Uttar Pradesh

There is a severe crisis plaguing the rivers in India.

NGT gets tough over wetland notification

UP, Maharshtra and Karnataka seeks more funds from Centre to tackle drought

Maharashtra government to choose between revenue or drought-struck people

Centre releases DPR on forestry intervention for Ganga river

Sirkoo, a 39 year old woman in Bundelkhand, Uttar Pradesh, walked 8 km every day to fetch water. As a woman, it was obviously her responsibility to ensure the household's water availability. This put an additional stress on her already depleted health as well as time--until she decided to tackle the issue head on.

Despite India's rapid economic growth in recent decades, open defecation rates continue to be very high. This presents a unique puzzle for scholars of development because other regions where people are poorer, literacy rates lower, and drinking water more scarce, are better off that India when it comes to open defecation.

CPCB finds Coca Cola plant in Hapur pumping toxic water into a pond

Government to install community water purification plants in water toxic zones

In December 2015, more than forty years after it was conceived, the Government was set to launch India’s ambitious 30-link river interlinking project linking 37 rivers.