Quenching parched throats

Solutions do not come easy. However, there are ways to avoid a bigger crisis: give water back to the people and rediscover the water harvesting …

No water just woes

Despite numerous schemes, financial allocations and "election-time" promises, drinking water is still a scarce commodity. Public participation …

Faucets of the problem

Once known as the land of magic, India amazed the west with the trick of the bottomless pitcher. The magician would fill countless containers …

A crisis that will redefine civilization

The water bearer

ANNA HAZARE bids a heavy-hearted farewell to the late Vilasrao Salunkhe, better known as 'pani baba'. Salunkhe's revolutionary concept of '…

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

Simply Put: Mars water & Earth water

Simply Put: The Thirsty Crow’s story retold

जग बीती: प्यासा कौआ और अशुद्ध पानी

संकट में जीवनधारा

हिमालयी धाराओं का सूखना पर्वतीय और मैदानी इलाकों के करोड़ों लोगों के लिए खतरे की घंटी है

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 …

Streams of trouble

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

On the verge of water crisis

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

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.…

Scattered dots

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

WWF identifies 100 cities, including 30 in India, facing ‘severe water risk’ by 2050

These cities would have to build ‘resilience’ if they were to manage such scarcity, the nonprofit said

घरों में भू-जल निकासी पर लग सकती है रोक

पानी आपूर्ति करने वाले स्थानीय निकायों की यह जिम्मेदारी होगी कि वह जिन घरों में पाइप के जरिए जलापूर्ति कर रहे हैं उनमें मशीनों ...

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All the water they need

Rainwater harvesting is catching on in a big way in Kochi

Virtual realities

Bangalore is in the throes of a water privatisation debate. But the most critical flaws in a new plan for its suburbs have got missed out. s …