Climate Change
- Gujarat farmers fight against climate change: Adopt technology to conserve resources and maximize benefits
- Higher-than-normal temperatures in Ladakh pose a threat to its glaciers and thereby life in the region
- South Asia is the world's most climate-vulnerable: India ranks second
Environment
- India set to be first country to publish 'natural wealth' accounts
- India sets up 'green court' to make polluters pay for damages as it steps up its policing of the environmental laws
- India to be third largest CO2 emitter by 2015
- Conservation body teaming up with businesses in the Western Ghats to help restore the region’s ecology
Wastewater/Sanitation
- India: Product developed that can revolutionise in toilet technology and raise standards of personal hygiene in the country
- Healthier toilet initiatives in Satara district in Maharashtra lead to 100% success among villages in the district
- Plan to use incinerators to tackle sanitary waste in Mumbai
- Poor man’s diseases’ rampant in India: Poverty coupled with poor sanitary and hygiene conditions to blame, says the World Health Organisation
Water Bodies/Rivers
- Anti-big dam activists in Assam intensify stir to stop the construction of dams on the Bramhaputra river in Arunachal Pradesh
- Wildlife Board rejects Sikkim’s hydro project
- Maharashtra government approves the sand mining policy: permission from the gramsabha for sand mining and extraction made compulsory for contractors
- Mining blow to Western Ghats, Maharashtra: The state government approves 49 mining leases for excavating iron and bauxite ores in the eco-fragile Sindhudurg region
- Massive loss of lake water in Mumbai because of evaporation poses a challenge to BMC officials
- Farmers and activists from Punjab oppose the Punjab model of Green Revolution in the country
- High Court asks Uttar Pradesh government to issue notification banning use of polythene near the river Ganga
- Kolkata: Hooghly river saved from pollutants
- Sewerage choking Sarakki lake to death in Bangalore city
- Water weeds can play an important part in rejuvenation of lakes: Lake development Authority, Bangalore
- The endangered Yamuna river reels under the onslaught of Durga Puja immersions, despite pleas to spare a thought for the environment
- Rs.149.59-crore plant approved to clean Chambal waters
- Government objects to a water bottling plant in Silent Valley in Palakkad, Kerala
Groundwater
- Gandhi ashram in Wardha, protests against the pig iron plant nearby: Effluents from the plant pollute the groundwater in the area
- Ground water in Goa, safe to drink says a study
Urban Water/Drinking Water/Water Quality
- India would have a water deficit of 50 per cent by 2030: warns the ADB
- New national water policy in the pipeline
- Over 100 die of suspected cholera in Bastar, Chattisgarh in 4 months
- Waterborne diseases break out among flood affected people in Manipur valley
Floods/Rainfall
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