Cash clogged
Will Delhi’s ambitious sewerage plan help clean the Yamuna?
When Vishnu sleeps
New plan, old problem
The proposed Sewerage Master Plan 2031 that promises to end Delhi's drainage troubles underestimates the wastewater volume of the city
As told to Parliament: Assam, Bihar, Odisha get flood hazard atlases
All that was discussed in the Houses through the day
COVID-19: Sewage study shows nearly 6 lakh infected in Hyderabad
Around 2 lakh people actively shedding viral materials, the study found
STPs in 3 Punjab towns lying defunct: NGT monitoring committee
Poor performance of sewage treatment plants due to delayed payment by municipal bodies, monitoring committee report to NGT
Curse of excess
Once a parched city, Jodhpur is today facing a deluge
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (February 22, 2024)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
Doubts dog toilet-building campaign
Over half a billion, which is nearly half of the country’s population, defecate in the open
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (October 8, 2020)
Court digest: Major environment hearings of the week (Feb 15-22)
COVID-19: Hits & misses of Centre’s advisory on water supply, sanitation
A review of MoHUA April, 2020 advisory on safe management of water supply and sanitation
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (May 3, 2019)
Karnataka government seeks more time to clean Bellandur Lake
Officials say that one month is too short a period to finish cleaning as they need to redirect the waste currently being dumped in the lake
NGT scraps 2017 ministry note easing sewage treatment norms
The standards were diluted by the notification that permitted more pollutants than what was allowed under the 2015 CPCB draft
Court digest: Major environment hearings of the week (April 15-19)
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (November 6, 2020)
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 28, 2020)
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 8, 2019)
The town farmers built
Why excreta matters? Sunita Narain answers
After NGT asks for stringent norms for STPs — a new dilemma
Switching to new norms for all existing and upcoming sewage treatment plants (STPs) is going to be a mammoth task
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 18, 2019)
Urban shit: where does it all go?
India is staring at a big sanitation crisis and needs to reinvent its excreta disposal mechanism
Effluent treatment plants must meet water quality norms by March 31: SC
Justice Kehar directs state governments to initiate criminal and civil proceedings against industrial units flouting norms