10 highlights from the State of India's Environment report

How India performed on key environment and development issues in 2016

India and Germany sign agreement for cleaning Ganga

Germany will contribute Rs 22.5 crore to the three-year-long project

Toxic legacy

Nitrate pollution in California could affect 260,000 people

Polluted lagoon

Water supply faulted

CHECKING POLLUTION

Pollution destroys crops

Reeds to the rescue

An ecofriendly way of treating polluted wastewater holds promise for rural India

RIVER CONTAMINATION

Proposal opposed

Activists and residents protest plan to install pvc plant

Natural dumpsite

Inconvenience regretted

China toughens punishment for water polluters

Every drop counts

Look where the world stands as it celebrates Water Day on March 22

MAKING ACCOUNTABLE

CONTAINING CONTAMINATION

Cess, minister

Even the polluters paid up. But not Gujarat's government

'No, no uranium'

Will the government lend its ear to Andhra public hearing?

South Asia

Do it when crops don't

Wahtech

But what has the state done?

Wah India

Arsenic

See it’s easy

Simple ways to detect arsenic and fluoride contamination in water