KAS Mani is a water resources consultant with over four decades of experience largely with UN and other funding agencies
How to make invisible groundwater visible
Sustainable vision is key to balancing current needs and future demands
How technology can help save India’s groundwater
Technology-guided decision-making would help distinguish groundwater abuse and promote efficient use
Conserving groundwater: Role of women crucial in bringing about significant change
Women who have no decision-making role in building wells, bear the brunt of the ensuing water crisis
India’s water is being exported as agri-exports; is there a solution
It is critical for us to adopt the circular water management model of treating and rejuvenating wastewater at source, along with efficient water …
Crop risks, environmental damages, hunger and the 2020 farm laws
Improved access to new markets, better yields and higher income need to safeguard environmental sustainability and farmers’ indebtedness
Hyderabad Floods: The ghosts of dead lakes haunt the city
Absence of infrastructure to drain out a meagre half a metre of rainfall led to mayhem
Jal Shakti ministry’s groundwater guideline shuns opportunity to address overall crisis
Complex groundwater systems cannot be controlled or predicted, but need to be better managed and made more efficient
An India where dams are no longer the new temples
As India’s water crisis deepens, the Jal Shakti ministry has the unenviable task of setting right a system mortgaged to the Nehruvian model …