The Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation (MDWS) is now following the footsteps of the Ministry of Water Resources and River Development and Ganga...

IN 2002, when Ashtamudi lake in Kerala was brought under the Ramsar convention, it was expected that this would stop the lake’s deterioration....

Bengaluru, the city of lakes, is making headlines for all the wrong reasons. A few weeks ago, the city’s Varthur lake made news when huge masses of...

Ever since he came to power at the Centre a year ago, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who had been elected from Varanasi, has added his own brand of...

Call it his farsighted idea to restore the health of a lake or plain blunder, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao is determined to clean up...

The desert state of Rajasthan has for long struggled with the problem of open defecation. Census 2011 says about 80 per cent households in rural...

The water table of Ahmedabad, like in most cities in the country, is dipping at an alarming rate, with the levels in many regions plummeting to more...

Narendra Modi is all set to preside over the fifth meeting of the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA), which was set up in 2009. With prime...

RESIDENTS OF Kararia, Barkhera, Pathani and Shahpur villages in Madhya Pradesh’s capital district Bhopal will soon lose the vegetables they have been...

UDAIPUR, the historic capital of Rajasthan’s storied Mewar region, is known as the Venice of the East for its lakes. Maharana Udai Singh II founded...

Akhilesh Yadav, chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, has laid the foundation of the Trans-Ganga project on December 11. Yadav has promised a modern and...

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has recently directed the municipal bodies of Delhi and other authorities responsible for maintenance of stormwater...