Updates & Latest news on water related issues, water crisis in India

Top News

Uttarakhand Health Crisis: Almora deaths

Uttarakhand Health Crisis: Almora deaths

19 hours ago

1 min read

Dried spring in Kolbong Khasmahal, once a vital source of life for the community, is now a symbol of Himalayan water insecurity.

Where springs once sang, silence now echoes across the Eastern Himalayas

Kabindra Sharma

17 Oct 2025

4 min read

Himalayan springs are cultural and ecological lifelines. But scientific studies on them remain fragmented: Vinod Kothari

Himalayan springs are cultural and ecological lifelines. But scientific studies on them remain fragmented: Vinod Kothari

04 Oct 2025

4 min read

News

BBNJ treaty receives 60 ratifications, will enter into force to protect marine life in international waters in January 2026

BBNJ treaty receives 60 ratifications, will enter into force to protect marine life in international waters in January 2026

Rohini Krishnamurthy

20 Sep 2025

2 min read

Gobar Times: Every drop counts

Gobar Times: Every drop counts

Vipin Kumar Tyagi

14 Sep 2025

1 min read

Vembanad Lake, Kerala’s most photographed symbol of serenity, may be scripting its own obituary

Vembanad Lake, Kerala’s most photographed symbol of serenity, may be scripting its own obituary

09 Sep 2025

3 min read

Open defecation in low-income countries four times higher than global average: UN report

Open defecation in low-income countries four times higher than global average: UN report

27 Aug 2025

3 min read

Sumer, which gave us ‘The Epic of Gilgamesh’, rose as a result of rivers, tides and sediments

Sumer, which gave us ‘The Epic of Gilgamesh’, rose as a result of rivers, tides and sediments

23 Aug 2025

2 min read

Ramsar COP15 closes in Zimbabwe with renewed commitment to wetland conservation

Ramsar COP15 closes in Zimbabwe with renewed commitment to wetland conservation

01 Aug 2025

4 min read

Ramsar COP15: Centrality of indigenous knowledge and local communities in wetland management highlighted

Ramsar COP15: Centrality of indigenous knowledge and local communities in wetland management highlighted

31 Jul 2025

6 min read

COP15 President Emmerson Mnangagwa at the summit.

Ramsar COP15 opens in Zimbabwe with urgent call to reverse wetland decline

25 Jul 2025

4 min read

UN policy brief highlights dire health consequences of land degradation, drought

UN policy brief highlights dire health consequences of land degradation, drought

Sushmita Sengupta

22 Jul 2025

4 min read

Day Zero? Kabul could be first world capital without water before 2030, warns report

Day Zero? Kabul could be first world capital without water before 2030, warns report

21 Jul 2025

3 min read

Experts to assess climate risks and find ways to build resilience in Meghna river basin

Experts to assess climate risks and find ways to build resilience in Meghna river basin

Himanshu Nitnaware

21 Jul 2025

2 min read

The shape of water

The shape of water

19 Jul 2025

3 min read

Interviews

Himalayan springs are cultural and ecological lifelines. But scientific studies on them remain fragmented: Vinod Kothari

Himalayan springs are cultural and ecological lifelines. But scientific studies on them remain fragmented: Vinod Kothari

04 Oct 2025

4 min read

Getting the BBNJ Agreement ratified at the United Nations Ocean Conference will be an ambitious task: Nichola Clark

Getting the BBNJ Agreement enter into force at the UN Ocean Conference will be an ambitious task: Nichola Clark

Rohini Krishnamurthy

24 Apr 2025

6 min read

Bengaluru after Day Zero: ‘City’s government & people took water scarcity head on & will convert crisis into opportunity’

Bengaluru after Day Zero: ‘City’s government & people took water scarcity head-on & will convert crisis into opportunity’

17 Aug 2024

4 min read

Krishnarajasagar dam on the Cauvery river, Karnataka. The researchers studied Cauvery basin, among others. Photo: iStock

‘Baseflow one of most important factors driving river flooding in Peninsular India’

29 Apr 2024

6 min read

Mahesh Gupta, chairperson of Kent RO Systems

Fact or fallacy: ‘RO is a defence against contaminants’

21 Mar 2024

3 min read

An Indigenous Brazilian young woman of Tupi Guarani ethnicity, with her child. Photo: iStock

Amazon’s future bleak unless environmental protection and industrial development policies are overhauled: Aline Carrara

01 Nov 2023

7 min read

Blogs

Dried spring in Kolbong Khasmahal, once a vital source of life for the community, is now a symbol of Himalayan water insecurity.

Where springs once sang, silence now echoes across the Eastern Himalayas

Kabindra Sharma

17 Oct 2025

4 min read

Donald Trump, President of the United States of America, addresses the UN General Assembly on September 23, 2025.

Trump’s dip into the Nile waters dispute didn’t settle the conflict — in fact, it may have caused more ripples

29 Sep 2025

5 min read

There is a gendered dimension to water

There is a gendered dimension to water

25 Sep 2025

4 min read

The Ganga River is drying faster than ever — here’s what it means for the region and the world

The Ganga River is drying faster than ever — here’s what it means for the region and the world

25 Sep 2025

4 min read

Kosi river's floodplain

Bihar's indigenous languages hold the key to water resilience

22 Sep 2025

5 min read

Nearly 100 Urban Local Bodies have drafted their first structured town action plans for faecal sludge, septage, and wastewater management.

‘We know what we need’: What 100 town action plans reveal about future of sanitation in Uttarakhand

Harshvardhan Nigam

19 Sep 2025

4 min read

Timing is money: Why India must align its water and crop calendars to secure its farming future

Timing is money: Why India must align its water and crop calendars to secure its farming future

15 Sep 2025

5 min read

From the Great Stink to the modern sewage scandal: why 19th-century sewers are failing 21st-century England

From the Great Stink to the modern sewage scandal: why 19th-century sewers are failing 21st-century England

Ruth Emily Sylvester

12 Sep 2025

4 min read

Down To Earth

www.downtoearth.org.in