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

Water: The clock is ticking

Day Zero has been postponed to next year for Capetonians. When is your turn? Are you ready?

Water in news on April 16

Here’s a round-up of today’s news reports and developments around water

Holes in the pipeline!

Water supply in urban areas is met partly by public systems and partly, by the private sector

Wiped out

Modernisation is pushing many traditional occupations dependent on water to the brink of extinction

Researchers develop new technology for water management, flood control

The frequency of recording data is higher and it is more economical when compared to tools available in the market currently

Water levels in India’s major reservoirs deficient by 40 per cent

The 91 water reservoirs in the country have a total storage capacity of 157.799 billion cubic metres, which is about 62 per cent of India’s …

Seeking ways to quench Delhi's growing thirst

Beleaguered as the Capital's authorities are by increasing demand, large-scale wastage and heavy, unsustainable subsidies, the need for a more …

A new paradigm

Taming The Waters·Satyajit Singh·Oxford University Press·Price Rs 395

Together they conquered

A village committee in Orissa improves the fate of its poverty-stricken people with dedication and determination

A grand water helpline

the timing, and background, of the recently concluded 3rd World Water Forum in Japan ensured that water be seen through the lens of conflict. …

Water rights and entitlements

Book>> Water and the laws in India edited by Ramaswamy R Iyer Sage Publication, Delhi Indian Price Rs 995

Irrigation policy

Government criticised

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

Simply Put: Investments are subject to weather risk

The people's environmentalist

Anupam Mishra nurtured India's environmental movement and environmentalists

From Ram rajya to scientific farming

In Focus

China

Healing Afghanistan

The karez system could solve the country's water problems

TAPPING GROUNDWATER

Smooth sailing

Ten African nations show how a river can be shared peacefully

The flow's not smooth

UN water report on what ails water management today

Arrested development

Bihar's flood-drought oscillation still has little recognition