Drought is in the mind

GOOD NEWS: There is more evidence to show that water harvesting can go a long way in dealing with drought and solving the water crisis, and even …

Political harvest

Report card: A scheme that can help solve the water crisis has become a tool to promote political interests of the ruling party Success level: Poor

Learning the mantra

Report card: The government realised its failures and learned from the civil society. Despite cases of corruption and some errors in planning, …

Tryst with rain

Following the monsoon failure of 1999-2000, two states - Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh - launched crash programmes to encourage water harvesting. An …

Ramsar is not a strong, strict and rigid convention

India has listed 16 wetlands under the Ramsar sites, but with no policies, knowledge or interest shown by the authorities, proper management is …

Of human bondage

Building a green roof

10,000 trees in 66 years, an octogenarian revives greenery in a village in Bihar

South America unites

A new community of nations is to be formed

JFM panels empowered

Double whammy

Major flare-up

Africa's largest slum has a radio station

Prefect power

Villagers revive forests

Power to the people

ZIMBAWE

The importance of good-neighbourliness

THAILAND

Berlin’s grassroots plan to renationalise up to 200,000 ex-council homes from corporate landlords

Solutions for a large country

...are normally available with the local community

Protectors of the forest

Saara adivasis in Orissa have undertaken measures to conserve forest wealth

UNITED NATIONS

Dissolution Directive

Rules of engagement

Thirty years on, what does the Narmada Bachao Andolan teach us?

Very vague

Delegates came and talked but failed to arrive at any conclusions at the World Water Forum