The threat of Chandipura virus

Alert after blood sample of 5-year-old victim tests positive

I report. I don't answer.

Traveling in rural India to report developments is turning out to be uncomfortable. Uncomfortable for the reporter’s soul, not body. We …

Blocking out the bulls

Amul is importing semen to increase the birth rate of female cows, while reducing the chances of the males

We want to listen

Banking on self-help

Chhotaudepur has devised a successful collective water management system: water banks

Damned squabbles

Waves of criticism against the newly proposed Kalpsar project wash away the Gujarat government's ambitious claims

The last lesson

There is a need to learn from the rainwater harvesting drive that has been carried out in Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat

Unhealthy state

Milk and money

Rural cooperatives in Gujarat are computerising all operations on their own steam

The roots of prosperity

The woods march back to barren forest department land as villagers in Gujarat's Panchmahals district grab the spade

Water of life

The natives of Banni in Gujarat have developed a unique rainwater From highly technique from highly saline ground water

Jekyll and Hyde

Never give up

High but not dry

Tapping our tradition

Fantastic workers of the terrain

About 4,000 years ago, people in Lothal showed us how best to integrate land and water management practices

The liquid heat trap

A giant pond at a dairy in Gujarat is the world's largest water storehouse of the sun's energy and heats about 80,000 litres of water everyday

Sanctuary saga

A recent investigation into the Narayan Sarovar Sanctuary lends support to the boundary reduction exercise by the state government

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Lifted into prosperity

Community lift irrigation management systems have ushered in a new era in Shankerpura

Out of the depths

Women water-users are determined to have their say in water management policymaking

Water in the sand

Experiments in rainwater harvesting are recharging parched aquifers in Kutch

Washed, clean and green

The Vankars of Gujarat have reclaimed saline wastelands in Gujarat after 9 years of bloody struggle

Rain, rain, go away

Because Gujarat will quench its thirst with canals. And there will be no floods

Gujarat’s rain-fed Fofal river dries up

This has sent villagers in Saurashtra region into a tizzy owing to the acute agrarian crisis