Delhi

According to WASH watch report (2017), over 150 million people in India live without access to safe drinking water. A majority of these people reside in underserved or unserved sections of the society that lives beyond the pipe. As a result, they are dependent on water sources that are not safe for drinking, leading to waterborne diseases. Diarrhoea continues to be a leading cause of death in children below the age of five. As per data, approximately 321 children deaths are reported every day in India (WHO, 2015). 

Not just surface water, pollution leads to deficit in dissolved oxygen in Ganga's riverbed sediment: Study

Forced eviction ordered for more than one million tribals and forest-dwellers

In a decade, only a quarter of centrally funded major to medium irrigation schemes completed: Report

HC orders demolition of illegal prawn gheries in Odisha wetlands

Launched in 2015, Project Raahat, an initiative by students of a management institute, Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies (SSCBS), Delhi University has been working on eradicating open defecation and providing safe sanitation in urban slums of India. They do this through innovations in management and operations of community toilet complexes and sensitising people on safe sanitary practices. The project is a part of Enactus, a global non-profit organisation.

Over 50 experts urge green ministry to make green clearance mandatory for inland waterways

Until a few decades ago, the Ganga flowed with gay abandon and descended with rapidity into the plains. Today the waters have withdrawn from its banks and downstream of the hydropower and irrigation projects that have hindered its flow, the Ganga is totally dry.

Most nations lack the political will to fight climate change: COP24

CWC allows preparation of DPR while TN objects to the Mekedatu project on the Cauvery river