New Age Approach
We need to go back to the drawing board to reinvent a green toilet. If necessary, to go back to our past and find technological innovations that …
Drowning In Human Excreta
Sanitation for urban India means building flush toilets and linking them to sewer systems. But the price of chasing this dream is leading to an …
Can we save Ganga?
The Ganga is getting political attention. What does it take to clean the river? Down To Earth team travels to the most polluted stretch of the …
Living on the edge
Coastal South Asia is fragile and vulnerable to climate change impacts. Yet, governments are setting up industries, ports and promoting tourism …
Centre and state join hands to clean the Yamuna
A Special Purpose Vehicle has been created to enable officials to clean the river on the lines of the Sabarmati riverfront model
Draft CAG report slams Andhra pollution control board for negligence
The report blames the board’s inaction for unchecked pollution of water bodies and deteriorating air quality
Delhi groundwater, a deadly cocktail: CGWB report
Inadequate sewage treatment and disposal in the national capital territory is contaminating city’s groundwater
River restoration is not just an ecological act
Despite decades of restoration efforts by a rich ensemble of state-development actors, cultural heritage votaries and rights activists, the …
The precarious geopolitics of phosphorous
Both nitrogen and phosphorous are essential to life. Lynchpins both to global food production, circulating through synthesis or export and then …
The lake colony
Call them the "lakers". Some 10,000 of them. Parts of the Dal (land and water) belong to them. And when they feel the need to make a …
The political economy of defecation
This is a story about Delhi and the Yamuna, about the relationship between one of India's richest cities and one of her most revered rivers. The …
Pollution pays
Whenever the issue of how to end pollution is raised, it hits a block: technology. Take the case of air pollution: among other things, the issue …