Interviews (Water)

‘El Niño-driven extremes act as threat multipliers, worsening vulnerabilities far beyond what we saw in the 20th century’
Climate Change

‘El Niño-driven extremes act as threat multipliers, worsening vulnerabilities far beyond what we saw in the 20th century’

Akshit Sangomla
3 min read
Kaveh Madani of UNU-INWEH tells Down To Earth how the 2026 El Niño could deepen water scarcity, disrupt food systems and amplify climate risks
Kanwarpreet Singh, associate professor in the department of civil engineering at Chandigarh University.
Water

‘Research based on GIS and remote sensing helps in identifying reliable and sustainable drinking water sources’

Sushmita Sengupta
4 min read
Down To Earth speaks with Associate Professor Kanwarpreet Singh about how advanced tools are being used to map groundwater recharge zones and support the sustainability of water resources in the Himal ...
journalist, author and filmmaker SANJOY HAZARIKA
Rivers

‘Rivers need to run free’

Rajat Ghai
3 min read
Sanjoy Hazarika on the risks the Brahmaputra faces from human interventions
‘First thing to do when solving water problems is to understand diversity’
Economist and Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee
Global South cities have a crucial opportunity to learn from costly mistakes elsewhere on land subsidence: Leonard Ohenhen
Himalayan springs are cultural and ecological lifelines. But scientific studies on them remain fragmented: Vinod Kothari
Getting the BBNJ Agreement ratified at the United Nations Ocean Conference will be an ambitious task: Nichola Clark
Bengaluru after Day Zero: ‘City’s government & people took water scarcity head on & will convert crisis into opportunity’
Krishnarajasagar dam on the Cauvery river, Karnataka. The researchers studied Cauvery basin, among others. Photo: iStock
Mahesh Gupta, chairperson of Kent RO Systems
An Indigenous Brazilian young woman of Tupi Guarani ethnicity, with her child. Photo: iStock
Kyiv and the Dnipro River on January 7, 2024. The river has frozen due to sub-zero temperatures. Seen in this photo from iStock are The Motherland (Sculpture), the Flag of Ukraine, and the Kievan district of Pechersk Lavra
Professor T V Ramachandra from the Indian institute of Science, Bengaluru
A mural depicting Spanish Conquistador, Francisco de Orellana in the town of Puerto Francisco de Orellana, also known as El Coca in the province of Orellana, eastern Ecuador. The city is located in the Amazon Rainforest at the confluence of the Coca River and the Napo River. Photo: WIkimedia Commons, CC 2.0
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