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In the name of development: How Nashik’s Goda Ghat juggled concretisation & de-concretisation over 2 decades

Recurring urban floods exposed how thoughtless development projects have renedered the area vulnerable

At least 26 of India’s 123 reservoirs are full: Central Water Commission

Storage at major river basins was normal, with Narmada, Sabarmati, Krishna and Cauvery basins having storage above 90%

World Water Day: Water management, dead rivers seminal issues in India’s groundwater debate

We can revive India’s groundwater if we make dead rivers come alive and manage and conserve water

Protest against water diversion project near Bhitarkanika turns violent

Villagers marched to Bharigada village near Odisha’s Bhitarkanika National Park and ransacked the site of a project to divert water from a …

Everyone loves an overflowing dam

Even as the government raced to fill up the reservoir of the Sardar Sarovar Dam by September 15 (one-and-a-half months ahead of the schedule as …

Narmada dam oustees not satisfied with MP govt assurances

They shouted slogans even as activist Medha Patkar held a meeting with a state minister about the fate of those displaced due to the Sardar …

India has 20 river basins, all over-exploited

Over 60 years after the country got its first plan to rejuvenate the rivers, not a single basin has been spared from overexploitation

Cauvery faces manifold threats in Tamil Nadu

The delta is up against a subsidence threat due to lack of sediment flow from upstream and seawater ingress

Yamuna highly polluted in many stretches beyond Delhi too

Scientists monitored the river’s pollution load at 12 points from Poanta in Himachal Pradesh to Pratappur in Uttar Pradesh

The Gharials of the Gandak: A conservation success story

Two recent surveys indicate that the Gandak, a trans-boundary river between Nepal and India, houses 210 gharials in the Indian section, the second-…

Amazonian dirt roads are choking Brazil's tropical streams

The fragile waterways—and the spectacular fish that live in them—are paying a high price

Three rivers are now legally people – but that's just the start of looking after them

Giving legal rights to non-human entities doesn’t mean much if they can’t be enforced

Ganga is a living entity, says Uttarakhand High Court

The only other place in the world to have given rights to a river at par with humans is New Zealand

Life along the Kosi: series 2

The Kosi river flows through the densely populated north-east Bihar, where people mostly depend on farming, fishing and cattle. They also make …

Friends of the river

Clearing the Ganga, is their mission even if it means fishing out scores of bodies from the river

Bad water

Delhi recently faced a water crisis as drinking water supply was cut due to high levels of ammonia in the Yamuna

Net solutions

Restoring waterbodies and making traditional fisherfolk stakeholders in fisheries development may save this fast disappearing tribe

Untreated effluents released in Mumbai rivers, industries flout norms: Report

The Ulhas and its tributary Waldhuni are among 53 of the most polluted rivers in Maharashtra

Assam prepares to spend Rs 40,000 crore on an economically unfeasible project

Removing excessive silt from the Brahmaputra by dredging will not solve the problem of annual floods in Assam unless the government pays …

Bihar awaits Centre's nod to interlink four rivers in the state

State says Burhi Gandak-None-Baya-Ganga intra-state river link will reduce devastation caused by floods in three districts