Controversial plan to sell water from Sheonath river

Ajit Jogi, Chhattisgarh chief minister, has announced an enquiry into the legality of India's first private project to supply water to industry …

Goa's dark side

Hidden from public eye, miners and politicians are ravaging Goa's forests and drinking water reservoirs, finds Sugandh Juneja

Farming fish and mussels

When bad management and increasing demand for inland fish led to plummeting stocks, fishing villages around the Ashtamudi estuary in Kollam …

Net gain

Villagers around Tawa reservoir in Madhya Pradesh are finally allowed to retain fishing rights

Rivers' fury

Lavasa: Dream for one, nightmare for many

Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava finds how people affected by Lavasa are coping with the destruction it has caused

This is what Lavasa looks like

Fishing jobs

Fishing ban in Tawa reservoir leaves villagers with no work

Human-avian conflict

Right to fish

Tawa shows the way in ensuring fishing rights to people

Odisha worries over safety of dams in way of Hudhud

Officials try to figure out how to drain water from the dam reservoirs before heavy rains begin Sunday morning

Supreme Court says no to increasing Tehri reservoir level

Negates its earlier order that gave temporary permission to do so

Fly ash from Hindalco spills to farms

Odisha pollution control board goes soft on aluminium plant

Tawa Matsya Sangh, fishing co-operative in Madhya Pradesh, loses licence

Struck at the root

Livelihood of 2,000 families is threatened as the Maharashtra forest department tries to ban extraction of lotus roots

Wasteland or wetland?

Three panels’ reports later, green tribunal wants re-evaluation of Nirma project site

Khandwa replaces municipal water with supply from PPP project

Madhya Pradesh town municipality blames state water resources department for stopping local municipal supply to provide water from Narmada PPP project

Protests continue at lower Suktel dam site

Villagers fear water will go to mining companies and thermal power plants instead of irrigation

Flood alert in Gujarat

Dam-induced floods feared in Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar and Kheda districts

Why Hirakud dam failed to check flood

The river has strayed from its flood control route

Dams induce severe floods

They were built for flood protection by attenuating rivers’ flow

Reservoir overflow worsens flood in Vadodara

IMD forecasts more rainfall in Gujarat and Maharastra in the next 48 hours

NGT orders Singrauli polluters to provide clean drinking water to residents, or face closure

Directs industries in the coal and power hub to stop dumping industrial waste into Rihand reservoir and connected rivers

Panel calls for halt to water privatisation in Khandwa

Government committee says town municipality committed irregularities to favour private vendor Vishwaa Utilities; pressure builds to cancel contract

Lavasa exposed

By its looks, the place could be mistaken for Portofino, a fishing village-cum-resort in Italy—multi-coloured buildings crowd a waterfront …