Carrying capacity of an area matters in case of industrial effluent discharge

Government must set discharge norms accordingly

Swamped by sewage

Environment awareness in India's small towns is an apathetic mess

Stinking blasts

Sinking city

Pumping out of the aquifer to supply drinking water is causing Mexico City to sink

`Industries easily find political protection whenever we are strict'

Uma Bharati, Union minister of water resources, river development and Ganga rejuvenation, speaks to Sushmita Sengupta on the challenges of …

Polluted to the brim

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)

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

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

Drinking water audit report by March 2011

In addition to conducting financial audits, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG), VINOD RAI, has decided to conduct a social and …

Delhi to get interceptor sewers

The flush, the city and the river

For the modern Indian city, the principle behind management of water and waste is a simple one: flush and forget. Not surprisingly, most cities …

The Ganga gets highly polluted after Kannauj in Uttar Pradesh: Report

The quality of Ganga water in the stretch from Kannauj to Prayagraj was categorised as being extremely deficient in dissolved oxygen

The path popped pills tread

Only 15 per cent of drugs are degraded by sewage plants

Kali Nadi is poisoned

It carries Meerut’s industrial waste, sewage and carcasses  

Court digest: Major environment hearings of the week (April 15-19)

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

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 …

Can we declare ourselves ODF, without managing the collected excreta?

A lowdown on how to clean India and keep it that way

Green move

Or political manoeuvre?

A brush of hair

Can help treat oily wastewater

How an environmental engineer used faecal sludge management to make his Telangana town clean

Faecal sludge and septage management could be an opportunity to re-consider future strategies regarding treatment of faecal waste

India needs to adopt nature-friendly sanitation technologies

Making design changes in toilets that conserve water and do not create sewage is the key to ecological sanitation

From water to water

When will coliform matter?

India fails to notify standards for treated sewage

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (November 6, 2020)

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