Dream stuck in pipeline

The Melamchi project promised to end Kathmandu’s acute water shortage. But 15 years later, it is nowhere near completion

Making water-excreta accounts

Grand distraction called river interlinking

How smart is a smart city?

Urban growth model needs reality check

I really have no problem with the World Bank

Pipe dreams

Fix what is broken

Corporation for Sustainable Development

A tale of two cities

The true cost of water

Grow food anywhere

With innovative use of space, people in cities are reclaiming their right to safe food

Model in a fix

Chhattisgarh's much appreciated public distribution scheme is falling apart due to corruption and mismanagement

From water to water

Biofuel good idea, bad practice

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 …

Natures own water purifiers

River banks are efficient water filters. Haridwar shows how to make most of them

24x7 water in the 1700s

300-year-old aqueduct to get protected heritage statu

A fluid right

Campaign to make water and sanitation a right gathers momentum

Their own suppliers

Scarcity teaches a village in Orissa how to manage its water supply  

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

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,…

Sydney takes water scarcity seriously