42 rivers have extremely high concentration of neurotoxic heavy metals

Ganga was found to be polluted with five heavy metals, namely chromium, copper, nickel, lead and iron

Union Cabinet approves setting up of Tribunal for Mahanadi water-sharing dispute

The Centre’s move comes a month after the Supreme Court ordered the Constitution to settle the decades-long dispute

In crisis

The desert city of Jodhpur in Rajasthan is an excellent example of how Thoughtless processes of modernisation and urbanisation have destroyed an …

The debate on interlinking rivers in India

India plans to develop its water resources by interlinking its Himalayan rivers with those in the peninsular region through 30 interlinking canal …

Are Indian megacities forgetting their rainwater endowment?

Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi mandated rainwater harvesting but are struggling for over a decade to implement the impactful structures on ground

Marathwada's dry story

How poor policies pushed the region into one of its worst droughts ever

Managing freshwater resources

Industrial vibes

Will solutions of the North work in the South?

Water in foreign policy

The global community is slowly waking up to the growing paucity of water

A parched waterworld

Not just humans, nature also needs water

TAIWAN

Pricing the precious

A pricing mechanism and harvesting techniques will solve water crisis

Large dams not an answer to water shortage

There is a need to find better solutions

Bone of contention Nepal's water bill

Bangalore to get treated wastewater

500,000 billion litres

Roadside rainwater harvesting potential in India remains untapped

High fluoride content in Khordha, Nayagarh groundwater

Children are at higher risk from contaminated drinking water

When 'calamity' strikes

Water harvesting is the new catchword for the government struggling against drought. And the media is going out of its way to spread the word. In …

Water revolution

It is not easy to initiate a movement for water conservation in the face of drought. But the Madhya Pradesh government pushed forward in all the …

In Short

Make India drought-proof

A non-priority?

Environment managers do not count

Stranglehold

Pesticides: what's the way out?

Flaying the environment

Tanneries: ill-managed, technologically challenged

Black liquor

Agro-based pulp and paper: technological inability?