Swachh Bharat Mission: An outstanding achievement, but challenges remain

Including people who still lack toilets, overcoming partial toilet use and retrofitting sustainably unsafe toilets are some of the massive tasks ahead

Why we cannot ignore the poor

One thing is clear—the solutions must work for the poor, for them to work for the rich

Water, Marathwada women’s woe: No brides for farmers as families look for city matches

Access to water, better infra drive marriage prospects as women yearn for more 'comfortable' lives

The ‘forgotten’ water ecosystems of Mumbai

City’s water systems need urgent attention to build resilience against climate-related uncertainties 

How civil engineers lead lake rejuvenation in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka

Pollution, solid waste dumping, flooding and encroachment issue plagued Coimbatore’s Kurichi Lake and Bengaluru’s Mylsandra …

To recharge groundwater, give due attention to soil: conservationist Vijay Borade

India, according to him, witnesses 15 tonnes of soil loss for each hectare every year due to erosion

Water crisis set to hit energy production, says study

In future, when human society will need more energy for day to day activities, water crisis is going to hit energy production, claims a study …

Liquid pressure

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Dying for a river

In Raigarh district of Madhya Pradesh, tribals are fighting to save their only source of water from an industrial house. A woman has already died …

A quiet Revolution

Six years ago, the Andhra Pradesh government decided to manage forests jointly with the people. This effort is breaking new ground in Naxalite-…

Riots for water

Faced with a severe drought, the Gujarat government decided to reserve water from a dam for the town of Jamnagar. Rural folk of Saurashtra …

Drought hit

Jharkhand’s water table falls three metres in one year

The way to clean sewage

Sewage treatment by filtration through a semi-permeable membrane has proved successful

Spreading message

Two sides of the same coin: Shrinking water bodies and urban floods

Water bodies have become even more critical in current times when cities are facing the challenge of rapid, unplanned urbanisation

Arsenic control

West Bengal, severely affected by arsenic in its groundwater, takes slow but steady steps to deal with it

Gujarat to set up water regulatory commission

When markets do work

Why better policies are needed for sewage water use in thermal power plants

Thermal power plants within 50 km of STPs are required to use treated sewage; but there has not been any positive move on ground

Telengana's water grouse

Regional disparity in allocation of Krishna water in Andhra Pradesh is both because of politics and topography, finds Bharat Lal Seth

Letters

Rivers of discord

Poor performance

Of arsenic removal plants in West Bengal

Against the flow

Experiments in budgeting water

State is trying to get farmers to budget water