Researchers design solar-powered water desalination device for rural India

Electrodialysis reversal system removes salinity of groundwater in villages by consuming 70 per cent less energy than RO

Pumping iron

The training of women in the maintenance of hand-pumps has not only flooded them with confidence, it has rescued a government water supply …

Is a 24-hour water supply possible?

An answer to this question was attempted at a workshop organised in Hyderabad, from September 23-24, 2003, by the Administrative Staff College of …

After Cape Town, another place in South Africa is fighting off a ‘Day Zero’ water crisis

Dam levels at 16%; fixing leaks and reducing consumption among measures taken

Simply Put: In the water

DTE Coverage: World Water Week 2023

Down To Earth highlights various facets of the issue of water management in India

Simply Put: Mars water & Earth water

Simply Put: The Thirsty Crow’s story retold

On the verge of water crisis

Ten metropolitan cities of the world that are on the verge of an imminent water crisis

Rethink usefulness of trading water: UN human rights expert

States must ensure appropriate legal measures to prevent price speculation of water 

MGNREGA: 15 years of moving from crisis to solutions

How the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme been used by India 

World Water Day: How Indian villages used 15 years of MGNREGA

A look at how the world’s largest public wage programme has helped fight water shortage and revive India’s agrarian economy

This green oasis is a drought-proof village in Rajasthan

The miracle was brought about mostly through the revival of traditional water-harvesting structures 

Government launches new ‘Jal Shakti’ ministry

The new ministry has been formed by merging the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation and Ministry of Drinking …

India's water footprint 200 per cent higher than China

India will need to feed a projected 394 million more people by 2050. What are the agricutural challenges? 

Stepwells in Gujarat are a lesson on community-based water harvesting

Gujarat can find solace in its traditional water monuments. For that, it first needs to restore them

Water budget: Accounting of water at the time of climate change

When most of Maharashtra was facing drought in 2016, this tiny village called Kumbharwadi in Ahmednagar district was watersufficient. This was …

Last few drops

Taps will run dry in the South African metropolis of Cape Town in two months. Hundreds of cities across the world are nearing a similar breakdown.…

Streams of trouble

As demand for water becomes unmanageable, conflicts are brewing between nations that share transboundary freshwater reserves. Such conflicts are …

Scattered dots

Sarnath Banerjee takes on too many nuances of a water crisis that are difficult to integrate in his graphic novel

Wars over water

Two-thirds of the world’s water-related conflicts since 1990 were witnessed in the past decade 

Bengaluru water crisis: How use of RO purifiers is reversing efforts to save water

Amid the institutional & personal attempts to save water in Bengaluru, an obvious culprit is being ignored

Successful project made women water entrepreneurs instead of water carriers

Example of project cited in report released at World Water Week in Stockholm recently

Rescuing the stepwells of Jodhpur

Desalination made easy

Graphite and copper can make brackish water potable