Contaminated cocktail

Sloppy STPs

Causing pollution in Yamuna

Microbial fuel cell

A device that helps generate electricity from human faeces

Barrage of sewage

Kanpur will have a Rs 412.44 crore Ganga drain by 2031

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CSE alumnus impact: How a green entrepreneur helped restore Kham river

Principles of a decentralised wastewater treatment system was put to use to bring about transformation

How a state mission brought clean water to every household in villages with supply crisis

The project exemplifies how methodical intervention can end supply problems even in hydro-geologically complex areas

COVID-19: WHO recommends Regeneron antibody therapy for high-risk & seronegative patients

Price and production problems should be addressed at the earliest, the health agency says  

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (October 5, 2023)

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

What do animal rights have to do with human wellbeing? Everything

Animal rights are important because all animals have inherent worth and because human rights and a healthy planet matter

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (February 16, 2023)

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

Scientists identify vulnerabilities in over 700 cancer cells that could fuel new treatments

The new medicines could even treat types of cancers that are resistant to available therapies

Zero Waste Cities Challenge: Guwahati has 2 winners for work on waste models

Only a fraction of waste generated in Guwahati is recycled; the remaining ends up at dumpsites or is littered around

Reluctant to upgrade

Textile dyeing units would rather extract groundwater than treat and recycle wastewater due to the costs involved and a lack of adequate policy …

New method for controlled release makes cancer drugs less toxic to healthy tissues

This is a hydrogel-based treatment method releases drugs slowly increasing its efficiency

Is your state using water efficiently? Govt's new assessment tool will find out

NITI Aayog will launch Composite Water Management Index to assess and improve states’ performance in efficient management of water resources

Cleaning India’s polluted rivers

More than 38,000 million litres of waste water enters the major rivers, water bodies and even percolates into the ground every day

Cancer's other face

In what reads like a mystery novel, Christofferson proposes the theory of deranged metabolism and not genetic mutation as the likely cause of cancer

After long denial, Haryana recognises Najafgarh lake as water body

The NGT has now directed Delhi government to take appropriate steps in accordance with law for revival of the lake

Humble filter makes a comeback

Traditional bio-sand purifier can filter arsenic which most commercial water purifiers fail to do

The disposal debate

Sewage disposal is a big problem in Mumbai. The blueprint for a project to improve waste management in the city is ready but its effectiveness …

Kolkata’s hellhole

CETP employee in Gujarat sacked for exposing illegal discharge channels

DIAL siphons off water

People do pay for latrines