Climate change is a threat to Africa’s transport systems: What must be done

Worst-case disruptions to Tanzania’s multi-modal transport networks could cause losses of up to $1.4 million per day

Dengue - reality bites

The millions affected have many to curse -- the mosquitoes, officials and the scientific communityby Ritu Gupta

Drying reservoirs, low winter crop yield, and a simmering water crisis

About 300 districts have already been declared drought-hit by states 

These 2 coastal Karnataka towns are reviving their millennia-old water bodies; here’s how

Residents of Moodbidri and Karkala have taken it upon themselves to reclaim their natural heritage  

The negotiators

Of India's 18 major rivers, 17 are inter-state. In all cases, the water is intensely fought over. In all cases, there seems no resolution. In …

How to sustain municipal sanitation: Delhi’s Aya Nagar offers some lessons

The pilot project is a prototypical model for evolving a sanitation management programme in a high density settlement

The chase and the change: Let’s look back at 15 years of MGNREGA this World Water Day

The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act has shown what it can achieve by putting water conservation at its core

Restore malgujari tanks to irrigate eastern Vidarbha: study

Irrigation potential of 125,000 ha unused since 1950

Letters

Why better sewage management in Chennai will help fight floods

Down To Earth Editor Sunita Narain explains how the city's three rivers and 320 tanks and lakes that worked as flood barriers are used mostly for …

Tamil Nadu's temple tanks hold key to water recharge

But authorities cement tank beds and fail to restore water inlet channels

Will BJP’s projected win help Vidarbha’s cause?

Vidarbhavadis hope BJP, which during its earlier stint at the Centre carved out three new states, will be more sympathetic to their demands

Manual scavengers: Existing in the shade

Several government departments continue to maintain silence on plight of manual scavengers, despite an array of schemes for them