Contamination, Pollution and Quality

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.

Devise time-bound plan to address water contamination: Parliamentary committee

A five-year study conducted in the Sundarbans region has found that the rising water salinity level is threatening the habitat of Gangetic river dolphins. 

Waterborne diseases are diseases transmitted through

States resort to under-reporting of manual scavengers in the final verification stage

Himachal, Kerala, TN front-runners in NITI Aayog index on development goals

Out of 41 study points, the Ganga clean only at the Haridwar barrage location: CPCB

Industries to pay water conservation fee for extraction of groundwater 

Gujarat seeks financial aid of Rs 1,725 crore from the Centre for drought relief works 

Jammu and Kashmir is the only state in India where forest fires are reported almost every season. As per Indian state of forest report 2017, India saw a 46 percent increase in the number of forest fires in the last 16 years. Forest fires not only affect the flora and fauna of the region but they also pollute the environment and lead to climate change by increasing greenhouse gases.