World Water Week 2023: Consensus among agencies must to provide universal access to potable water

Despite judicial pronouncements and constitutional position, states are reluctant to decentralise water management and drinking water …

Managing microplastic pollution is important for meeting sustainable development goals in India

Microplastics are a significant environmental problem and pose risks to marine life, terrestrial organisms and human health

World Water Day 2023: India can show the world how water management can be reinvented, says CSE

National workshop held in Lucknow on ‘Sustainable and Inclusive Sanitation and Water for All’ highlights the steps Uttar Pradesh is …

Spectre of Day Zero: How South Africa is revising its water strategy

Focus on water demand, innovative innovative and sustainable technological options

River revived: MGNREGA bring Palakkad women to water conservation forefront

India’s largest group of women well diggers and a unique river conservation movement

Urban flooding around the world: Where is India placed?

Climate change, urban population growth have prompted cities to adopt water-sensitive urban design, sustainable drainage systems 

Policy agreements on climate change must take water into account: UN report

Climate change will further strain water-stressed countries, create similar problems in regions not severely affected so far, the report …

Tirumala doesn’t let its water go waste

This temple town treats 83 per cent of its wastewater and uses it for a number of non-potable purposes

60% European water bodies highly polluted: study

European Environmental Agency, in its study, finds English rivers, lakes and estuaries to be among the worst

India, Pakistan and dilemma over Indus treaty abrogation

Experts are wallowing in a debate on whether India should review the treaty to teach the enemy state a lesson

Bundelkhand's bravehearts

For villages that survived recurring droughts, the economic-ecological connection makes more sense

Kenya fights drought with sand dams, other water conservation ideas

Kenyans are using traditional water conservation methods to ensure water security and grow crops 

Water shortage in the home of glaciers

Residents in the UP Himalaya, abundant in rivers and glaciers and covered by a piped water network, are experiencing a water shortage caused by a …

The red triangle

The government, the judiciary and the people have to take action together to stop environmental damage. Laws have to be enacted and cases taken …

Farmers' uprising in Rajasthan

Four farmers killed in police firing while demanding more water for irrigation; anger still brewing

Arsenic trap

Silver nanoparticles caged in aluminium can rid water of arsenic

Farmers face police wrath, 3 killed

75 villages protest government decision to give their water to Pune  

Parched no more: MGNREGA enables multi-cropping in Bundelkhand’s Himmatpura

A check dam has allowed a village in Madhya Pradesh’s Jalaun district to grow crops in two cycles

Secure from drought: How MGNREGA changed lives in Bandlapalli

The village from where the scheme was launched in India, has remained untouched by drought in a water-scarce region

Water & climate emergency: A fluid future

Climate change is disrupting the water cycle and severely affecting those who live in already water-stressed areas

Water may shift from State to Concurrent List

Panel to make the suggestion before the Cabinet in June

US passes new rule to ensure safe drinking water

Environmentalists welcome move, but farmers and industry groups are wary

Shut and dried

Why has private participation in the urban water sector failed to take off?

Rural water and sanitation needs to prioritise sustainability

Prioritising drinking water source sustainability, mix-up of nutrient cycle and reuse of treated biosolids & wastewater …

Water from waste

With water scarcity gripping many parts of the country, people are talking about rainwater harvesting, but none about wastewater, which can also …