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Best of 2017: Realty chokes Kolkata wetlands

The marshes of East Kolkata Wetlands, an unique ecosystem that serves as the mega city’s low-carbon waste disposal and sewage treatment network, is being rapidly filled up due to an insatiable demand for real estate

The wetlands on the eastern fringe of Kolkata may soon be history if more and more buildings keep coming up there. This will destroy…Read More

Realty chokes Kolkata wetlands

On the eve of World Wetlands Day, here’s a look at the state of the east Kolkata wetlands, a unique ecosystem that serves as the mega city’s waste disposal and sewage treatment network, but is being rapidly filled up due to an insatiable demand for real estate

The wetlands on the eastern fringe of Kolkata may soon be history…Read More

Ganga an unholy mess at Kanpur

Government initiatives to clean up the Ganga have failed to stop the dumping of toxic effluents and untreated sewage into the river at the industrial hub of Kanpur

Even a short visit to Kanpur, an industrial city in northern India, is enough to show that there is no respite yet for the Ganga from massive pollution despite the much-trumpeted…Read More