Sewage

Ganga water quality has worsened due to untreated sewage, govt should have prioritised clean-up project, says chief of NGO

Sankat Mochan Foundation, which has been monitoring the quality of the Ganga water for over three decades, found in its latest study that levels of faecal coliform bacteria had risen substantially, while levels of dissolved oxygen had dropped.

Dal Lake in distress: Kashmir's iconic attraction is facing a slow death by sewage as politicians look the other way

Though the Jammu and Kashmir government claims it makes all efforts to preserve the Dal Lake in Srinagar, there is little proof of effective implementation on the ground of cleanup projects.

Sewers could be making the water quality of India's great Ganges river worse

The urgency to invest, not only in sewers, but in the treatment of sewage has never been greater.

Conservancy workers' two decade-struggle highlighted in photo series by Sudharak Olwe

Conservancy workers — manual scavengers employed with urban municipalities — clean (often with their bare hands and few or inadequate tools) excreta and other waste, blocked sewers and drains. Since January 2017, one person has died every five days, on average, while cleaning sewers and septic tanks across the country

Pakistan General Election goes 'down the drain' as Karachi politician lies in a puddle of sewage to ask for votes

To highlight the unhygienic sewage system in his locality, a candidate from Karachi decided to ask for votes by sitting in a puddle of sewage water.

Sewage cleaning robots were such a success in Kerala that five more are coming to the state

The startup was among the participants of the two-day Huddle Kerala conclave, which concluded here 7 March as their stall at the expo drew much attention.

After Cape Town, Bengaluru set to face major water crisis: Atrocious state of Bellandur Lake a result of apathy by authorities

In the 1970s, Bengaluru boast of about 285 lakes; today there are just a little over 190, most of which are polluted with raw sewage.

Fight against nitrogen pollution in the environment could soon witness a paradigm shift

The task force was named Indian Nitrogen Group (ING) which has experts to review the problem of pollution posed by reactive nitrogen.

Damage to Yamuna floodplains: NGT directs Delhi, Uttar Pradesh govts to remove debris in three weeks

NGT has directed Delhi and UP government to remove the debris lying on flood plains of Yamuna, noting indiscriminate dumping of waste is a direct source of pollution

Niagara Falls: Foul-smeling sewer sludge turns water black; alarms businesses, tourists

The water near the base of Niagara Falls turned an alarming shade of black before tourists' eyes.