This man saved his village from flash floods, reclaimed surrounding sal forests

He constructed the first check dam in Jamtoli village in Jharkhand to ensure heavy rains don't wash away farms

Cape Town will not run out of water this year

The announcement has been made keeping in mind the May-September winter rainy season

"Sir, did you get a cut on my dam?"

RTI detained

Bundelkhand's bravehearts

For villages that survived recurring droughts, the economic-ecological connection makes more sense

Rainwater rights

The government- NGO friction at Lava ka Baas has opened a Pandora's box water ownership, archaic laws and hopeful communities that want to hold …

A Maharashtra village revives by reviving a tank

Dam in check

In an atmosphere of deepening mistrust on the India-Nepal border, Bihar farmers find it difficult to build check dam

Villagers march to revive the Meghal river

Even as citypeople all over India were finalising their Christmas party-hopping plans, a celebration of a very different kind galvanised Junagadh …

Repeat and step it up

Rajasthan tackles drought through pokhars

Court cements Nirma claim

Rejects farmers’ plea against cement plant in Bhavnagar

Rise and fall of water managers

Book>> Waternama, A Collection of Traditional Practices for Water Conservation and Management in Karnataka Sandhya Iyengar publisher …

Time Locked

Government watershed programmes run for a limited period. The impractical timeframe threatens to undo the goodwork

Sustained Conservation

Only a strong political commitment for water conservation will ensure the survival of these structures

Steeplechase

There is euphoria in the villages which have harvested rain. Overcoming hurdles, village communities learn the first lesson in water management

Penny unwise, pond foolish

The government should have revived traditional water bodies and ponds to prepare Bundelkhand for drought. Rather, it spent Rs 15,000 crore to …

A water journey

Monsoon means celebrations for the people of Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat who script success stories of rainwater harvesting. But in Rajasthan they …

Drought hit

Jharkhand’s water table falls three metres in one year

An oasis put to test

Backed by three decades of water conservation measures, semi-arid Saurashtra is driving Gujarat’s agricultural growth. Will it be able to …

Drought fails to crush a Bundelkhand village

Village in arms

The god of ecological things

No freeloaders

The laboratory of development