Simply put: Giant Viruses found in water samples from Mumbai

The Water Will Come

What if Atlantis wasn't a myth, but an early precursor to a new age of great flooding?

What would happen now?

A normal monsoon will be useful only if we learn lessons from the current drought

Consume with care to avoid water scarcity

Injustice gets nastier

Water crisis in South Africa: Damning report finds 46% contamination, 67% of treatment works near to breaking down

Monitoring and compliance were severely deficient, report shows

Quest for water: Tribals in Gujarat village use traditional methods to end shortage

Some househoulds have started reusing grey water and maintaining kitchen gardens

Bihar starts geo-mapping exercise to trace, identify thousands of water bodies

Bihar Remote Sensing Application Centre is tasked with handling the exercise

A tool to settle scores

Contests over water are set to increase, intensify 

Is water use sustainable?

No. In the last 100 years, global population tripled, but freshwater use increased sixfold

Catching rain

Mizos turn to rainwater harvesting as alternative option

Water-stressed in India: Officials in Karnataka’s Chitradurga clueless about JSA

The district scored zero in some Jal Shakti Abhiyan indicators

Cauvery tribunal award notified

Disgruntled Karnataka chief minister writes to prime minister

Charting a new course

A unique drinking water project meets a long-standing demand

Almora's dying waterbodies

Almora sees springs vanish, river die

Acute shortage

Common sense delivers

Murli Mohan Sharma opted out.

19% of world’s people without access to clean water live in India

Yet state governments are not serious enough

Lemony clean water

Lime juice, sunlight can purify water in 30 minutes

Ultraviolet disinfectant

Towards a common goal

Unlocking potential of groundwater can provide water security, boost economy: UN

India is the largest groundwater user globally, finds UN report

Managing the mega irrigation beast

With better management, mega irrigation schemes can fulfil their large purpose

Subverting a basic human right

A draft water policy proposes to make water an economic good

A fluid right

Campaign to make water and sanitation a right gathers momentum