Bengaluru’s water future

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

Climate change and water: Upside down

Redesign the water sequence to bring equity in supply

WELCOME TO ESCAPE TOWN

Scientists predict a total system crash in July 2018 for Cape Town’s water supply

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 …

TIMELY GIFT

Who will provide water security to Chennai?

Chennai is battling sever water crisis with daily water supply of 550 mn l/day against a required 1,200 mn l/d

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,…

Public private prank

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 …

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

Fair distribution

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

Food for thought

A happy picture painted by a recent FAO report gives way to grim realities about global food situation

People's participation in resource management

Safe drinking water

THAILAND

NORTH KOREA

Flow row

Project spawns local water rights dispute in Nepal

Injuries sustained while fetching water ‘hidden health challenge’: Study

Burden and risks associated with fetching water have been overlooked, says study authors

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 …

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 …

Water riddles

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

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

Saurashtra Coast

Pushed out by salt