Salted lands of Australia

Bad cropping practices and ill-planned water management leads to salted Australian farmland

Punjab's depleting groundwater stagnates agricultural growth

New housing to reuse water

Grand distraction called river interlinking

Blind to rain

How climate ready are we?

Planning Commission report on groundwater downplays industrial exploitation

Born Again

A rural organisation breathes life into the listless people of Melaghar village

Solo Performances

Besides the communities who have done exemplary work in the field of environment, several individuals are making a difference in the lives of …

Above All Differences

A caste-ridden society transforms the depleted forests into a green haven

Hamlets reborn

Although Bhaonta-Kolyala village walked away with the Down To Earth-Joseph C John Award, the judges came across several such communities worthy …

Working women

In Guraiya village , it's women empowerment all the way

Awarded : Bhaonta-Kolyala

... for reviving the Arvari river, for showing that a healthy ecology and good water management mean prosperity, for proving that drought is a myth

Parched capital

While Delhi struggles to make rainwater harvesting compulsory even after 13 years of amending byelaws, Chennai shows the way

How an urban planner undertook green recovery in Telangana’s 72 ULBs

Extensive mapping, designing of parks with detailed cost estimates and implementation frameworks were prepared as part of the project 

These mobile weather stations can help cope with floods, landslides

Sri Lanka’s indigenously developed device could help other developing nations, too, deal with climate impacts

Power trickles down

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

A watershed plan

Recurrent droughts and floods coupled with mass poverty, chronic unemployment and pervasive malnutrition are the major challenges before India. …

Why better sewage management in Chennai will help fight floods

Down To Earth Editor Sunita Narain explains how the city's three rivers and 320 tanks and lakes that worked as flood barriers are used mostly for …

Climate science in real world

Urban farming now covers area equal to size of Europe, says study

Farming by city dwellers plays major role in food security, finds the study

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 …

A belief in tradition

It was a unique ceremony for a unique award given to a unique rural community of India. In what is perhaps the first ceremony of its kind, …

Public good, private concerns

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

Drought is in the mind

GOOD NEWS: There is more evidence to show that water harvesting can go a long way in dealing with drought and solving the water crisis, and even …