Bombay High Court allows inaugural IPL match to commence

Questions the timing of the petition filed against water being provided to cricket stadia for IPL matches in drought-hit Maharashtra

Bombay High Court slams cricket associations on 'criminal waste of water' for IPL

Are people more important or IPL, Court asks associations of drought-hit Maharashtra and Mumbai

A billion could be without water in Asia by 2050

New research explains that growth in economy and population along with climate change are building water-stress

'India has highest number of people without access to safe water'

A new report states that poor management of water resources is the biggest problem holding India back from reaching all of its population …

High and dry in Nepal

Country’s most-arid region is getting less rain than it did before, forcing villages to relocate

Drowning villages for 8 paise

The Par-Tapi Narmada Link project will earn 8 paise on a rupee

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, …

News 360° - Briefs

A slum's daily struggle with water

A 17-year-old boy, a resident of Jagdamba Camp in South Delhi's Malviya Nagar captures how his community deals with the lack or excess of water. …

Reflection in a pond

As urban residents switch to municipal water, the labour class struggles with disappearing ponds, their main water source. Sorit Gupto …

Dehydrated state of America

As California enters the fourth year of the worst drought it has seen in over 1,200 years, Venkat Srinivasan travels through America's most …

Every drop counts

Look where the world stands as it celebrates Water Day on March 22

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

Why excreta matters? Sunita Narain answers

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 …

Letters

In hot water

Update

Sharing the succour

Let peace flow like water..

WATERSHED: THE ROLE. OF FRESH WATER IN THE ISRAEU-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT Stephen C Lonergan and David B Brooks Published by: International …

The water war

The watermark offailure on the Government of India's mantle glares everybody in theface, as two warring riparian states flex their muscles in …

Cauvery: manage demand, not supply

The Philippines

Delhi breeds water inequity

The water thirsty capital is the perfect example of how not to manage water. Tracing where the three billion litres disappear everyday

Probing farmers' potential