India

Resilience of cities depends on effective functioning of complex infrastructure networks such as water, energy, sanitation, transport along with physical infrastructure such as housing, hospitals and educational institutions.

The journey of the Water Quality Management (WQM) Course into a movement with over 1500 WaterQualityChampions’ (WQC) across the country is curious and exciting. The course is enabling participants into “Water Quality champions” that even the course creators did not anticipate. Hence, it demands a closer introspection - into what went behind.

Significant drop in the volume of Ganga river water and groundwater in the river basin, reveals WMO report

Although India attained self-sufficiency in food production, realising zero hunger, good health, and no poverty remains a challenge.

Farmers in India continue to face production risks due to climate abnormalities, resulting in low productivity and fluctuating agricultural incomes.

What was your water consumption today?

If I were to quickly calculate this, I would add up the litres of water I drank, the water I used up in cooking, washing, cleaning, and bathing; and quickly tell you that I used up around 80 litres of water. Your total would also be somewhere in the ballpark.

MoEF grants green clearance to multi-development projects in Greater Nicobar Island

India joins the newly formed Mangrove Alliance for Climate (MAC)

Since 2019, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in-collaboration with Partners for Resilience (PfR) have developed and implemented scalable Ecosystem-based Disaster Risk Reduction (Eco-DRR) models, working a