Three decades and ₹8,000 crore have failed to clean the Yamuna in Delhi — untreated sewage, the Najafgarh drain, and under-capacity STPs keep BOD levels in the danger zone.
The Centre for Science and Environment's annual report finds India is breaching global ecological limits on air, water, land, and climate simultaneously — even as the economy grows at 6.5%.
The Himalayas feed rivers used by 1.9 billion people, but glaciers are now melting about twice as fast as in 2000. The water-security timeline is shorter than most policy plans assume.
India's Indian Carbon Market (ICM) went live in 2026 — a mandatory cap-and-trade scheme covering 800 large emitters. It's the biggest carbon market outside the EU and China, and it will reshape.
Mumbai's seven reservoirs hold only 12% of capacity — the lowest May level in 30 years. BMC enforces 10 to 30% cuts across all wards. With monsoon four weeks away, a city of 2.2 crore faces a.
Cauvery water allocation to Bengaluru has been cut 40%. Borewells are running dry across 220 wards. Day Zero — when piped water supply stops entirely — could arrive by June 1 without an early monsoon.