Rivers Shankhini and Dankini in Chhattisgarh run dirty

A sustainable engineering disaster

Rivers' fury

High standards for high-risk projects

We need to vigorously defend our remaining rivers from over-damming and strengthen the laws and standards that protect them

Floods cause havoc in drought-prone Barmer, Rajasthan

Fancy wall for Sundarbans

Government starts building massive embankments on the fragile delta using untested technology. Experts say the project benefits contractors, …

Growing fences

Burgeoning population and agricultural encroachment in the last half century have erected artificial walls within the Gond tribes. These ethnic …

No respite for Ridleys

Turtle excluder devices can reduce turtle deaths. But a web of politics and government laxity prevents their use

Against the flow

Passive neighbour

India remains indifferent as China builds dams on upper reaches of Brahmaputra  

Under threat

A proposed dam is set to change the landscape in the Pindar ghati--host to the last free flowing tributary of the Alaknanda. Bharat Lal Seth …

Prayers for a little

Rivers’ flows must be maintained to protect the services they provide, but India has no legislation  

A belief in tradition

It was a unique ceremony for a unique award given to a unique rural community of India. In what is perhaps the first ceremony of its kind, …

Going off course

As the Cauvery river dispute between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu gets reduced to a politico-legal wrangle, focal issues remain unaddressed

Emergency

Chennai, crippled by water crisis, is also a metaphor for what Indian cities are experiencing in sourcing and managing the most precious natural …

Sundarbans at risk

Bangladesh-India power plant can severely affect the mangrove forest, say environmentalists

Pee, poop and paani

Bharat Lal Seth recounts his experience of drinking water reclaimed from sewage

Orphans of the river

Riverine fisherfolk, arguably the oldest among traders, are being sold down the river. An unholy synergy of poisoned rivers, government apathy …

Water woes in wet Kerala

More than 2,000 mm of rain in 2003 but crops destroyed and farmers committing suicide; crores spent on 31 irrigation projects but villages going …

Cry of a river

A little known river in UP is struggling for survival. Untreated effluent, delayed action to blame

Drought of equity

A large part of Maharashtra has been declared drought-hit. But distribution of water is quite incongruous. While the few who are politically and …

Sand slips

Where there is a river, there is sand. Called a minor mineral, it fulfils a major requirement of the booming construction industry. No wonder, …

POSCO, a better tomorrow?

Sayantan Bera captures the mood at Jagatsinghpur, Odisha (Photos from June 16 and 17)