Polavaram fraud

The Polavaram dam on the Godavari could displace 400,000 people and submerge nearly 4,000 hectares of forestland. Most of the people threatened …

Cauvery row: Karnataka ordered to release 15,000 cusecs daily to Tamil Nadu for the next 10 days

Order passed keeping in mind the difficulty Tamil Nadu farmers would face in growing samba rice in the absence of Cauvery river water

Dots not joined

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World awakes to new danger: use of water as weapon of war

Using water as a weapon to weaken people is a tactic used in Syria, other countries of West Asia and Africa

War zone Cauvery

Karnataka and Tamil Nadu are once again at loggerheads over the sharing of the Cauvery waters. Why have the successive agreements failed to …

Tamil Nadu farmers want Centre to take unbiased view of Cauvery dispute

They launched a 48-hour state-wide rail blockade demanding the constitution of Cauvery Management Board

India, Pakistan and dilemma over Indus treaty abrogation

Experts are wallowing in a debate on whether India should review the treaty to teach the enemy state a lesson

Corridor of uncertainty

A village in Bihar looks to India for recognition—and to Nepal for water  

Bid for Mahadayi

Should Karnataka divert the Mahadayi's water to end the water crisis in its three districts?

Cauvery tribunal award is finally notified

Protests feared in Karnataka; government beefs up security in the river basin delta areas and around KRS reservoir near Mysore

Warring over water

While issues like Cauvery water sharing and Indus Treaty figured prominently in 2016, other inter-state water conflicts could be on the anvil as …

Cauvery row: SC directs Karnataka to release 283 cumec water to Tamil Nadu

Asks Cauvery Monitoring Committee headed-by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to meet within two days and decide water sharing between the two states

Telangana might say no to Polavaram

The mega irrigation project will irrigate coastal Andhra but submerge vast areas in Telengana

Passive neighbour

India remains indifferent as China builds dams on upper reaches of Brahmaputra  

Andhra to challenge Krishna tribunal award in Supreme Court

Final award on sharing Krishna waters takes away most of the surplus water given to the state by earlier tribunal

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 …

In deep water

Rivers Krishna and Mahanadi are in crisis. In the race to industrialise, states have drawn plans to exploit their last drop. For four decades, …

Highlights of the monsoon session: what the Parliament discussed

Important discussions and reports tabled in the Parliament in from July 17 to August 11

Access Denied

Narmada crusader says the space for mass movements on water is shrinking

Cauvery tribunal award notified

Disgruntled Karnataka chief minister writes to prime minister

Farmers face police wrath, 3 killed

75 villages protest government decision to give their water to Pune  

Babhali, barrage of contention

Chandrababu NaiduÔÇÖs arrest reignites the Godavari dispute

Why excreta matters? Sunita Narain answers

Cauvery dispute: Karnataka delegation urges prime minister not to notify tribunal award

State delegation demands reassessment of water needs of Tamil Nadu

Karnataka to divert Mahadayi water

Goa cries foul. Supreme Court orders tribunal to settle dispute