Book review: Waterlines by Amita Baviskar

Rivers are wellsprings of life. They give birth to civilisations, sustain livelihoods and sometimes even trigger wars. Rivers inspire awe and …

River Krishna: all used up

But the Maharashtra government still wants to divert 'surplus' water to dry areas

Ecologically subsidised city

Kolkata's ecosystem can educate one about living creatively with nature

खत्म हो रही है एक पारंपरिक सिंचाई प्रणाली, कौन है जिम्मेवार

महाराष्ट्र में खेतों तक पानी पहुंचाने वाली यह पारंपरिक व्यवस्था गन्ने की खेती और सरकारी उपेक्षा की कीमत चुका रही है

Union Budget 2020-21: Half-hearted effort to revive rivers, including Ganga

Fund allocation dips for Namami Gange and National River Conservation Plan  

भारत समेत दुनिया भर की दो तिहाई नदियों के लिए बड़ा खतरा हैं बांध

जर्नल नेचर में प्रकाशित अध्ययन से पता चला है कि लगभग दो-तिहाई नदियों को बांधों, तटबंधों, जलाशयों एवं मनुष्य द्वारा निर्मित अन्य ढांचों ने ...

Reluctant to upgrade

Textile dyeing units would rather extract groundwater than treat and recycle wastewater due to the costs involved and a lack of adequate policy …

A new R&D lab to help small hydropower projects

The turbine model testing facility is touted to be a step for make in India, as it is said to the first independent facility for turbine …

Cleaning India’s polluted rivers

More than 38,000 million litres of waste water enters the major rivers, water bodies and even percolates into the ground every day

Watery solution

Water squabbles

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Honey I shrunk the salmons!

Salmons from two rivers are reducing in size due to lack of food

Any solution?

Karnataka in ecological fix

Maharashtra sugarcane farmers taught green skills

The Mukti Sangharsh Movement is teaching farmers in Maharashtra's sugar belt scientific methods of moving from single-crop, fertiliser-intensive …

Mughal system stilll supplies water at zero cost

Mughal builders are known the world over for the Taj Mahal. But their water engineers built a supply system in 1615 that still provides water to …

Waters of life

Tarun Bharat Sangh of Alwar is well-known for its work on reviving traditions of waterharvesting. But few know about the economic advantages of …

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 …

Rock bottom

The rivers, blue and black

Book>> Dirty, Sacred Rivers: Confronting South Asia’s Water Crisis by Cheryl Colopy, OUP, Rs 1,295.

गंगा पर नया संकट, किसके पाले में सरकार

दो निजी एवं एक सरकारी बांध संचालक ने गंगा का प्रवाह सुनिश्चित करने के लिए बनी गाइडलाइन मानने से इनकार कर दिया है

The new extreme reality of floods

Floods are destroying vast parts of the country because of how we have mismanaged our floodplains

Natural embrace

Are we ecological serial killers or benevolent conservationists? Muriel Kakani narrates some refreshing perspectives of camel herders in Rajasthan

Illegal sand mining around the world: islands disappear; livelihoods at stake

As demand for usable sand surpasses supply, illegal miners are stripping riverbeds, beaches and causing irreversible damage to environment

Tree rings hold the key

They are natural archives of yearly waterflow pattern of rivers