Mercury rises early

Heat waves follow a dry spell in Orissa and West Bengal, killing 80 people in April. Dust storms take Assam by surprise and Malwa scrambles for …

Delhi government releases plan to tackle water shortage

Groundwater from the Palla-Wazirabad floodplain in the city can reduce the pressure on the water supply system

Water turns the tide

A barren district of Rajasthan is seeing development, thanks to rains last year and flood in 2006

Arsenic control

West Bengal, severely affected by arsenic in its groundwater, takes slow but steady steps to deal with it

A home-grown drought

Monsoon this year has failed most of India, causing drought in even well-irrigated and rainfed areas. Ravleen Kaur reports how our food …

Letter

SOLUTION FOR THIRST

The politics of water

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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

Traditional irrigation fails themoney test

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DEEP TUBEWELLS

Municipality blamed for Delhi water poisoning

Municipal authorities in Delhi deny they were responsible for the deaths of eight people caused by contaminated water

Land subsides in groundwater-guzzling UP districts

Central Uttar Pradesh is literally on shaky ground. Land subsidence has been reported from several districts of the region, including Fatehpur, …

Bihar, UP move to check misuse of groundwater

Separate feeders for homes, fields in Maharashtra

In a lather

Soaps, tubewells are causing arsenic contamination

GMR jumps the gun

Begins constructing power plant in Chhattisgarh, illegally

Punjab's depleting groundwater stagnates agricultural growth

POISONOUS WATERS

Water crisis: a case study of Jabalpur

Jabalpur's shrinking lakes needs sincere planning and community participation

Diminishing returns