The World Rivers Day is observed on the fourth Sunday of September to increase awareness about rivers and to encourage their ...

The Water for Life Decade was started by the UN in 2005 in an effort to raise awareness of the importance of taking better ...

The biggest Ganges tributary is pure at the source, but by the time it passes through the eastern suburbs of New Delhi, the ...

The suggestion for a new route stretching from Okhla Barrage to Yamuna Expressway via the Hindon-Yamuna Doab is aimed at ...

In August, 21 of Delhi's 37 sewage treatment plants failed to meet pollution control standards for parameters like faecal ...

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to look into the decrease in water ...

Thousands of devotees in New Delhi bid farewell to Lord Ganesha, but many immersed idols in prohibited areas, contravening pollution norms and leaving the Yamuna river polluted. Authorities struggle ...

Microplastics (MPs) are a major threat to aquatic ecosystems because of their very small size, higher surface area, capacity to adsorb harmful pollutants, inert ...

New Delhi: The Delhi government will be hiring an agency for erecting barricades and deploying labourers to prevent the ...

The Delhi government plans to hire an agency to erect barricades and deploy labor to prevent Ganesha idol immersions in the ...

Due to the mindless dumping of waste, rampant river-grabbing by influential persons and reluctance of authorities to take appropriate steps, Bhairab river -- one of the major waterbodies of the ...