Delhi government diverting water to hotels, alleges BJP MLA

Chief minister Sheila Dikshit admits 11 underground reservoirs lying idle because of water shortage

Phailin fallout: people face acute drinking water shortage

200 people in Ganjam get diarrhoea after drinking contaminated water

‘We'll improve mass rapid transport, tap solar power'

Harsh Vardhan, who has served as Delhi health minister and is the man behind the Pulse Polio campaign, is the chief ministerial candidate of the …

North-west India may face frequent droughts: World Bank

Organisation’s climate change report predicts decrease in crop yield by 10-30 per cent as world warms by 2°C

‘Watershed conservation can benefit 700 million people in 100 big cities’

Indian cities are struggling to fight water stress. Cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Jodhpur are going to areas located far away to source …

23 major reservoirs have deficient water levels; 18 are highly deficient

The live storage of reservoirs in Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Chhattisgarh and all southern states is far below normal

About 100 districts have suffered drought conditions for 15 years

Continuous erratic weather is making states more vulnerable

Climate change is the most impactful risk in 2016: World Economic Forum

Climate change will also aggravate water and agriculture crises, conflicts and forced migration

Can Navi Mumbai find a way out of its water shortage?

Navi Mumbai is digging wells to fight water shortage, but this may lead to another crisis instead of countering one

‘Freshwater vulnerability threatens developing nations’

A Stanford University study has analysed the situation in 119 low-income countries

The power of sewage

Maharashtra is all set to use treated sewage water in thermal power plants. Can this move be scaled up?

Dam the drought

From drought-hit Jharkhand, an inspiring story of a village that became water-secure more than 30 years ago

Delhi government releases plan to tackle water shortage

Groundwater from the Palla-Wazirabad floodplain in the city can reduce the pressure on the water supply system

From Morocco to Yemen, many squeeze water out of fog

The system of collecting water from low-hanging clouds has brought respite to residents in water-stressed regions around the world

Parched hills

Women are the worst sufferers of the water crisis in Uttarakhand. Why are the hills going dry?

Recycling is the answer to India’s water woes

Frankfurt recycles a drop of water eight times before it reaches the sea, as compared to zero in India

Melting glaciers will cause water crisis for 700 million people in Asia by 2100: study

Scientists have computed global glacier run-off changes for glaciated drainage basins and analysed the glacial impact on stream flow

Day Zero is meant to cut Cape Town's water use: what is it, and is it working?

Tough water restrictions and punitive tariffs will drive down water demand, helping to postpone Day Zero

Why UNESCO's 'natural solutions' to water problems won't work in Africa

Nature-based solutions to water can work in some places, but on the whole they face serious limitations

Nairobi's water crisis likely to continue till 2026

On December 26, 2016, the Nairobi City Water and Sewerage Company Ltd first announced “temporary” reduction of water supply, and the …

World of Cape Towns

From Cape Town to Bengaluru and Nairobi to Mexico City, hundreds of cities across the world are on the verge of going completely dry

36 per cent cities to face water crisis by 2050

An estimated 400 million people currently live in cities with perennial water shortage. The number is slated to go up to 1 billion by 2050 due to …

At least 200 cities are fast running out of water

Cities across the world have grown, thrived and expanded along rich, perennial sources of water, be it lakes, rivers, springs or even seas. So, …

Problem in paradise: Water crisis deepens in Ladakh amid surge in tourists

Dry taps and tube wells and a possibility of a prolonged water crisis is casting huge shadows on Ladakh's present and future

This idea helped rescue a city of 3.8 million from a water crisis

When water shortages loomed in Chennai, India, one man’s campaign to conserve rainwater saved the day