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

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

Should we confer legal right upon nature?

French philosopher Michel Seres had long ago proposed the idea of agency for the natural environment as a whole so that its rights can be protected

Kosi, a wild prisoner

An engineering folly unfolds over a week-long journey along the Kosi river in Bihar

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

The demise of rivers

The ecology of rivers is irreversibly damaged through riverfront projects in India

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 …

How the growing “one water” movement is not only helping the environment but also saving millions of dollars

Solutions to floods, droughts and pollution that look upstream, downstream and everywhere in between save dollars and make sense

How we're using fish ear bones as 'time capsules' of past river health

Oxygen isotope values of fish ear bones gives information on the temperature of the water, while studying concentrations of trace elements …

Will the new Yamuna River Project clean up the river?

A study by the University of Virginia on cooperation between India and Spain aims at rejuvenating the Yamuna as it flows through India’s …

China and India’s border dispute is a slow-moving environmental disaster

Almost half the world’s population and 20% of its economy depend on Himalayan rivers. China and India’s …

Now, activists seek personhood rights for a fifth river

An amicus brief was submitted to the Constitutional Court of Colombia on August 9 calling for recognition of the rights of the Anchicayá River

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 …

Kerala: After the deluge, a drought in the works

Major rivers and wells in the state have seen their water levels dip precariously after a terrible flood hit the state in August

To resolve Cauvery dispute, outdated institutions with little scholarship need to be outlawed

SC's direction to the Centre to frame a scheme to resolve the dispute is poised to fail as the 'expert' organisation has no authority in the …

`Bioregionalism could become a global movement'

French architect Didier Prost is an advocate of bioregionalism, which calls for a renewed focus on local people and knowledge to innovate for …

Dissolve Central Water Commission to save Ganga: Experts

The panel has its hands full, say activists at India River Week

Rewind 2018: Is India’s head above water?

Here’s a lowdown on how India struggled to get its act together as its groundwater levels dipped and water bodies diminished

Study sheds light on functioning of global river-based ecosystems

Around 153 researchers from 40 countries worked on the paper, which shows how climatic factors that govern decomposition rates are increasingly …

Overflowing pitcher of disquiet

It is high time to start investing and investigating ecological cost of holding the Kumbh 

How water flows across continents

Hungarian cartographer Robert Szucs has created graphic maps of watersheds across the world. His works can be found here.

Women water activists gather in Kathmandu to exchange notes

About 100 women from Asia, Africa, the Americas and Europe attend the first Women and Rivers Congress

Nobody cares for Bihar's drying rivers in poll season

Most of the state's 600 rivers have either dried up or are on the verge

Hydropower dams can harm coastal areas far downstream

A study in Mexico on four rivers finds that damming rivers has measurable negative ecologic and economic effects on coastal regions more …

Water reserves in 71 of India’s 91 reservoirs have dipped: CWC

A delay in arrival of the monsoon, especially in western India, will worsen the water woes even further