See how Indian states fared on the water index

The NITI Aayog, in its latest assessment, analyses the water index scores of states between 2015-16 and 2016-17

Bengaluru should celebrate World Water Day every day

Contrary to popular imagination, water resources have been misused rampantly in the urban centres, not rural areas

Reflection in a pond

As urban residents switch to municipal water, the labour class struggles with disappearing ponds, their main water source. Sorit Gupto …

Checking the damage

MANTHAN SE PRAVAH·VHS (PAL)·colour·30 mins· Gujarati (with English commentary)·Directed by Raju Barot·…

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 …

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 '…

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

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