Heavy metals polluting Kolkata's groundwater

Creation of Greater Bangalore will strain the city's resources

JNNURM: a Nehruvian farce

Oil in the well

Power trickles down

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

Review finds ADB's policy doesn't hold water

Since 1998, adb has invested us $960 million in urban projects in India.

Common sense delivers

Murli Mohan Sharma opted out.

World Water Week 2023: Demand and pollution of the precious resource are increasing, which is not a good sign

While India, on the whole, is water secure, the situation is grim in some states and Union Territories. In business-as-usual scenario, more …

Live storage increases marginally in India’s major reservoirs, as monsoon picks up

The eastern region has the lowest storage, followed by the northern, western and  central regions as of July 7

IIT Kharagpur to steer Saraswati 2.0 for reuse of treated water

The institution will steer three pilot projects to treat wastewater, make it re-usable and also explore its usage in compost or value …

Sanitary insights

January 2, 2017, is the 15th death anniversary of Anil Agarwal, founder of the Centre for Science and Environment and Down To Earth. This year, …

Asian, African cities rank low on water sustainability

Poor quality of water and inability to withstand natural disasters are affecting sustainability index of cities

A slum's daily struggle with water

A 17-year-old boy, a resident of Jagdamba Camp in South Delhi's Malviya Nagar captures how his community deals with the lack or excess of water. …

Perpetual Thirst

It has been 45 years since the first national water supply programme. This and many thousand crore of rupees later, more than half of India's …

Letters

Urban renewal: more talk, less infrastructure

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 …

Getting a city into shape

Access to water is a crisis for the powerless

Fair access to water is an issue for millions of people in India. Who controls access and how this is governed needs fixing  

Bengaluru water crisis: BWSSB announces 20% water cut to bulk consumers; identifies areas bearing the brunt 

Companies, hospitals, crematoria & graveyards, schools, railways and airport to take a hit  

Now, Hyderabad joins list of places suffering from severe water crisis

There is a gap of 47 per cent between demand and supply of water in the city

Drying up of an empire

Water crisis behind the decline of Angkor Wat

Agartala wants malls, multiplexes

Saving future

Solution to crisis: start planning now

Hard rain down the drain

What's eating up the state's water