Pratip Acharya

With 34 percent of its water supply lost to leakages and theft, Mumbai civic body plans to increase annual pipeline replacement fivefold by using sound wave technology.

In just a week, Mumbai has started to raced up the world pollution rankings, leaping from 5th to 3rd most polluted city, making the air even more dangerous to breathe.

Hard Deccan basalt has slowed Mumbai's first boring machine to 5.5 metres a day, and under 3 on bad days, as it cuts a 6.65-km twin tunnel beneath Sanjay Gandhi National Park. The Rs 6,600-crore tunnel is meant to cut a 90-minute east-west crossing of the city to 20 minutes by 2028.

A man shot after being mistaken for a boar exposes the poaching problem in Mumbai's sprawling national park.

With rising pollutant level and water cuts, the Mumbai civic body is planning to wash 677 km of roads with treated sewage water

However, the presence of sea salt does not by itself explain Mumbai's deteriorating air quality.

However, the presence of sea salt does not by itself explain Mumbai’s deteriorating air quality.

On October 15, IQAir ranked Mumbai the most polluted city in India. The same day, the Central Pollution Control Board described the air as ‘Satisfactory'. So what explains the gap? The Indian Express finds out

On October 15, IQAir ranked Mumbai India's most polluted city while the CPCB called its air ‘satisfactory'. IIT Kanpur's Sachchida Nand Tripathi, on the National Clean Air Programme's steering committee, explains the gap, what the haze tells you and what the city should fix first.

While pollution in Mumbai keeps getting worse, with the AQI dropping to dangerous level, the civic body has roped in Dia Mirza, Ajinkya Rahane and Swapnil Joshi to run an anti-pollution campaign.