Look, oil

About 10,000 people scan drains in Delhi's industrial areas: a vital but neglected work force

Last call

Will the song of the sarus be heard when the wetlands of Uttar Pradesh are drained?

Reaping rainwater

The innovative use of stormwater drains to harvest water has meant a new lease of life for water-starved Chennai

Sewage Outpour

When prashant krishnan, vinita garg, aditya jha, gurpreet singh and neeraj kumar set out to map Mayapuri's drainage,they had no inkling that new …

Watershed ruling on Narmada

The Supreme Court has washed aside an ambiguous Review Committee Report and ordered fresh investigations

500,000 billion litres

Roadside rainwater harvesting potential in India remains untapped

SSP falls prey to political machinations

Thirty years of planning, 15 years of construction, ten years of promises and Rs 15,000 crore later, the Sardar Sarovar Project is finally …

Floods cause havoc in drought-prone Barmer, Rajasthan

World Bank's Pakistan flood-control plan faulty

World Bank pulled up for aid to flood control programmes in Pakistan

Why is river Yamuna still maily?

Officials do not understand the gray waters produced by the city

Flooded, by drains

It was not just cyclone Nilam that ruined paddy in Andhra

A congestion plan in the name of decongesting Delhi

Urban development ministry’s expert panel report on how to decongest Delhi pays only lip service to improving public transport and …

Remarkably clean

Port cities set up by Dutch colonists had ingenuous drainage systems

Excreta's economy a true experience

Watery grave

Encroachment is killing Guwahati's only river and wetlands that can save the city from perennial floods

Rain lash

Four-hour deluge washed away not just crops but also soil from 5,000 hectares in Maharashtra. Experts warn of more such weather events. Is the …

Ignorance and arrogance make for good floods

`I did not have a government for 36 hours'

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah pleaded helplessness as the seat of his government went under water and his ministers and …

A monsoon warning

A tale of two cities

Shift in priorities

Lessons in dealing with floods

Mined to death: an elegy for the rivers of Meghalaya

The rivers in the Jaintia Hills have turned deep blue; mines and cement factories have killed all fish and aquatic life in them

In deep water

CLEANING UP