An urban puzzle

India’s population and cities are set to double by 2030. Can it cope with the pressures?

Bad water for Srinagar's upmarket areas

Springs of life India's water resources

Bengaluru is battling a crisis, but it must leverage water for peace

Sound urban planning is needed to avert such crises

Day Zero is meant to cut Cape Town's water use: what is it, and is it working?

Tough water restrictions and punitive tariffs will drive down water demand, helping to postpone Day Zero

Holes in the pipeline!

Water supply in urban areas is met partly by public systems and partly, by the private sector

Coimbatore attempts to save waterbodies

Stop looking to government

Individual initiatives can go a long way in solving the energy crisis  

Kathmandu's water supply plan gets going

Controversy over water tariffs in Mumbai

75 years of people’s power: Lalsot in Rajasthan is helping rural areas to treat their faecal sludge

This is an example of the informal use of urban facilities to treat rural faecal sludge

Value your local water system

Bengaluru floods should draw our attention to how the same tragic story of loss of waterbodies in almost all Indian cities. But will it?&…

World Cities Day: Clock ticking for India’s urban areas; act now, say experts

The time has come for active policies to make sustainable modes work for all income levels, they say

How we source water for cities: Lessons Tehri taught

A look at how complex the ecological and social consequences of our urban water management can be

New Delhi is running out of water

Access to clean and regular water remains a challenge for New Delhi, a city that could easily tackle its water crisis with greater effort

Shut and dried

Why has private participation in the urban water sector failed to take off?

Australian town says no to drinking recycled sewage

New report on skewed urbanisation in India

Liquid debt

In court

A 138 km pipe dream

A trial with too many errors

Infighting within AAP post its brute win in Delhi raises doubts about civil society's tryst with electoral politics

Karachi expressway elicits protests

Thirsty by the river

Reflection in a pond

As urban residents switch to municipal water, the labour class struggles with disappearing ponds, their main water source. Sorit Gupto …