Working women

In Guraiya village , it's women empowerment all the way

Awarded : Bhaonta-Kolyala

... for reviving the Arvari river, for showing that a healthy ecology and good water management mean prosperity, for proving that drought is a myth

Living made difficult

Saving future

Solution to crisis: start planning now

Hard rain down the drain

What's eating up the state's water

Bhutan’s experiments with happiness

The idyllic Buddhist kingdom believes that peace and happiness should take preference over material growth. In a world beset by inequities and …

A million mutinies

You are the government

Cauvery gouged

Ten years after the Tamil Nadu government took over sand mining from private players, illegalities continue, harming agriculture and draining the …

Rivers of discord

Watery grave

Encroachment is killing Guwahati's only river and wetlands that can save the city from perennial floods

Breaking the impasse of 2013

Floods blacked out but real

Why we celebrate rivers

More than 100 groups in at least 36 countries again pay their respects to rivers on this International Day of Action for Rivers

Rivers, Provide and not Serve

Hydro-power, long irrigation canals, sand mining and water for industrial use: these are not what Maa Ganga in its magnanimity provides. These …

Small is beautiful

Snatching someone's baby

Villagers in Rajasthan have revived a dried up river in the region with help of a NGO. Now, their fight is with the state government, which has …

Rivers are flowing off-course

Officials need to pull up their socks on conservation measures

When the Sharda flows wild

Villages on its path prepare for the recurrent misery of inundation as an apathetic government looks on

Sunday warriors

Residents of Lucknow have taken up the task of cleaning the river Gomti

The Sun vs the Moon

Dam authorities don't think of those living downstream

Perched atop an abyss

The predatory Nile perch, introduced with all good intentions into the Lake Victoria, is turning out to be the magnificent lake's nemesis

Engulfed by the ravines

Once a throbbing rural business centre, Birahrua, in Morena district of Madhya Pradesh, is now haunted by devilish gullies

Mekong's miseries

A new regional treaty to usher in dams on the Mekong river has drawn flak from environmental groups

Turning rivers into killers

The recent tragedy in Manali caused by flash floods in river Beas raises serious questions on the management of dams and barrages in the country.