Economy of slippage

Shallow scheme

Drinking water project peppered with flaws

What about privatisation, then?

Packaged water @ 10 paise/litre

Jharkhand: Water scarcity in Birsa Munda’s village exacerbates due to poor monsoon

Security personnel bring water in tankers to struggling villagers

Oil in the well

Many a slip

Can India meet the 2012 deadline to provide safe drinking water to all rural homes?

Saving future

Solution to crisis: start planning now

Hard rain down the drain

What's eating up the state's water

Unrealistic approach killing rural sanitation programme

Injustice gets nastier

Water ATMs were introduced in Ghana — and are changing the way people can access this vital resource

Powered by solar energy, most water ATMs are designed to operate 24 hours a day

75 years of people’s power: Jharkhand district modifies leach pits to tackle grey water

Pits in Sahibganj district raised to counteract frequent floods, shallow groundwater

MGNREGA: Less than a million people got 100 days of work in first 7 months of this financial year

Least number of people got 100 days of work under MGNREGA in 5 years

Groundwater in 12 Indian states found to be contaminated with uranium

Nearly 29%, or about 3 in every 10 wells tested in Punjab, is contaminated with uranium

Water management practices dismal in states: Niti Aayog

Gujarat, Andhra, MP, Himachal keeps up tight water management

Rain or no rain

Letters

Letters

Letters

Value for every drop

The World Bank funded project for the privatisation of rural water supply may create more problems than it seeks to solve

Cost: Three rupees

..per villager per year. And the benefit of an ultraviolet disinfectant is potable water for a community of 1,000 people for 15 years

How to make Swajaldhara work

Intention and execution are not always related. That's the Swajaldhara lesson. Swajaldhara is a national-level rural water supply scheme that …

Managing water locally - a good model

In the Water and Sanitation Project implemented by the Tamil Nadu government with assistance from the Danish International Development Assistance,…

Pumping iron

The training of women in the maintenance of hand-pumps has not only flooded them with confidence, it has rescued a government water supply …