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

Pay tax to get water

Stop looking to government

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

Coimbatore attempts to save waterbodies

Kathmandu's water supply plan gets going

Controversy over water tariffs in Mumbai

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

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

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

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 …

Double whammy

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

New housing to reuse water

Radioactive gas in drinking water

Water scarcity may cause upto 6% loss in GDP: World Bank

Water shortage may also increase migration and conflicts in some regions, finds a World Bank report

Planning Commission report on groundwater downplays industrial exploitation

Heavy metals polluting Kolkata's groundwater