Water, holy and dirty

Wealth from water

River on canvas

Climate opportunity: How did Rajasthan harvest rainwater after the early monsoon of 2023?

The rains of May and June 2023 broke records of the last 100 years for western Rajasthan districts. The villagers turned this havoc of rain into …

Unsafe WASH behind 395,000 deaths of children under 5 in 2019: WHO report

WHO urges governments to take action with support from UN agencies, multilateral partners, the private sector and civil society organisations to …

South Africa’s drinking water quality has dropped because of defective infrastructure and neglect – new report

The current state of affairs was predicted two decades ago by numerous researchers and experts

Dry urine has great benefits for farmers: Scientist explains reuse techniques

Prithvi Simha from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences talks about the benefits of drying urine

Zeroing in on discharge

Innovative ZLD technologies can power wastewater recovery through solar thermal application

Cheering for toilets, with caution

The country did successfully build 100 million toilets, but this success must be made sustainable

Depleting groundwater costs farmers heavily

The groundwater level in India has declined by 61 per cent between 2007 and 2017, according to Fifth Minor Irrigation Census

Saraswati: River, myth or mirage

While experts say there was a river system in place where the Haryana government is trying to revive the water body, there are doubts whether it …

India revives its largest test for uranium contamination in groundwater

India's most comprehensive study ever is important in the face of the Centre denying health repercussions due to uranium contamination of …

Good News: This man is reviving Hauz Khas lake using artificial wetlands

Tarun Sebastian Nanda, a civil and environmental engineer has taken up a project of cleaning the Hauz Khas lake in Delhi by using artificially …

Super tiny particles derived from table sugar can detect lead in water

Indian researchers derived a techinue to show that nanoparticles from table sugar can be used as sensor for detection of lead in water

Why does Kosi river cause devastating floods so often? Answer lies in massive siltation: study

742 million tonnes of silt has been deposited in the Chhatra to Birpur stretch of Kosi River in the last 54 years, finds a new study

'Change perception about wastewater'

Blanca Jimnez-Cisneros, director of the division of water sciences and secretary of International Hydrological Programme, Unesco, talks to …

Paying for environmental abuse

Warer-cess assessment and collection have proved to be inadequate in getting local bodies and highly industrialised states like Maharashtra to …

Stop the cycle of poison

Gold’s toxic legacy

Mines release arsenic, contaminate water and soil

Dam at fault

Maharashtra builds dam in quake zone without permission. High Court refuses stay

Instant quality check of rivers

Electronic sensors to monitor pollutants in Yamuna, Ganga

Water-stressed in India: Lessons from Telangana’s Sangareddy district

From Kakatiya mission in 2016 to Jal Shakti Abhiyan in 2019 — how de-silting of Pedda Cheruvu tank helped fix groundwater levels &…

An oasis put to test

Backed by three decades of water conservation measures, semi-arid Saurashtra is driving Gujarat’s agricultural growth. Will it be able to …

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 (…

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