Megadean project

Swamped by sewage

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

SHUT DOWN

Sinking city

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

Sound method...

...of cleansing the membranes used in filtration of polluted water

Clean electricity

Flush and forget

IIT Kanpur develops zero-waste toilets that reuse flushed water and recycle waste

Waste Mismanagement: An open secret

Researchers engineer landmass to treat sewage in wastewater

Dye filter

An improvised bio-sand filter helps Nepal dyers treat toxic effluents

The path popped pills tread

Only 15 per cent of drugs are degraded by sewage plants

Just a lament

Kali Nadi is poisoned

It carries Meerut’s industrial waste, sewage and carcasses  

Microplastics help viruses survive longer in water, remain infectious: Study

The result remained the same in every wastewater treatment scenario

Why ozonization to treat drinking water can be dangerous

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

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

Curfew in Kashmir, poor infrastructure put cancer patients at greater risk

When scheduled therapies are skipped, the treatment cycle of cancer patients gets upset

No more filth

A wastewater treatment system promises to rid Indian cities of disease and pollution

Distilled waste

A way to detoxify distillery wastes

Milk waste

A new filter reduces effluents from diary industries and also produces biogass

Green move

Or political manoeuvre?

No more dumping

Capital's hospitality industry will have to manage its waste

From water to water

Water crisis in South Africa: Damning report finds 46% contamination, 67% of treatment works near to breaking down

Monitoring and compliance were severely deficient, report shows

2022 too short, too far: Initial steps taken on tackling waste; long way to go still

Down To Earth recaps the primary environment, health and developmental news from 2022