MGNREGA: 15 years of moving from crisis to solutions

How the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme been used by India 

World Water Day: How Indian villages used 15 years of MGNREGA

A look at how the world’s largest public wage programme has helped fight water shortage and revive India’s agrarian economy

This green oasis is a drought-proof village in Rajasthan

The miracle was brought about mostly through the revival of traditional water-harvesting structures 

Stepwells in Gujarat are a lesson on community-based water harvesting

Gujarat can find solace in its traditional water monuments. For that, it first needs to restore them

India’s new hydro map

The blue represents the spread of the 30 million water-related structures built under MGNREGA. The darker the shade, the higher the number of …

Consume with care to avoid water scarcity

Common sense when nature calls

A model to emulate

Involve all stakeholders and train worksite supervisors and labourers to make MGNREGA benefit everyone  

This indigenous tribe of Kenya needs the world’s attention

The Sengwer hunter-gatherer people of the Embobut forest are being criminalised and dispossessed of their ancestral lands by the Kenyan State

Water level in reservoirs now at 25% of live storage capacity; southern, central regions worst affected

Reservoirs in central India saw the biggest drop in water levels to 29 per cent from 43 per cent in 2017

Water and wit

Book notice: Farmer-led Participatory Research - Cases from Western India

Centralised models of development don't work; local knowledge and traditional methods do, especially in the realms of farming and water …

The much talked about Shirpur Model in Maharashtra

“Shirpur model”, is being projected as a “miracle cure” for drought. What is this much talked about Shirpur model all about?

How DTE covered World Water Day 2023

A national workshop held in Lucknow by CSE on ‘Sustainable and Inclusive Sanitation and Water for All’ highlighted the steps Uttar …

With half a million new farm ponds, should farmers be worried about deficit monsoon?

In the last 12 years, the MGNREGA has created at least 46 new water harvesting structures in every village

Telangana requests central aid for tank restoration

Mission Kakatiya is a flagship programme aimed at restoring tanks and water bodies in the state. This will help small and marginal farmers …

Flush and forget

IIT Kanpur develops zero-waste toilets that reuse flushed water and recycle waste

Parched future

Parched Koalas

Dye farming

Cheap option to treat effluent

Secrets of the water fort

Planners in the ancient city of Dholavira had conceptualised an amazing system of drains, dams and tanks to manage water. To conserve every drop …

Reform begins at home

Large promises

Prime Minister Vajpayee is terribly interested in rural development these days. On his birthday he inaugurated Swajaldhara, a nation-wide water …

Oxygen parks, protected grasslands: A small Maharashtra village’s efforts in environmental conservation 

The efforts of the villagers are driven by a common goal of leaving behind a healthy home for posterity

Lessons from Tauktae: Can extreme weather help with rainwater harvesting?

Cyclone Tauktae that crossed Gujarat as an ‘extremely severe cyclonic storm’, caused heavy rainfall in semi-arid places