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

A bank to save the embarrassment of riches

Surplus food from hotels in the Capital is no longer thrown away: A non-profit organisation that started recently collects the food and …

People's participation in resource management

Pumping iron

The training of women in the maintenance of hand-pumps has not only flooded them with confidence, it has rescued a government water supply …

Is a 24-hour water supply possible?

An answer to this question was attempted at a workshop organised in Hyderabad, from September 23-24, 2003, by the Administrative Staff College of …

Fair distribution

Women's self-help groups run ration shops in Chhattisgarh

On privatising water

What about privatising water? Should India move to do it? What tips the scales in its favour, and what doesn't? In 2003, two editorials in Down …

Economy of slippage

Bengaluru catches drops

Act mandating rainwater harvesting boosts sale of filters

Disappearing act

Overexploitation, increasing salinity and industrial pollution are threatening groundwater resources in several parts of the country

Tamil Nadu readies pond plan

Red alert in the east

Real estate developers and government agencies are devouring the wetlands in communist-ruled Calcutta

Winds of change?

Disaster management chaos leaves Orissa as vulnerable as before

Is it the end?

For two historical water bodies in Hyderabad

The drowning of a city

There are both in Delhi - criminal waste, unendurable want. And in this city of verdant veneers, nowhere does the callous politics of …

Agro-culture gets its due

Halogen wars

Water purifier makers in court over advertisement

Coimbatore attempts to save waterbodies

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