March to Delhi to save Yamuna called off

Centre to release additional water into river; to construct canals for sewage in two years

The prosperous are the ‘real’ polluters

Economic growth takes a toll on the environment

Cleaning the Yamuna

No to reclamation

Muck is life

Now, activists seek personhood rights for a fifth river

An amicus brief was submitted to the Constitutional Court of Colombia on August 9 calling for recognition of the rights of the Anchicayá River

Will the new Yamuna River Project clean up the river?

A study by the University of Virginia on cooperation between India and Spain aims at rejuvenating the Yamuna as it flows through India’s …

Punjab can't scrap water-sharing agreements with states: Supreme Court

The court cancelled a law passed by the Punjab legislature, terminating a water-sharing deal with five other states

When a river weeps

Reduced to being a receptacle of household and industrial wastes and victimised by lopsided development, the Yamuna, Delhi's lifeline, is crying …

Saving Krishna's forests

This is the story of Friends of Vrindavan, a unique experiment in conservation, which brings to attention the important role that India's …

Did Delhi’s poor waste management add to severity of floods?

Solid waste collection is not regular and consistent in many areas

Simply Put: Delhi deluged

Yamuna breaches danger mark in Delhi

Development after Haryana released 8.28 lakh cusecs of water on August 18

DUMPING BANNED

Sumdwellers displaced for a cleaner Yamuna

Slums dumped out of sight

North India Deluge 2023: Yamuna crosses evacuation mark in Delhi; highest since 1978

Rising levels of water in the Yamuna are measured at three levels — warning level at 204.50 metres, danger level at 205.33 metres, and …

A river ruined: Our Yamuna is dying due to sand mining, say locals in Haryana

From flora and fauna to human residents, no one has been left untouched due to the wanton extraction of sand in the area

Yamuna highly polluted in many stretches beyond Delhi too

Scientists monitored the river’s pollution load at 12 points from Poanta in Himachal Pradesh to Pratappur in Uttar Pradesh

Bad water

Delhi recently faced a water crisis as drinking water supply was cut due to high levels of ammonia in the Yamuna

Yamuna pollution: green tribunal orders operation clean-up in Delhi

Order sets heavy penalties for polluters and asks for drains to be kept clear of encroachment

Panel recommends deadline for cleaning Yamuna banks of construction debris, garbage

Proposal to be submitted to National Green Tribunal for final order 

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (February 28, 2023)

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

Waste in news on May 4

A round-up of what's new in waste

Moral issue in a bathtub

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