India’s water crisis: The clock is ticking
We need to promote a decentralised approach, with a key focus on water conservation, source sustainability, storage and reuse wherever possible
Chennai’s water wars
The water-stressed city has been preying for a long time on aquifers in its neighbourhood, with often violent results, an analysis of its …
Distress looms over water-starved Chennai
People of other parts of Tamil Nadu — home to about 67 million people — have also been hurt
Why women's involvement is so vital to water projects' success — or failure
Women have notable but often invisible roles in the economically productive use of water, including agriculture, fisheries and livestock
Singapore’s journey from a water scarce to a water secure nation
Singapore has tapped every opportunity to collect, treat, reuse and produce necessary water resources
Water conservation fee: improving or increasing the crisis?
We need to find newer ways to reduce and regulate over-extraction and usage, than promoting further extraction and overuse of this …
‘Climate change one of many reasons for Kerala’s receding groundwater table’
Anand Zacharias, development associate (water) with MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, talks about how open well recharge system is helping …
Water: The clock is ticking
Day Zero has been postponed to next year for …
July 31, 2018
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Sonam Wangchuk wins the Magsaysay
The Ladakhi engineer, environmentalist and innovator has been awarded ‘Asia’s Nobel’ for ‘harnessing nature, culture …
With half a million new farm ponds, should farmers be worried about deficit monsoon?
In the last 12 years, the MGNREGA has created at least 46 new water harvesting structures in every village
Current water management system ignoring nature-based solutions: UN report
The water management system is too dependent on human-built infrastructure
Dying wisdom
Rise and fall of traditional water harvesting systems in India
They are called kuhals in Jammu, kuls in Himachal …