Back to the future

Ahead of polls, BPL politics in Chhattisgarh

Difficult to digest

After much debate, the Cabinet cleared the food security bill. Will it really ensure food for every Indian?

Turn on the tap

Why do Americans buy expensive bottled water when they have high quality tap water? That’s been an abiding enquiry for PETER GLEICK. …

High ammonia content in Yamuna

Maharashtra braces for water emergency

No rains in October, coupled with high temperatures, have aggravated the crisis

Why excreta matters? Sunita Narain answers

Rajasthan mine workers form cooperatives

Give small players in food retail a new deal

Online

Ears have been picked, where is the info?

UPDATE: Food crunch

Fix what is broken

Ideas to save government money

FAO claims new platform to help fight food loss, wastage

Global body estimates that 14% of food is lost annually and leads to emission of around 1.5 gigatonnes of CO2

UN 2023 Water Conference: 46 years after Mar del Plata, it’s time to examine the successes and failures

Access to clean water and sanitation remains a significant challenge in many parts of the world, particularly in low-income countries and …

Curtain raiser: Here is what we can expect from the upcoming UN 2023 Water Conference

Conference will focus on ensuring that countries deliver on promises already made and are designed to be action-oriented, inclusive and cross-sectoral

Water quality deteriorating in Kochi, reveals audit

Only 24 per cent households implement water conservation measures like reuse and recycling

Below Poverty Line census: fudging figures?

A survey currently underway in states to calculate the number of below poverty line households is being opposed tooth and nail by civil society …

Addicted to groundwater

High Court order fails to wean Gurgaon off illegal wells

China lacks sewage facilities

COVID-19: A long lull for Kashmir’s cherry, strawberry growers

Farmers struggle to find consumers, exports badly hit due to lockdown 

After Cape Town, another place in South Africa is fighting off a ‘Day Zero’ water crisis

Dam levels at 16%; fixing leaks and reducing consumption among measures taken

If only cities can see wetlands

It is time we realised that a water body is not an ornamental luxury or a wasted land

Parties steal Congress show

BJP-ruled Chhattisgarh enacts its own food security law, non-Congress states to follow