The 2018 floods in the Indian state of Kerala highlight an enduring paradox within the country’s water problems. Even as some parts of the country dea...
Antibiotic use in livestock and superbug risk
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is on the rise globally with the threat more severe in developing countries such as India. Antimicrobial resistance occ...
Why floodplains need to be protected
The Kerala flood of 2018 was 30 percent less intense than that of 1924 deluge, the biggest in Kerala’s history. Yet it caused a huge loss of lives, pr...
Footwear industry pollutes, villagers put their foot down
As per the regional plan 2021 chalked out by the national capital regional planning board in 2005, Bahadurgarh, a small town in Haryana is a part of t...
Simplifying defluoridation
Estimates suggest that about 10 million Indians are affected by fluorosis, a sickness associated with the consumption of increased concentrations of f...
Toxins on our plate
“The recent scare due to the detection of formalin-laced fish across Goa, Kerala, Assam, Manipur, Nagaland and Meghalaya points to a link between wate...
Indian villages look to Bhutan for water
A lot has been discussed about the acute water crisis in many parts of India. But who would have thought some villages in rural West Bengal have to de...
Pink city turns heat island
This summer, Jaipur’s temperatures are soaring upwards of 40 degree Celsius. Jaipur witnessed its hottest day on April 26 when a temperature of 43.2 d...
Village swims in desperation
Our village is also called the swimmers’ village because almost all of us including small children know how to swim. To learn swimming is not a luxury...
Treating sewage with plants
A radical new method is fast emerging as an effective and sustainable solution to increasing pollution in urban lakes. Called floating treatment wetla...