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

Some househoulds have started reusing grey water and maintaining kitchen gardens

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 

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

Bengaluru’s water future

Water supply must be affordable. Only then can it be sustainable

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

Study charts indirect economic losses due to climate change-induced supply disruptions, calls for collaboration

India is likely to be affected directly by high temperatures and indirectly due to close links with countries severely impacted by heat stress

Africa faces hard knocks as rich countries take manufacturing back home

Those living in sub-Saharan Africa would be the hardest hit

Indian villages are 100% electrified, but what’s next?

Government must introduce policies that focus on utility of quality electricity than just connections

Live storage in India’s reservoirs increases by over 11% this week

Some 10 states had less-than-normal storage (the average for the last 10 years).

DTE Coverage: Bengaluru Water Crisis 2024

Why the city that abounded in lakes and rivers went waterless

Why is Bengaluru city facing the worst water crisis in its nearly 500-year history?

The situation might get worse as the next monsoon is still 100 days away

Red Sea crisis: Suez Canal is not the only ‘choke point’ that threatens to disrupt global supply chains

Choke points are narrow parts of main trade lanes, usually straits or canals

Simply Put: The thirsty crow

What’s behind the collapse in the price of nickel and how can the industry survive?

Last Friday his government added nickel to the official Critical Minerals List

Nord Stream leaks: Where will Europe get its gas from now?

The next two winters are going to be very challenging for all of Europe’s gas consumers

Scheduled for Day Zero

The cities with population above 1 million in 2016, which would face water scarcity in 2050

Improvising power trade in South Asia can ease renewable energy access in the region

India envisions to have an interconnected power grid in the South Asian region with many participating countries

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

Jodhpur blues: How the Indira Gandhi Canal has robbed the desert citadel of its character

There is ample water in what was once a water scarce place; traditional water bodies, architecture, social habits have consequently gone for a toss

Parched Garden City

How Bengaluru’s water crisis is of its own making 

What are the challenges of wastewater treatment in urban India?

Urban water and sanitation, stormwater management are now closely linked with rights and justice concerns; how do Indian cities fare on these fronts?

Why we need to look beyond the farm to achieve sustainability in agri-food systems

Time is ripe to start focusing on the whole agricultural value chain to tackle the three-fold challenges of rural livelihoods, climate adaptation …