Wastewater/Sanitation
- India: Land of many cell phones, but fewer toilets
- Rural women help Himachal fight open defecation
- Eco toilets at the Pollutetech 2010 exhibition in IISc draw attention
- 6 districts in Karnataka achieve near total hygiene standards
- Poor sanitation lets super bug thrive in India
- Over a million Indians engaged in manual scavenging in India
- We didn't chose this life, say scavengers in India
- It's short lived rehabilitation for scavengers in Ambala
- The Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council (NAC) to monitor abolition of manual scavenging
- Only 31% rural schools in India have toilets: WHO/UNICEF survey
Climate Change
Environment
- India pioneers global plan to green economy
- Conservation and religion join to save Ganges dolphin
- ISRO's help sought for preparing environmental database
- Moratorium extended on critically polluted industrial clusters: The environment ministry
- Time to focus on freshwater fish, is India listening?
Water and Industry
- India to serve as hub for imported US water
- Delhi govt ropes in TCS for water billing, meter installation
Urban Water/Drinking Water/Water Quality
- Water efficiency norms on the cards following the World Bank’s warning that water in 60 per cent of India’s aquifers will dip to critical levels in 15 years
- Students working to bring clean water to Kerala, India
- Hand pumps go solar in rural areas in Maharashtra
- Green Zones: The drought prone villages in Maharashtra improve following the implementation of the union government's water conservation project
- A Village in Tamil Nadu looks after its needs by diverting a wild stream to ponds in their village by constructing a small check dam
- Orissa becoming a dry State: Asian Development Bank (ADB) says
- Arsenic entering food chain through irrigation in West Bengal
- Humans vie with pigs for water, people forced to use water from a toxic stream in Bengal
- Two lakh residents in five blocks of South Dinajpur consume water contaminated with fluoride
- Groundwater near landfill sites highly contaminated in cities such as Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai, Srinagar, Thiruvananthapuram, Hyderabad
- Dengue cases in Ahmedabad increase 60% this year
- After dengue, it's hepatitis in Kanpur as the whole city grapples with insanitary conditions
Water Bodies/Rivers
- Troubled Vedanta loses appeal for controversial Orissa refinery: India's Environment Ministry rejects Vedanta's plan to expand the refinery
- Hundreds protest against Vedanta aluminium refinery in Orissa
- Arunachal Pradesh government’s failure to implement recommendations by the World Bank report leads to controversy over dams and hydropower projects in the state
- Assam: Anti dam protests get louder
- Water level in reservoirs across India at 74% of full capacity from the 10-year average of 67%
- Activists oppose plan to turn Coimbatore wetlands into parks
- Comprehensive plan to clean Ganga by 2020
- Community leaders in Uttarakhand stress the need to rope in locals in clean Ganga project
- Rising polythene pollution in the Ganga: UP government plans to enact specific anti-polythene law in the state
- 21 Water bodies costing Rs 41cr to be constructed in Dindori District, Bhopal
- Sewage chokes Sulur Lake Coimbatore
- Defunct reservoir to be revived soon in Madurai district
- IWRM draft road map finalised for Pampa river, Kerala
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