Lake Victoria: CSE lays out strategy to manage water quality in Tanzania

Startegy for Mwanza city suggests greater focus on Nyashishi river needed, connecting households to sewer lines and waste segregation

Jobs round the year: How MGNREGA made Balangir job-secure

The success of MGNREGA projects has made Odisha offer 300 days of guaranteed work a year to curb distress migration in this district

Spring in a box

A village in Maharashtra solves its water crisis by building underground boxes to tap spring water

Water woes acquire gargantuan proportions

The country’s national leaders have shown a remarkably weak appetite on policy and legislation

Fundamental judgement

Clean drinking water is a fundamental right, states the Supreme Court and wants government to set up environmental courts

Ground reality

As the water crisis surfaces yet again, illegal borewells spring up in and around Delhi. Binayak Das and Suresh Babu on a plummeting water table …

Villagers march to revive the Meghal river

Even as citypeople all over India were finalising their Christmas party-hopping plans, a celebration of a very different kind galvanised Junagadh …

Poisoned Punjab: Mystery illnesses haunt this Fazilka hamlet dependent on canal water

Down To Earth ground report finds around 30 cancer deaths in 12 years in Burj Mohar in Fazilka district 

Standing the test of drought

After the 1999 monsoon failed in several areas of Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh, there is a serious drought. Summer is a good four months away, and …

Renal emergency

Sri Lanka’s north-central region has been facing a health crisis for two decades. A large number of people in the region suffer from …

Industries rampantly flout new groundwater rules 10 months after notification

Successful rollout will require massive capacity building, say experts  

Recharge plan: Tupewadi’s tryst with MGNREGA a boost to water table

Having depleted groundwater, Jalna farmers replenish the resource through bunds

Beris to the rescue

Revival of rainwater harvesting structures quenches the thirst of a Thar village

The gold diggers

A green touch

Dying springs

Seeds of purity

Local plant seeds provide a clue to treating impure water

River conservation

Time to pay-up

Industries will have to pay a higher tax on water

Our country, our mess

How's India doing in providing basic social services?

WATER CRISIS

Simple, bare necessities

To what extent are basic household amenities available to India's people?

Rights issue resurfaces

Another panchayat's stand endorsed by Kerala HC

Demand for fresh water to be 40% higher than supply by end of decade: UNGA president 

Csaba Kőrösi said main task of upcoming UN Water Conference will be to find game changers for water management

Fresh water is turning saltier, flags study

Freshwater salinization can poison drinking water and increase chloride concentrations in it over time, the study underlines