'Change perception about wastewater'

Blanca Jimnez-Cisneros, director of the division of water sciences and secretary of International Hydrological Programme, Unesco, talks to …

Sponge it clean

Scrap the waste

Smells like green spirit

Jal Shakti Abhiyan: What can make it more impactful

While the government has ambitious plans to solve the ongoing water crisis, there is a need to clearly spell out the scheme’s outcomes and …

Wastewater resource, not liability: Moving towards circular economy

If recovered fully from wastewater, there would be a reduction in global demand for nutrients in agriculture  

Recycling is the answer to India’s water woes

Frankfurt recycles a drop of water eight times before it reaches the sea, as compared to zero in India

Dye filter

An improvised bio-sand filter helps Nepal dyers treat toxic effluents

Gold nano particles can detect lead in wastewater

Gold changes colour in the presence of metal particles such as lead because of their optical properties

Grown on waste

Bangalore to get treated wastewater

IISc researchers devise new wastewater recycling system

The new wastewater treatment and recycling system has saved 180,000 litres in a Karnataka village in a year

How to resolve Karnataka water crisis

At the peak of Karnataka’s water crisis, the state’s deputy chief minister, G Parameshwara, made a desperate suggestion. He said the …

Your future food will be grown with waste water

If used properly, waste water can provide important nutrients for plant growth and act as a replacement for mineral fertilisers

Every drop matters

If water efficiency is the agenda for agriculture, then water recycling has to be the agenda for cities and industries

An urban puzzle

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

Spoilt for choice

Are cheap food prices reason to cheer?

Misled about water

VidarbhaÔÇÖs farmers protest the Maharashtra governmentÔÇÖs attempt to build yet another thermal power plant by depriving …

Decentralised wastewater solutions the need of the hour for India

With the country hurtling towards a water crisis and treated wastewater a possible alternative, using models that are different from the …

Holes in the pipeline!

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

Subverting a basic human right

A draft water policy proposes to make water an economic good

Stop looking to government

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

Loo and behold

Water ATM

Sarvajal makes clean drinking water accessible to people

Fish and a philosophy

A cooperative in Kolkata shows the way for urban sewage management