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

Bundelkhand's bravehearts

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

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 …

In deep water

Rivers Krishna and Mahanadi are in crisis. In the race to industrialise, states have drawn plans to exploit their last drop. For four decades, …

Lavasa exposed

By its looks, the place could be mistaken for Portofino, a fishing village-cum-resort in Italy—multi-coloured buildings crowd a waterfront …

RTI detained

Rise and fall of water managers

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

Court cements Nirma claim

Rejects farmers’ plea against cement plant in Bhavnagar

Village in arms

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

Lavasa’s journey downhill

Rules were bent to concentrate development in the valley, lakefront

The god of ecological things

The laboratory of development

Make India drought-proof

A journey called change

Their struggle for survival and progress has shaped the understanding of environmentalism both at the national and global levels and influenced …

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

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 …

Dam in check

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

A Maharashtra village revives by reviving a tank

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