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 (…
Conspicuously missing
Killing a river
Increased human activity is destroying a river system
Prepaid cards for unlimited electricity
Rajasthan tackles drought through pokhars
South Asia
Global South water-sensitive cities: Framing the discourse
Simply copy-pasting the concepts from the Global North will lead to sub-optimal solutions
Water conservation fee: improving or increasing the crisis?
We need to find newer ways to reduce and regulate over-extraction and usage, than promoting further extraction and overuse of this already …
Turn around India’s water story
Give local communities greater control over water structures for a secure future
Politics of irrigation
Book>> Controlling The Water: Matching Technology And Institutions In Irrigation Management In India And Nepal • Edited By Dick Roth …
Private desires, public fears
Asian Development Bank’s new plan insists on the private sector answer to water woes
Snuffing out lives with pollution
Premature deaths and disease caused by a polluted environment is the most pressing problem in the world today, says a WHO report prepared for the …
Who owns the river?
The Rajasthan government believes that it has a right over every raindrop and makes a move to demolish a water harvesting structure set up by …
The selenium scourge in Punjab
Two districts of Punjab -- Hoshiarpur and Nawanshahar -- have been hit by a rash of ailments. The inhabitants are experiencing hair loss, joint …
Rise and fall of water managers
Book>> Waternama, A Collection of Traditional Practices for Water Conservation and Management in Karnataka Sandhya Iyengar publisher …
India's groundwater is flooded with fluoride
Fluoride is an acute toxin, with a rating slightly higher than lead. It is, in fact, one of the most bone-seeking elements known to human beings. …
Science & Technology - Briefs
New Age Approach
We need to go back to the drawing board to reinvent a green toilet. If necessary, to go back to our past and find technological innovations that …
Drowning In Human Excreta
Sanitation for urban India means building flush toilets and linking them to sewer systems. But the price of chasing this dream is leading to an …
In deep water
Rivers Krishna and Mahanadi are in crisis. In the race to industrialise, states have drawn plans to exploit their last drop. For four decades, …
ADB’s flawed water programme promotes scarcity
As the annual meet of the board of governors of Asian Development Bank gets under way near Delhi, a critique of the bank’s approach to …