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 …

Funds denied

Quest for water: Tribals in Gujarat village use traditional methods to end shortage

Some househoulds have started reusing grey water and maintaining kitchen gardens

Moral issue in a bathtub

The great water rip-off

UNICEF commends India

Standing up for water

LIBYA

Parched future

A fluid right

Campaign to make water and sanitation a right gathers momentum

Residents’ lives in this Jodhpur basti revolve around water

Only downhill houses have water connections, others walk for several kilometres or are forced to use plastic pipes, pumps 

Looking beyond privatisation

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Empowered by water: Women’s quality of life improves with household access to water supply

Women can save time to find avenues of additional income 

75 years of people’s power: Lalsot in Rajasthan is helping rural areas to treat their faecal sludge

This is an example of the informal use of urban facilities to treat rural faecal sludge

How COVID-19 measures have affected food safety in East Africa

Livestock and cereal farmers faced a drastic loss of demand

Bangalore parched

The garden city will have to walk on a bed of thorns with water supply becoming a scarce commodity by the turn of the century

Urban water management in Singapore

Singapore may just have discovered a remedy to reduce water wastage at the household level. The city is known for its long-standing efforts at …

Smart but pricey

Why automatic water meter technology is not the best idea for households

Drop by drop

BETTER LIVING

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

Of sunshine and oasis

A new solar pump brings water to the doorsteps of people living in remote areas

All rivers to Delhi?

In their greed for more water for the capital city, planners duck the question of wasteful expenditure of local water sources

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 …