Employment guarantee scheme not in sync with Mastapur's needs

A trial with too many errors

Infighting within AAP post its brute win in Delhi raises doubts about civil society's tryst with electoral politics

Shut and dried

Why has private participation in the urban water sector failed to take off?

Australian town says no to drinking recycled sewage

New report on skewed urbanisation in India

Water wise

Double whammy

Increasing pollution, depleting water table make groundwater in Kathmandu unfit for drinking

Power trickles down

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

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 …

Common sense delivers

Murli Mohan Sharma opted out.

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 …

Drying up of an empire

Water crisis behind the decline of Angkor Wat

Water woes in wet Kerala

More than 2,000 mm of rain in 2003 but crops destroyed and farmers committing suicide; crores spent on 31 irrigation projects but villages going …

Unrealistic approach killing rural sanitation programme

Injustice gets nastier

An open letter to Devendra Fadnavis

As the new chief minister of Maharashtra wins the trust vote in the state Assembly, these are a few things that need his urgent attention

India's gold follies and food security

Why are lawmakers so ready to forego huge tax revenues on gold but baulk at spending on food for the poor?

Ecologically mindless

The flush toilet system and the sewage system, which goes with modern day personal hygiene and cleanliness, are part of the environmental problem …

Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal

Poor count

Defining poverty is crucial to make the food security bill effective

Curse of excess

Once a parched city, Jodhpur is today facing a deluge

Renal emergency

Sri Lanka’s north-central region has been facing a health crisis for two decades. A large number of people in the region suffer from …

Catching rain

Mizos turn to rainwater harvesting as alternative option

Will welfare schemes win votes for UPA?

An analysis of Brazil’s last three elections suggests that peopleÔÇêdo vote for parties for such initiatives, but only when …

Pure myth

When was the last time you drank water straight from the tap at your house to slake thirst on a hot summer day, without hesitation. Chances are …