World Water Week 2023: Demand and pollution of the precious resource are increasing, which is not a good sign

While India, on the whole, is water secure, the situation is grim in some states and Union Territories. In business-as-usual scenario, more …

Sustainable cold chains can address climate, food crises: UNEP & FAO report

Governments, cold chain stakeholders should collaborate to adopt systems approach, develop national cooling action plans

Live storage increases marginally in India’s major reservoirs, as monsoon picks up

The eastern region has the lowest storage, followed by the northern, western and  central regions as of July 7

Food poverty growing among older adults in India: LASI study

Nearly 6% of individuals in India aged 45 and above studied consumed smaller portions or skipped meals; 5.3% did not eat even when they were …

IIT Kharagpur to steer Saraswati 2.0 for reuse of treated water

The institution will steer three pilot projects to treat wastewater, make it re-usable and also explore its usage in compost or value …

At death's door

Around three million people are estimated to be severely food-insecure in north-eastern Nigeria, South Sudan and Somalia. The writer looks at the …

Fast food chains progress on antibiotic policy, but action fragmented

The policies remain fragmented with focus limited to certain food animal species or markets

Sanitary insights

January 2, 2017, is the 15th death anniversary of Anil Agarwal, founder of the Centre for Science and Environment and Down To Earth. This year, …

Asian, African cities rank low on water sustainability

Poor quality of water and inability to withstand natural disasters are affecting sustainability index of cities

A slum's daily struggle with water

A 17-year-old boy, a resident of Jagdamba Camp in South Delhi's Malviya Nagar captures how his community deals with the lack or excess of water. …

Perpetual Thirst

It has been 45 years since the first national water supply programme. This and many thousand crore of rupees later, more than half of India's …

Power trickles down

Successful cooperatives compel Maharashtra government to hand over control of irrigation facilities to farmers

Letters

The flush, the city and the river

For the modern Indian city, the principle behind management of water and waste is a simple one: flush and forget. Not surprisingly, most cities …

Access to water is a crisis for the powerless

Fair access to water is an issue for millions of people in India. Who controls access and how this is governed needs fixing  

Bengaluru water crisis: BWSSB announces 20% water cut to bulk consumers; identifies areas bearing the brunt 

Companies, hospitals, crematoria & graveyards, schools, railways and airport to take a hit  

Now, Hyderabad joins list of places suffering from severe water crisis

There is a gap of 47 per cent between demand and supply of water in the city

Drying up of an empire

Water crisis behind the decline of Angkor Wat

Madhya Pradesh's high-tech solution for PDS

State links PDS to UID to plug leakages in food supplies but gaps remain  

Fixing the drought

To uplift the poor it is important to understand the root cause of poverty

Morocco — a top fertiliser producer — could hold a key to the world’s food supply

Morocco plans to produce an additional 8.2 million tonnes of phosphorus fertiliser by 2026

COVID-19 and the changing face of child labour

The number of children working as child labourers came down by 100 million in last two decades; but COVID-19 pandemic has undone a lot …

Powerless firms

The crippling discom business needs fundamental restructuring for a future in renewable energy

Implement Food Security Act properly, demand activists protesting hunger deaths

They claim that most of the 45 people, who died of hunger in the country in the past one year, were denied food on failing Aadhaar identification

'BRICS countries in a position to shape agricultural policies'

Most of the world’s 795 million undernourished people live in developing countries. These countries will need to increase their food …