The flush, the city and the river

For the modern Indian city, the principle behind management of water and waste is a simple one: flush and forget. Not surprisingly, most cities …

Public good, private concerns

Odisha is becoming a testing ground for ADB’s aggressive water sector reforms

Water from waste

With water scarcity gripping many parts of the country, people are talking about rainwater harvesting, but none about wastewater, which can also …

Dream stuck in pipeline

The Melamchi project promised to end Kathmandu’s acute water shortage. But 15 years later, it is nowhere near completion

Emergency

Chennai, crippled by water crisis, is also a metaphor for what Indian cities are experiencing in sourcing and managing the most precious natural …

Central Water Commission overestimates the country's usable water resources

From water to water

Pee, poop and paani

Bharat Lal Seth recounts his experience of drinking water reclaimed from sewage

Saving future

Solution to crisis: start planning now

Hard rain down the drain

What's eating up the state's water

Duplicity

Big numbers

The state is on a spree

Water in the age of coronavirus

As we confront the new global enemy SARS-COV-2, the availability of water will be a crucial determinant for a successful outcome in this war  

Water woes in wet Kerala

More than 2,000 mm of rain in 2003 but crops destroyed and farmers committing suicide; crores spent on 31 irrigation projects but villages going …

Unrealistic approach killing rural sanitation programme

Injustice gets nastier

THE ROW GOES ON

Gujarat to set up water regulatory commission

Supa dam displaced lease out lands to paper mill

New Age Approach

We need to go back to the drawing board to reinvent a green toilet. If necessary, to go back to our past and find technological innovations that …

Drowning In Human Excreta

Sanitation for urban India means building flush toilets and linking them to sewer systems. But the price of chasing this dream is leading to an …

Rs 1,86,000 cr illusion

Andhra Pradesh’s Jalayagnam irrigation scheme unviable, contract-driven, says CAG draft report

Rich bias

THE SKEPTICAL ENVIRONMENTALIST Bjørn Lomborg · Cambridge University Press · Cambridge · 2001 · Pages: pp 515 &…

Construction on China's North-to-South water diversion project begins

A non-priority?

Environment managers do not count