To sell a resource
Water. A resource whose scarcity and inefficient allocation gives enough cause for concern. A concern which could find a solution in the concept …
How the women of one Jharkhand village built their own bathrooms
The collective effort by all the women of Telleya has made it a model village in the entire Gumla district
Spring in a box
A village in Maharashtra solves its water crisis by building underground boxes to tap spring water
Live storage in India’s reservoirs increases by 1%
India’s 143 major reservoirs had live storage of 147.631 BCM or 83% of these reservoirs’ total capacity
Jharkhand: West Singhbhum DMF must invest in improving health care services, says CSE
With more than Rs 370 crore in its kitty, West Singhbhum DMF Trust should prioritise reducing child mortality and improving nutrition for local people
Menstrual cycle is normal; our attitude towards it is not
Girls and women have to fight social norms as well as lack of access to safe adsorbents, bathing space and water to manage their menstrual cycles
When 'calamity' strikes
Water harvesting is the new catchword for the government struggling against drought. And the media is going out of its way to spread the word. In …
75 years of people’s power: Telangana’s Ibrahimpur tackles grey water stagnation, mosquito breeding
Village is entirely dependent on groundwater for its potable and non-potable uses and this has helped make their water source sustainable
Union Budget 2019-20: Gush of funds for piped water
The government allocated Rs 9,150.36 crore for National Rural Drinking Water Programme — increase of 69% from last year
Toilet-rich, water-poor
Santosh Devi, a former sarpanch, says attaining total sanitation for her village was easier than ensuring clean and sweet water
The last common property
OSCAR OLIVERA is today an icon for all people's movements to regain control of their resources. He tells RICHARD MAHAPATRA why water is not for sale
Springs are flowing once again in these Uttarakhand villages, thanks to 'water champions'
After scientific interventions helped revive the dying springs in more than 300 villages, communities took the ownership of maintaining these …
Can quick-fix solutions address India’s growing water woes?
Non-profits and civil society organisations are increasingly opting for quick-fix solutions to all issues, a tendency that needs to be moderated
Modi’s rural sojourn: Take piped water to 4,620 households everyday
The challenge is to sustain supply; most habitations covered with drinking water have slipped back to non-covered status due to drying up of sources
A worsening water crisis in North Africa and the Middle East
Middle East and North African region is home to 7 per cent of the world's population but has access to only 1.5 per cent of its renewable …
A success story: How we restored 15 rural waterbodies in UP’s Gautam Buddha Nagar
Depleted groundwater levels, deteriorated water quality, garbage and wastewater inflow, etc, were some of the issues faced by these rural waterbodies
How can we save rural India from COVID-19
Since most rural homes don’t have functional tap connections, they have to be built on a war footing
Arsenic control
West Bengal, severely affected by arsenic in its groundwater, takes slow but steady steps to deal with it
Does rural India have enough water to sustain open-defecation free status?
While India is inching closer to being ODF, less than 20 per cent of rural households have piped water supply
How a state mission brought clean water to every household in villages with supply crisis
The project exemplifies how methodical intervention can end supply problems even in hydro-geologically complex areas
Mercury rises early
Heat waves follow a dry spell in Orissa and West Bengal, killing 80 people in April. Dust storms take Assam by surprise and Malwa scrambles for …
This earthy flavour helps locals in Odisha fight adverse climate
Leafy greens like mutthi saag come in handy for poor people to meet their nutritional requirements
Power trickles down
Successful cooperatives compel Maharashtra government to hand over control of irrigation facilities to farmers
Water crisis not due to of lack of resource, but mismanagement: Union minister at CSE conference
The minister was speaking at the 2023 Policy and Practice Forum, an international gathering of water, wastewater and sanitation management …
Injuries sustained while fetching water ‘hidden health challenge’: Study
Burden and risks associated with fetching water have been overlooked, says study authors
