New housing to reuse water

Climate change to affect water availability, alter food production: UN report

Water mediated many climate change impacts on agriculture, said the report

India and Germany sign agreement for cleaning Ganga

Germany will contribute Rs 22.5 crore to the three-year-long project

Water crisis

Toxic water

Bangladeshis may still be drinking arsenic-laced water

Planning for water

VIETNAM

Diluting standards

George W Bush does it again. This time by diluting drinking water regulations

Drink this

Bhopal tragedy victims to get water supply 20 years too late

CAG bares Orissa muck

Flays state government for inadequate, dirty water supply

Moving nimbly beyond

California for eco-friendly toilets

Coating is better than cure

A new way to filter polluting nano-particles out of the water  

Bengaluru water crisis: Is the southern metropolis heading towards Day Zero?

City founded by Kempe Gowda following same pattern as Cape Town in 2018  

This UP lake continues to stink despite over Rs 300 cr spent on cleaning it

Lack of funds to operate sewage treatment plants around the lake, locals say only boating area cleaned regularly

Water’s value cannot be pegged to its price alone: UN report

The tremendous value of water cannot be confused with the concepts of ‘price’ and ‘cost’, the report said

No basic facilities, no vote, say residents of 160 villages

Lack of facilities like electricity, water and roads makes villagers in 14 states boycott the Lok Sabha elections

THROWBACK: How China’s ‘sponge cities’ aim to re-use 70% of rainwater

Even as Indian cities become increasingly water-scarce, they get flooded — as Mumbai is getting now — by a few days' intense rainfall.…

2.1 billion people lack access to safe drinking water at home; rural-urban gap persists

The WHO and UNICEF report finds significant inequalities in basic water, sanitation and hygiene services

Wrong predictions hampered water conservation: study

Countries should rely on realistic, short-term predictions to plan water conservation efforts

For a few dollars more

Developing countries immunised 80 per cent of their children by 1990 and saved millions of lives. But 35,000 children, under five years of age, …

Water harvesting

Participants from five countries, including India, discuss ways to improve water harvesting systems

Arsenic-free

Scientists in Sweden are propagating laterite treatment for the removal of arsenic from groundwater in the Bengal Delta plains

Are some humans more equal?

A recent study suggests that poor nations will have to do with more arsenic in water. A rebuttal by the arsenic and medical group, School of …

Life in a radiation zone

A recent accident shows why workers’ safety at atomic facilities is extremely fragile