Lakes, Ponds and Wetlands

Swachh Survekshan 2018: Indore, Bhopal and Chandigarh emerge as India's top three clean cities

Srinagar's prime tourist attraction, Dal Lake, is no more the scenic beauty it used to be. It's turning into an eyesore, thanks to sewage discharge and weed growth.

Ahead of monsoon, workers made to clean stormwater drains filled with sewage in Hyderabad

Entering its second year, the Graduate Program of Water Science and Policy 2018 at Shiv Nadar University envisages a multi-disciplinary classroom, engagement and content delivered by some of the best minds globally – experts on water who have worked on ground realities, made policies and initiated change.

Entire stretch of the Ganga to be mapped using GIS technology 

Delhi government opposes in-principle approval for two landfill sites on Yamuna floodplains 

Gopal Nishad, a fisherman in his early 40s, is frustrated that there is hardly any fish left in the Mahanadi’s basin at Pitaibandh due to the lack of water in the basin. This basin is located near Rajim-Nawapara in Chhattisgarh, the proposed site for the fourth anicut on the Mahanadi.

Environmentalists fear new CRZ rules will favour infrastructure over coastal ecosystems

Environment ministry issues draft Coastal Zone Regulation notification

Lokesh Verma, a farmer from Nainital’s Chanfi village, says this is the third year in a row that he is bearing losses in agriculture. “I have lost around Rs 2 lakh and there’s a debt of Rs 70,000 to pay off. I grow strawberries, guavas and peas in my 15 bighas of land, but there is not enough water in the hills to irrigate crops properly,” he says.