Pay and take

A High Powered Committee on efficient allocation of natural resources and telecom spectrum puts market above people

Coal blocks on offer

Under new policy, Centre offers 17 blocks with total reserve of 8.5 billion tonnes to state-run firms

Channels of change

Two villages in Uttar Pradesh have reversed the trend of migration by digging six kilometres of channels to bring water to drought-hit farms

New Religion

The saffron-clad sadhus and former dacoits now find a ritual for social restructuring and acceptance: water harvesting. They are building "…

Figure it out yourself

A striking fact about water in India is the lack of reliable data about all its aspects: total potential, available supply and demand

Barrages spur protests

Odisha wants to dam surplus water downstream of Hirakud dam. But where’s the surplus?  

Power trickles down

Successful cooperatives compel Maharashtra government to hand over control of irrigation facilities to farmers

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 …

Going off course

As the Cauvery river dispute between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu gets reduced to a politico-legal wrangle, focal issues remain unaddressed

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 …

Rivers, up close and personal

Over centuries people have learnt to live with rivers. They are part of our lives but over the past 150 years this association has weakened. A …

Cleansing chronicle

THE SANITARY CITY: URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE FROM COLONIAL TIMES TO THE PRESENT·Martin V Melosi·John Hopkins University Press·Year&…

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 …

Rs 1,86,000 cr illusion

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

Parched Mumbai

The news is out: water levels in Mumbai are over 15 per cent less than last year. It might seem routine but it has the city up in arms. …

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, …

That sinking feeling

PLANET Earth would have been an utterly lifeless blob of space debris if it hadn't been for the water that covers 70 per cent of its surface. But …

In hot water

Update

Managing the mega irrigation beast

With better management, mega irrigation schemes can fulfil their large purpose

Sharing the succour

Cauvery: manage demand, not supply

The Philippines

Probing farmers' potential