Wastewater, seasons, tides: How Ganga water quality in Bengal changes every year
Pollution is less in the monsoon and post monsoon due to dilution of river water with rainwater; it is the opposite in pre-monsoon
Water, Africa’s Gold: South Africa seeks to increase water through recycling, reuse
South Africa is using algae to treat its wastewater and reuse it in a number of provinces
How a water-scarce village in Maharashtra became water-prudent
Villages in Bhokardan block created sustainable provisions for drinking water while also managing greywater despite unfavourable hydrogeology
Water, Africa’s Gold: Kenya’s urban slums need water, even as lakes Victoria, Turkana in trouble
Urban poor in Kenya bear brunt of water scarcity due to a number of reasons, even as trans-border lakes are on the verge of dying
Water, Africa’s Gold: How poverty exacerbated Nigeria’s acute water crisis
Lack of clear government funding led to avoidable deaths from water-borne diseases like cholera
How Assam's Bodo community used indigenous knowledge to tackle decades-old water supply problem
River water was diverted to the villages through dongs — earthen canals built and maintained by the villagers
Air, water pollution offences more than triple in 2020: NCRB
Only 8 of 36 states and Union territories register cases for violating air, water pollution laws in 2020
Arsenic now in wheat, potato — and more than that in drinking water — in rural Bihar
Groundwater contaminated with arsenic is extensively used for irrigation and finds its way into the food chain
Not just groundwater, flouride has poisoned agricultural soil, crops in Bengal
Farmers in Bankura and Purulia rely on groundwater, heavily contaminated with flouride, to cultivate crops
Climate crisis in North East India: What is behind water scarcity in the region
Drying up of water springs, land degradation, sandy soils of the Brahamputra point to a grim situation in the region
Bhitarkanika will die if freshwater extraction by industries continues: Activist
Bhitarkanika, the second-largest mangrove forest in India will be destroyed if freshwater continues to be extracted from the Brahmani river basin
In Photos: Tribal women in Odisha battle severe water crisis
The Hill Kharias of Odisha are a particularly vulnerable tribal group living in the Mayurbhanj district. The group lacks access to potable …
COVID-19: Wastewater surveillance can help discover spread, says scientist
Surveillance through wastewater-based epidemiology can help the country in its fight against the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, …
Why NGT’s calls on restoration of water bodies is need of the hour
National Green Tribunal’s 2019 order asking states to identify, protect and restore water bodies underlines the urgency to save them
Groundwater quality deteriorating in Tamil Nadu’s industrial areas: CSE
The most serious pollution threat to groundwater was from calcium, chloride and iron, associated with sewage and pollution from tannery waste
Experts slam BJP’s manifesto proposal to transfer water from south to north Bengal
The BJP’s proposal to take water from three south-flowing rivers to the northern part of Bengal lacked justification, experts said
World Water Day: How Indian villages used 15 years of MGNREGA
A look at how the world’s largest public wage programme has helped fight water shortage and revive India’s agrarian economy
Valuing water a challenge in Africa, says UN report
Lack of data on water a major limitation to fulfilling United Nations-mandated sustainable development goals, the report flagged
How 40 villages in Odisha came together to address water crisis
Charmalik has recorded a 2-2.5 ft increase in the surface and sub-surface water level since 2010
City water plans: How to get more data smart
Designing tools and resources to help decision makers gather and analyse data cost-effectively may allow cities to generate sound water plans
India’s water crisis: The seen and unseen
As many as 256 of 700 districts reported critical or over-exploited groundwater levels as of 2017
Every fifth child faces water scarcity globally: Unicef report
More than 155 million children in South Asia live in areas with high or even extremely high water vulnerability, Unicef says
Mars early water may be trapped in its crust: Scientists
The new findings challenge the prevalent theory that water from the Red Planet escaped into space
The chase and the change: Let’s look back at 15 years of MGNREGA this World Water Day
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act has shown what it can achieve by putting water conservation at its core
Water in age of climate change
We now need to be more than obsessive about water and its management as it is the basis of health and wealth