribute big to conserve water
A case study from JR Nagar RWA in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh
As told to Parliament (April 6, 2022): Many parts of India 2-4°C hotter than normal
All that was discussedin the House through the day
Tamil Nadu's temple tanks hold key to water recharge
But authorities cement tank beds and fail to restore water inlet channels