A fluid right

Blog Intro:  Campaign to make water and sanitation a right gathers momentum Campaign to make water and sanitation a right gathers momentum

Arsenic control

Renal emergency

P G Jayasingha sat on his bed with a bloated stomach. Both his kidneys had failed and he was unable to pass urine. He could not drink water despite being thirsty. His arms and legs would constantly ache and his eyesight had failed him. That was in February when Down To Earth visited him.

Mercury rises early

  Khurda is the worst affected in Orissa, with 10 sunstroke deaths reported PHOTOGRAPHS AGNIMIRH BASU

Water woes in wet Kerala

With Parliamentary polls nearing, politicians turned the drought into an opportunity for wooing voters by running water tankers. Water scarcity was debated at street-corner campaign meetings, and rival political parties blamed each other and even the monsoon for the crisis.

On privatising water

Wherever they exist India's urban elite splash on subsidies B Ashok a regime of pro-rich subsidies have ensured India's urban elites happilly benefit from organised water supply and sewage treatment services, wherever they exist.

Letters

Bring back trams

Letters

Know Betel Farmers Of Tamil Nadu

Economy of slippage

Where did the Rs 100,000 crore pumped into drinking water supply go?

Mahukheda sets an example

Mahukheda village in Madhya Pradesh’s Dewas district was once famous for men remaining bachelors for life. People of other villages were unwilling to give their daughters in marriage to the village men because the place was water-poor and women had to spend hours fetching water.