You are the government

To hell and Back

How TBS helped communities revive the rural environment

The turmoil beneath

How landslides of the 1998 kind in Garhwal can be prevented

Clueless in drought

Everybody loves a good drought. Few understand it. Especially the Indian media

Ecocare

Relearning rain

Drastic step

Andhra government mulls draconian laws on rainwater harvesting

Restoring lakes

Project pipedream

In Court

In scarcity zone

Tamil Nadu’s Namakkal has some solutions for India’s rising water woes

Rooftop collection systems, percolation tanks and check dams were constructed to capture rainwater and replenish the groundwater table

‘Futures trading can bring efficiency to California’s water sector’

Michael Kiparsky from the University of California tells Down To Earth that fears about futures trading in water commoditising it are …

Can quick-fix solutions address India’s growing water woes?

Non-profits and civil society organisations are increasingly opting for quick-fix solutions to all issues, a tendency that needs to be moderated 

Chennai’s water wars

The water-stressed city has been preying for a long time on aquifers in its neighbourhood, with often violent results, an analysis of its civic …

Singapore’s journey from a water scarce to a water secure nation

Singapore has tapped every opportunity to collect, treat, reuse and produce necessary water resources

'India can learn from other regions on the need to adopt proactive drought management policies'

FAO expert Mohamed Bazza speaks on how climate change is expected to make drought worse and how the adoption of proactive drought management …

The forgotten waters of Sanchi

Come monsoon, and archaeologists will be testing the revival of an Ancient water harvesting system in this historic Buddhist town

Coming back to life

When villages work with each other to regenerate the environment, there are unexpected blessings. Sometimes, they are as big as a river

Making waves

The rain dance over water harvesting structures is on. But it's also time for the government to think of making them sustainable

Cutting out waste

The Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) has recently initiated ecofriendly pilot projects at its Bangalore aircraft division, which will not only …

The people's environmentalist

Anupam Mishra nurtured India's environmental movement and environmentalists

Water, Africa's Gold: How water is now more expensive than food in parts of the Continent

Living with nature

Urban living ought to aim towards the sustainable symbiosis of nature and architecture

Rain catcher

For his outstanding work in rainwater harvesting, Rajendra Singh gets the Magsaysay award