In deep water
CLEANING UP
Fishy projects
DESTROYING A BEACHHEAD
A sinking feeling
The historic fort in Jaisalmer has started collapsing due to excessive seepage of water
Reviewing the review
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.
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
Watershed ruling on Narmada
The Supreme Court has washed aside an ambiguous Review Committee Report and ordered fresh investigations
Stormwater channels
CAMBODIA
Yet another urban flood: Bengaluru suffers severe water logging following heavy rains
Floods brought traffic, public and emergency services to a halt
Flood on hilltop
Unplanned development is leading to floods in Lonavala. This can stop if the municipality declares it a hill station
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 …