Open letter to Prime Minister Vajpayee

Split wide open

Officials, experts differ on cause of check-dam breach

Fresh look: Video Review

Changing Currents (six films, 26-minute each) produced by TVE International 2003 English

In Short

A look at floods in Rajasthan's Barmer district

Rajasthan flash floods can drought-proof state

Recession is elsewhere

Water crisis not due to of lack of resource, but mismanagement: Union minister at CSE conference

The minister was speaking at the 2023 Policy and Practice Forum, an international gathering of water, wastewater and sanitation management …

Land restoration target revised to 26 mln ha: Experts call for strategy overhaul

Due caution must be exercised in setting standards and policies for restoration of degraded lands, say experts

A ‘One Water’ approach is key to combat urban challenges, manage resources

Shift needed from single-minded, linear water management to multi-dimensional integrated water management technique

In-depth: Climate change and water

In a world driven by climate change water, as a public resource, has become crucial. In this series, four experts look at different …

Distress looms over water-starved Chennai

People of other parts of Tamil Nadu — home to about 67 million people — have also been hurt 

Bundelkhand's bravehearts

For villages that survived recurring droughts, the economic-ecological connection makes more sense

Water strongholds

Chittor and Ranthambhore. Proud traditions of valour, chivalry and patriotism are complemented by one of common sense in the storage and use of …

A social force called water

The state is struggling to meet the rising water demand. It is time to learn from the days when people arranged their own water. In cities and in …

Rainwater rights

The government- NGO friction at Lava ka Baas has opened a Pandora's box water ownership, archaic laws and hopeful communities that want to hold …

‘Harvesting water from air can help reimagine water infrastructure for humanity this century’

Founder of Bengaluru-based startup explains how sustainable the technology is

Community enterprise unlimited

Banking on water

The Union government earmarks Rs 500 crore for augmentation of traditional water sources

Green university

Anna University is turning green with serious efforts to curtail pollution within the campus

Shallow pledges

The country's new water policy is nothing more than noble intentions

Deep cleansing

Rainwater harvesting can purge pollutants too

A lesson not learnt

Not only depletion, sparse data on Himalayan springs is also a big concern

Greater awareness, understanding and a national springs’ inventory can help achieve water security for the future

In-depth coverage: Drought, but why

Drought now affects people across classes. India needs a new strategy for disaster management

One missed opportunity, 330 million drought-stricken Indians

We could have been drought-proof by 2010 had we only harvested rainwater. Sixteen years later, India's villages are paying the price