As snowpack depletes, vulnerable communities have less access to water. One study already predicted that 66% of the global ...

Rivers have always been more than just flowing water. They're lifelines, highways, and silent witnesses to humanity's greatest achievements.Throughout history, these liquid arteries have determined ...

The Indian city of Kanpur is an anomaly — an industrial city that lies on the banks of a river that is revered as a goddess. Established in 1801 by the British to supply their army in India, Kanpur is ...

Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics and interim head of the Department of Sustainability, presented a paper on centralized versus decentralized approaches to cleaning water ...

Thousands of devotees waded into the foul waters of the Yamuna river in the Indian capital Monday for a Hindu festival, amid ...

Bangladesh’s iconic river dolphins—the Ganges River Dolphin (Platanista gangetica) and the Irrawaddy Dolphin (Orcaella ...

Before the festival began, India’s top environmental court directed the state and federal pollution boards to ensure the river water was clean enough to drink and bathe in. It called for increasing ...

To find out how destructive negligence and indifference are, it is enough to move between Hawaii and California and see the ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The Ganges river, holy to most Indians, flows from the western Himalayas down to the Bay of Bengal through crowded cities, industrial hubs and some of the most populated areas in ...

DEVPRAYAG/VARANASI/SAGAR ISLAND, India (Reuters) - India's holy Ganges begins as a crystal clear river high in the icy Himalayas but pollution and excessive usage transforms it into toxic sludge on ...