Orissa villages face crisis

Charting a new course

A unique drinking water project meets a long-standing demand

Killing a river

Increased human activity is destroying a river system

Poor pay for ecological neglect

Droughts seem to be here to stay. Wrong development policies, governmental indifference and relief schemes which don't work have led to …

War over water

Mismanaging water can create a crisis and lead to panic. This is exactly what led to a water riot near Jamnagar in Gujarat

Scheduled for Day Zero

The cities with population above 1 million in 2016, which would face water scarcity in 2050

Simply Put: Abode of the clouds

Simply Put: Ronaldo's leap

Water level in major southern and western reservoirs at 50% of storage capacity

Central Water Commission officials say there is no cause for alarm

Water scarcity is inevitable, up to 270 million people at risk: IPCC report

The report will be debated in Geneva this week

India Elects: Will water issues impact results?

Within a week, we will know whether the "No Water No Votes" campaign influenced results

Water weary

Women in Gujarat spend inordinate time procuring their daily requirement of water

Africa’s aquifers hold more than 20 times the water stored in the continent’s lakes, but they aren’t the answer to water scarcity

Due to changing climate & growing population, many of Africa’s surface water resources like dams & rivers are overused & …

Jodhpur blues: How the Indira Gandhi Canal has robbed the desert citadel of its character

There is ample water in what was once a water scarce place; traditional water bodies, architecture, social habits have consequently gone for a toss

Early sowing can increase cotton yield: study

It was found, through simulations, that early sowing (mid May) always yielded better cotton production as compared to late sowing (June)

Water scarcity in Shimla: A series of unfortunate events

Rain deficit, scanty snowfall, leaking pipelines are few of the many reasons that landed the tourist town into the water crisis

'India has highest number of people without access to safe water'

A new report states that poor management of water resources is the biggest problem holding India back from reaching all of its population …

Meghalaya springs back

As the hill state enters dry months, a government initiative to revive 70,000 dying springs instils hope in its water-scarce villages

Water-stressed in India: Experts unfazed over Bengaluru’s dismal JSA ranking

Bengaluru’s water woes and rapidly-depleting groundwater reserves led to it getting an abysmal 200th rank

Pitching in for a pond

The government and people of Madhya Pradesh have joined hands in their fight against drought through various jan sahyog programmes

Rain deficit can push Karnataka to worst water crisis in 40 years

Bengaluru and Mysuru are likely to face shortage of drinking water

SAO PAULO

Nearly a billion children globally exposed to extremely high water stress: UNICEF report

Released days ahead of COP28, the report sees global event as a critical opportunity to finally put children on the climate change agenda

Every person may have to live on less water as per capita reservoir capacity decreases: UN

While the world population might increase to nine billion by 2040, the projected reservoir volume is stabilising around 7,000 billion cubic metre

Meghalaya: How the ‘abode of clouds’ ran out of water

Many people have been on the receiving end of prolonged water scarcity, with Meghalaya grappling with one of the worst water crises in recent times