Act of omission

The government's latest commission on water may end up churning out myopic, big-dam-centred policies

In the nick of time

The rediscovery of a traditional system of water management that involves the construction of embankments to harness rainwater, has revived …

Lessons of a drought

Water will become the most prized and precious commodity in the coming years. Internecine conflicts over the resource are already the order of …

Flashpoints

For several years, governments of coastal states have been trying to persuade the Centre to relax the crz rules. Here is how some major '…

Breakdown

Government is sponsoring unsustainability at the cost of traditons which have sustained India

Murli's musings

The HRD minister wants to teach rainwater harvesting. But is he willing to learn it from communities?

Website review: www.rainwaterharvesting.org

Summer is here and with it water wars at neighbourhood taps and tanker stops. To find a way out of scarcity, visit the Centre for Science and …

All bottled up

An exclusive survey shows Chennai's reliance on private tankers and bottled water is increasing

Deeper Debt for Water

In his desperate search for groundwater, Bappu Reddy is not willing to give up on borewell digging and wants the government to help him. Read …

Water ATM

Sarvajal makes clean drinking water accessible to people

Delhi to get Waterbodies Authority

Over half the 900 wetlands have been encroached upon

Single drops of water make the mighty economy

Radioactive waste in Congolese river

Drought of equity

A large part of Maharashtra has been declared drought-hit. But distribution of water is quite incongruous. While the few who are politically and …

As Bihar’s politicians forget water bodies in poll din, citizens issue declaration to remind them of the precious resource

The Jal-Jan Declaration highlights floods and droughts in the state and urges politicans to come out with solutions  

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (December 11, 2023)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal  

Water, Africa’s Gold: One crisis too many

Africa is caught in a vortex of poverty, water and disease

How the world's land and water surface have changed in 30 years

India ranks sixth in conversion of land surface to water 

Now a papaya-clay filter

The hybrid clay filter could be the cost-effective answer to water purification

Smoke on the water

Saurashtra Coast

Pushed out by salt

Beware flurosis is zeroing in on you

Water harvesting and conservation methods can turn the tide against the disease

Managing a crisis

People of the Arwari basin in Alwar, take proactive measures to battle drought

Water war

A dispuet is brewing between TN and Kerala over a controversial dam

Deadly leakage