India: Interlinking the SDGs through Electricity Access
By WILLIAM BRENT India has been a global leader in providing electricity access to its population. A recent IEA report found that 500 million of the 1.2 billion […]
Water
Centre turns to ‘sewage-eating’ microbes to treat Ganga water at 54 new sites
By Vishwa Mohan NEW DELHI: As urgency grows to show results for its Clean Ganga mission, the Centre is turning to bacterial bioremediation techniques to cut down the […]
PepsiCo India to offer healthy sips with Aquafina’s new vitamin-fortified water
By MEENAKSHI VERMA AMBWANI NEW DELHI: PepsiCo India is betting big on its brand Aquafina to tap into the fast growing value-added hydration and functional beverages segment, […]
India’s water-logged farmers try out revamped flood insurance
By Huizhong Wu MADHURPATTI, India: When heavy rains swept through this village in northern Bihar in August and September, so much floodwater covered farmers’ fields that […]
The world’s next big environmental disaster
By KRISHNA POKHAREL and PREETIKA RANA The Yamuna River that flows through this ancient city has helped sustain some of India’s greatest empires. Hindu poets celebrated […]
Pollution a giant killer, and not just in the air. Watch out for toxins in water, soil too
By Sanchita Sharma Pollutants seeping into air, water and soil caused more than one in every seven deaths worldwide in 2015 Air, water, chemical and soil […]
Indian businesses adapting to water scarcity: Survey
Businesses in India are adapting to water scarcity. Most sectors are feeling the heat of recent droughts, leading to increased costs of raw materials, says […]
India must regulate tubewells as water becomes scarce with urbanization
By Rina Chandran MUMBAI: India must better regulate the use of water-sucking tubewells as access to water becomes increasingly fraught amid rising temperatures and dwindling resources, […]
India’s rising problem: Urban floods
By Asit K. Biswas Politicians blame climate change but ignore need for planning and infrastructure to ease seasonal flooding that wreaks havoc in cities Tropical storm […]
90% of rural houses to get piped water by 2022, says President Ram Nath Kovind
President Ram Nath Kovind said access to water was a byword for human dignity and providing safe drinking water to people in 600,000 villages and […]