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