THROWBACK: How China’s ‘sponge cities’ aim to re-use 70% of rainwater

Even as Indian cities become increasingly water-scarce, they get flooded — as Mumbai is getting now — by a few days' intense rainfall.…

No basic facilities, no vote, say residents of 160 villages

Lack of facilities like electricity, water and roads makes villagers in 14 states boycott the Lok Sabha elections

2.1 billion people lack access to safe drinking water at home; rural-urban gap persists

The WHO and UNICEF report finds significant inequalities in basic water, sanitation and hygiene services

Wrong predictions hampered water conservation: study

Countries should rely on realistic, short-term predictions to plan water conservation efforts

For a few dollars more

Developing countries immunised 80 per cent of their children by 1990 and saved millions of lives. But 35,000 children, under five years of age, …

Water harvesting

Participants from five countries, including India, discuss ways to improve water harvesting systems

Arsenic-free

Scientists in Sweden are propagating laterite treatment for the removal of arsenic from groundwater in the Bengal Delta plains

Are some humans more equal?

A recent study suggests that poor nations will have to do with more arsenic in water. A rebuttal by the arsenic and medical group, School of …

Life in a radiation zone

A recent accident shows why workers’ safety at atomic facilities is extremely fragile

Ghelhar Choti (Jhabua) Participatory success

Mandlikpur (Rajkot) Life with Recharged Wells

Gandhigram (Kachchh) Taking Loans to harvest Water

Raj-samadhiyala (Rajkot) leading by example

THUNTHI KANKASIYA (DAHOD) a turnaround

Holding their own

Villages which have harvested rainwater are faring quite well in the face of drought

Chlorine through the skin causes cancer

Now arsenic in Karnataka

The need of the hour

Experts all over agree that rainwater harvesting is the best way to improve the lot of villages

Confluence of thoughts

Water warriors from across India shared their experiences in harvesting water at a conference, which aimed to 'Make Water Everybody's Business'

Talking about fluorosis

Participants failed to come up with workable solutions at a recent international conference on fluorosis

The negotiators

Of India's 18 major rivers, 17 are inter-state. In all cases, the water is intensely fought over. In all cases, there seems no resolution. In …

Planning Commission report on groundwater downplays industrial exploitation

Rs 1,86,000 cr illusion

Andhra Pradesh’s Jalayagnam irrigation scheme unviable, contract-driven, says CAG draft report

World Water Week discusses green options to manage water resources

Municipality in South Africa awarded for water and sanitation work

Arsenic just got dirtier

Exposure to arsenic also increases risk of hypertension