Crisis in West Asia

Unless drastic steps are taken, West Asian countries will soon face severe water crisis

Your drinking water spiked

Pesticide residues in bottled water

Packaged drinking water or natural mineral water is everywhere. It is now available in pouches, cups, bottles and bulky transparent jars. It is …

Instant quality check of rivers

Electronic sensors to monitor pollutants in Yamuna, Ganga

Default drinking water

'Corporate Responsibility' has died a fancy death at the altar of public relations. A recent chemical analysis of branded packaged drinking water (…

Prayers for a little

Rivers’ flows must be maintained to protect the services they provide, but India has no legislation  

Changing basic nature

Countries move from labs to seas to study the implications of ocean acidification

Voices from Making Water Everybody's Business Talking about water

Water is bound to dominate the agenda of the country's politicians and planners in the future Though ignored for years by the political …

Emergency

Chennai, crippled by water crisis, is also a metaphor for what Indian cities are experiencing in sourcing and managing the most precious natural …

Pollution pays

Whenever the issue of how to end pollution is raised, it hits a block: technology. Take the case of air pollution: among other things, the issue …

A few questions

Concrete invasion

Colombo’s marshes cannot avert floods the way they used to. Construction is to be blamed

Saving future

Solution to crisis: start planning now

Hard rain down the drain

What's eating up the state's water

Superbug threat is for real

But Indian government does not think it is significant

Water in the age of coronavirus

As we confront the new global enemy SARS-COV-2, the availability of water will be a crucial determinant for a successful outcome in this war  

Water woes in wet Kerala

More than 2,000 mm of rain in 2003 but crops destroyed and farmers committing suicide; crores spent on 31 irrigation projects but villages going …

Keeping cancer alive

Punjab has been in the grip of cancer for over a decade but the government has ignored the threat. Sonal Matharu reports with photographer …

Damodar - Ten years after

How has the river that flows through one of the most industrialised regions in India fared since it was first written about in 1993? Down to …

Cash clogged

Will Delhi’s ambitious sewerage plan help clean the Yamuna?

Is sewage farming safe?

Madhya Pradesh's order to destroy crops cultivated using sewage has triggered a debate over the age old practice of using wastewater for irrigation

Water pollution hot spots identified in Indian rivers

Data is misleading and underestimates pollution, allege scientists

FLUOROSIS PROBLEM

Renal emergency

Sri Lanka’s north-central region has been facing a health crisis for two decades. A large number of people in the region suffer from …

Stop the cycle of poison