river pollution

Once shaping cities and legends, India's rivers now run dry, silent witnesses to climate change and neglect. What led to their decline, and what does it mean for our future?

Radhesh Agrahari runs Golden Feathers, a startup which converts chicken butchery waste including feathers into a ‘wool-like’ fibre and handmade paper.

Lemnion Green Solutions, a startup inspired by duckweed's potential for wastewater treatment, facilitates the ecological rejuvenation of nullahs and rivers.

Meet these real life heroes who went the extra mile to protect India's rivers on the International Day of Action for Rivers.

For five years now, real life hero Chandra Kishore Patil from Nashik has been guarding the Godavari by stopping people from dumping their garbage into the river.

As COVID-19 cases are on a steady rise and lockdown has affected thousands of wage earners, this IAS officer made the most of the situation and optimised the available resources to solve two problems.

On the one hand, where most of us are silent about environmental degradation, people like Katragadda are proof that even the efforts of ordinary citizens, can lead to significant and long-lasting change.

With ecologically-responsible crematory processes that will consume lesser quantities of wood, these crematoriums intend to safeguard the environment along with the river.

This festive season, there is a good chance of river Yamuna in Delhi getting a bit less polluted in comparison to the previous years. That’s because all those people who are spotted throwing prayer offerings and other such waste material in the river will have to pay a fine of Rs. 5,000. This is how it will work.