Death pits darken green fields in Haryana

Carbon dioxide trapped in pits built for tubewell motors in Haryana's green revolution districts have killed hundreds of farm-workers. Scientists …

Collective spirit an Indian myth or policy failure?

It's political

Water scarcity in a Faridkot village

A village crippled by fluorosis

Government offers Rs 25,000 each to 109 BPL families to relocate; villagers turn down the offer

Ground reality

As the water crisis surfaces yet again, illegal borewells spring up in and around Delhi. Binayak Das and Suresh Babu on a plummeting water table …

Rajasthan village goes beyond caste, fights for water resources

Monsoon-friendly Assam reeling under drought

Double whammy

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

Emergency

Chennai, crippled by water crisis, is also a metaphor for what Indian cities are experiencing in sourcing and managing the most precious natural …

Curse of copper

After fouling 10 Madhya Pradesh villages with heavy metals and acid, HCL is set to expand its mine

The dark zone

When Down To Earth correspondents nidhi jamwal and d b manisha started filing their reports on the problem of fluoride and arsenic in groundwater,…

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 …

Water crisis: a case study of Jabalpur

Jabalpur's shrinking lakes needs sincere planning and community participation

Diminishing returns

Wahtech

But what has the state done?

Wah India

Arsenic

SOLUTION FOR THIRST

The politics of water

GROUNDWATER MARKETS AND IRRIGATION DEVELOPMENT: POLITICAL ECONOMY AND PRACTICAL POLICY by Tushaar Shah Publisher: Oxford University Press Price: …

New Bill aims to restrict groundwater use

The government is preparing legislation to regulate the use of tubewells because water-tables in the country are falling rapidly. But the …

Shallow tubewell no good

Conflicting interests

Silent killers

Pakistan village refuses water diversion