How pure are their claims?

Market for water purifiers booms, but consumers cannot be sure of quality in absence of regulations

Smart but pricey

Why automatic water meter technology is not the best idea for households

Contaminated water

Freshwater: a scarce resource

Funds denied

Water crisis: a case study of Jabalpur

Jabalpur's shrinking lakes needs sincere planning and community participation

Lost and found

Karnataka villages are reviving underground springs that were once their lifeline in summers

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 …

Stark difference in reality and records, as rural India faces major challenges in managing greywater

On paper, 92.4% villages are ODF Plus, but ground mapping shows most only have poorly maintained community soak pits

After 10 years & Rs 9,630 crore, scheme for drought-proofing Maharashtra can provide water to just 487 people for a year

The drought in Marathwada is clearly a human-made disaster, due to the mismanagement of water, say experts

DTE Coverage: Bengaluru Water Crisis 2024

Why the city that abounded in lakes and rivers went waterless

Bengaluru water crisis: Their suggestions ignored for over a decade, two hydrogeologists prescribe an immediate solution

The cumulative impact of these measures would meet the water requirement of 14 million people in Bengaluru, without any dependence on groundwater

Why is Bengaluru city facing the worst water crisis in its nearly 500-year history?

The situation might get worse as the next monsoon is still 100 days away

Up in arms over water

Radioactive pollution in water: A global concern for human health

Radioactive contamination is more prevalent in groundwater than surface water

Fight against COVID-19 is a fight for water, against inequality

Let us end our water divides. It is already late

Climate change and water: Wise old ways

We need to tweak traditional methods to tackle climate change

Fetching water from miles away increases risk of death: UK study

'Children of women who fetch water in this manner are especially disadvantaged'

How date palm seeds can remove toxins from the environment

Date seed oil could clean up polluted water and war-ravaged sites