In deep water

CLEANING UP

Fishy projects

Look, oil

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

DESTROYING A BEACHHEAD

A sinking feeling

The historic fort in Jaisalmer has started collapsing due to excessive seepage of water

Getting Indore's roads to play a double role

An Indore engineer has solved the problem of waterlogging in the city's slums by building sloping roads that lead excess water to the nearest nullah.

Reviewing the review

Choking from within

Drainage plan helps reclaim land

Scientists have evolved a subsurface drainage system that makes saline soils arable within three years

Save lakes from the sins of humanity

No digging

LAGOS

Last call

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

Remarkably clean

Port cities set up by Dutch colonists had ingenuous drainage systems

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 …

In court

Gujarat passes groundwater bill

The legislation makes it mandatory for farmers to get licence for extracting water

Gujarat passes groundwater bill

The legislation makes it mandatory for farmers to get licence for extracting water

Losing touch

Watershed ruling on Narmada

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

Stormwater channels

CAMBODIA

Navi Mumbai airport hanging in air

Environment ministry asks for re-examination of alternative sites