Pluck the dirt out

Simple model

To improve management of water resources in India

Digging shallow

COVID-19 and SDG 6 goals: All that we need to learn and do

We need political will and commitment during COVID-19 times. Our world is packed with knowledge and we can achieve SDG6 goals if we remain engaged&…

Panchayats to spend Rs 1.42 lakh crore on water and sanitation

Spend 60% grant on water and sanitation: 15th Finance Commission recommends to rural local bodies  

India performs poorly in sanitation and water accessibility

A global index finds no significant correlation between GDP and performance as China and India, the two fastest growing Asian economies, are …

‘No need to decommission Mullaperiyar dam’

As the impasse over Mullaperiyar dam continues, T Hanumantha Rao, former chief engineer of Andhra Pradesh's irrigation department tells Bharat …

‘Watershed conservation can benefit 700 million people in 100 big cities’

Indian cities are struggling to fight water stress. Cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Jodhpur are going to areas located far away to source …

Bengaluru only needs urgent institutional makeover of its water utilities

The Silicon Valley of India is facing a groundwater crisis

India’s old dams: Gandhi Sagar in MP needs immediate repair, says CAG report

A breach in the dam could affect millions of lives and damage property

As told to Parliament (December 6, 2021): Cases of environment-related offences almost doubled in 2020  

All that was discussed in the House through the day

75 years of people’s power: How Yerlapady in Karnataka sourced funds to manage grey water

The village made efficient use of MGNREGS funds to construct soak pits

Cauvery turmoil: Karnataka farmers seek alternatives to water-intensive crops

Paddy farmers in Mandya district shifting to horticultural and plantation crops

India responsible for largest drop in open defecation since 2015: WASH report

The report also noted some progress in achieving Sustainable Development Goal 6

Community enterprise unlimited

Safe drinking water

Banking on water

The Union government earmarks Rs 500 crore for augmentation of traditional water sources

Green university

Anna University is turning green with serious efforts to curtail pollution within the campus

Community initiative

NORTH KOREA

A lesson not learnt

Unproductive

Two meetings on revving up India's farm sector

In Court

'People's plan solved water crisis in Dhule'

Monopoly on Mahanadi

Water on a deficit budget