River of Life, River of Death: The Ganges and India's Future

India is killing the Ganges, and the Ganges in turn is killing India.

A clear picture of Maharashtra's water distribution model

2015: The year that was

Taking stock of developments of the year   

‘Strong local government needed to achieve universal access to water and sanitation’

Leading organisations come together to ensure global water and sanitation needs by 2030

Banking on self-help

Chhotaudepur has devised a successful collective water management system: water banks

In court

Taste for waste

Sewage, industrial effluent is the future

Water, holy and dirty

Wealth from water

Climate opportunity: How did Rajasthan harvest rainwater after the early monsoon of 2023?

The rains of May and June 2023 broke records of the last 100 years for western Rajasthan districts. The villagers turned this havoc of rain into …

Unsafe WASH behind 395,000 deaths of children under 5 in 2019: WHO report

WHO urges governments to take action with support from UN agencies, multilateral partners, the private sector and civil society organisations to …

South Africa’s drinking water quality has dropped because of defective infrastructure and neglect – new report

The current state of affairs was predicted two decades ago by numerous researchers and experts

Dry urine has great benefits for farmers: Scientist explains reuse techniques

Prithvi Simha from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences talks about the benefits of drying urine

Zeroing in on discharge

Innovative ZLD technologies can power wastewater recovery through solar thermal application

Cheering for toilets, with caution

The country did successfully build 100 million toilets, but this success must be made sustainable

Depleting groundwater costs farmers heavily

The groundwater level in India has declined by 61 per cent between 2007 and 2017, according to Fifth Minor Irrigation Census

Saraswati: River, myth or mirage

While experts say there was a river system in place where the Haryana government is trying to revive the water body, there are doubts whether it …

India revives its largest test for uranium contamination in groundwater

India's most comprehensive study ever is important in the face of the Centre denying health repercussions due to uranium contamination of …

Good News: This man is reviving Hauz Khas lake using artificial wetlands

Tarun Sebastian Nanda, a civil and environmental engineer has taken up a project of cleaning the Hauz Khas lake in Delhi by using artificially …

Super tiny particles derived from table sugar can detect lead in water

Indian researchers derived a techinue to show that nanoparticles from table sugar can be used as sensor for detection of lead in water

Why does Kosi river cause devastating floods so often? Answer lies in massive siltation: study

742 million tonnes of silt has been deposited in the Chhatra to Birpur stretch of Kosi River in the last 54 years, finds a new study

'Change perception about wastewater'

Blanca Jimnez-Cisneros, director of the division of water sciences and secretary of International Hydrological Programme, Unesco, talks to …

Paying for environmental abuse

Warer-cess assessment and collection have proved to be inadequate in getting local bodies and highly industrialised states like Maharashtra to …

Bengaluru water crisis: Two elephants succumb to thirst after roaming over 50 km in Ramanagara near Karnataka capital

Bengaluru recorded its highest temperature in five years on March 29, prompting IMD to issue a heatwave alert

Budget 2020-21: Experts hope water security will be in focus again

Fund allocations must be clearly defined, they say