How to manage risks in entire water supply chain: Manual by WHO, IWA has tips for suppliers

Effective water safety planning must take into account supply sensitivity to future climate-related risks

New CAG report exposes wide gap between India's groundwater management regulations & implementation

77% packaged drinking water units in 18 states operating without no-objection certificates

TAIWAN

Water poisoning has officials in a tizzy

As confusion reigns over how municipal water in three Agra localities was contaminated, self-appointed social workers are trying to exploit the …

How to minimise chlorination's adverse health affects

Compromising with a necessary evil: this is literally true for chlorination -- the most widely used technology for disinfecting drinking water. A …

Simply Put: Digging for water

Simply put: India will soon run out of water

Poisoned Punjab: Study finds declining groundwater quality, southwestern Punjab most affected

Intensive agriculture practices, over-exploitation of groundwater may be to blame  

WATER CRISIS

Growing on less water

India’s water crisis: The seen and unseen

As many as 256 of 700 districts reported critical or over-exploited groundwater levels as of 2017

Catching water where it falls

A movement to recharge the depleted groundwater aquifers in a parched district of Madhya Pradesh gathers momentum

Maharashtra braces for water emergency

No rains in October, coupled with high temperatures, have aggravated the crisis

Delhi, The biggest culprit

Dirty and thirsty

In short

Good ol' dug well

Traditional shallow wells can supply arsenic-free water. All one needs to do is install it with caution

Promising water

Talking about fluorosis

Participants failed to come up with workable solutions at a recent international conference on fluorosis

Fishy deaths

The mystery of large-scale fish fatalities in the Yamuna near Agra and the conflicting official theoriesA report by Prabhanjan Verma

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 …

MALAYSIA

KENYA

Famine in motion

More water is used by the bodies of those who live in nations with low development indices: Study

This will enable prediction of volume of drinking water needed in the event of a disaster