New Religion

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

Sub-committee's report to frame water policy for industries

Liquid debt

A 138 km pipe dream

Shut and dried

Why has private participation in the urban water sector failed to take off?

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

Water distribution of Rajsamand Lake in Rajasthan cause of rift

Rivers of discord

Against the flow

Barrages spur protests

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

Drowning villages for 8 paise

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

Punjab's depleting groundwater stagnates agricultural growth

Grand distraction called river interlinking

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Power trickles down

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

Malwa is thirsty

Diminishing returns

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

Public good, private concerns

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

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 …

Saving future

Solution to crisis: start planning now