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 …

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

The power of sewage

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

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

Swachh Bharat Mission: Let the toilet revolution live long

The start has been promising and exciting. Now the challenge is to sustain the ODF tag and ensure that the pollution is checked

Can India manage its precious waters

Even as water levels in river basins across the country diminish, the gap between water demand and supply is gradually widening. India faces a …

Water, Africa’s Gold: How poverty exacerbated Nigeria’s acute water crisis

Lack of clear government funding led to avoidable deaths from water-borne diseases like cholera

As told to Parliament: Over 1,000 groundwater units in India over-exploited

All that was discussed in the House through the day

Delhi government diverting water to hotels, alleges BJP MLA

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

UN sustainable development goals: Countries need bottom-up approach, urgent actions to meet targets

‘It is high time countries took urgent, extraordinary actions towards a just & inclusive recovery’

Investors accuse 37 Indian companies of hiding environmental impact information

A group of 105 investors wrote to 1,051 corporate giants across 49 countries on the matter 

Phailin fallout: people face acute drinking water shortage

200 people in Ganjam get diarrhoea after drinking contaminated water

‘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 …

‘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 …

As told to Parliament (December 13, 2022): 130 sq km of forest land set to be diverted in Great Nicobar Island

Mitigation measures have been proposed for the ‘sustainable development’ projects

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