Cost: Three rupees

..per villager per year. And the benefit of an ultraviolet disinfectant is potable water for a community of 1,000 people for 15 years

Is water use sustainable?

No. In the last 100 years, global population tripled, but freshwater use increased sixfold

Emergency

Chennai, crippled by water crisis, is also a metaphor for what Indian cities are experiencing in sourcing and managing the most precious natural …

More shocks

The Gujarat government turns a blind eye to the quake-ravaged water storage facilities. More bad news for a state facing its second drought

Catching rain

Mizos turn to rainwater harvesting as alternative option

Cauvery tribunal award notified

Disgruntled Karnataka chief minister writes to prime minister

Charting a new course

A unique drinking water project meets a long-standing demand

Almora's dying waterbodies

Almora sees springs vanish, river die

Acute shortage

Book review Towards water wisdom Limits, justice, harmony

BOOK>>Towards Water Wisdom Limits, Justice, Harmony by Ramaswamy Iyer Sage Publications, New Delhi 2007

A solar water purifier, with a difference

Scientists at the Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute at Phaltan in Maharashtra developed a solar water purifier, that does not require …

'The tragedy of irrigation in India is that we have created capacity but have not utilised it'

Will the integration of Central Water Commission and Central Ground Water Board lead to better water management? Mihir Shah explains

Tax rebate to promote rainwater harvesting

Various municipal corporations in the country are offering concession of property tax in exchange of a rainwater harvesting system. Is the scheme …

A slum's daily struggle with water

A 17-year-old boy, a resident of Jagdamba Camp in South Delhi's Malviya Nagar captures how his community deals with the lack or excess of water. …

Perpetual Thirst

It has been 45 years since the first national water supply programme. This and many thousand crore of rupees later, more than half of India's …

Common sense delivers

Murli Mohan Sharma opted out.

Water: The clock is ticking

Day Zero has been postponed to next year for Capetonians. When is your turn? Are you ready?

Springs are flowing once again in these Uttarakhand villages, thanks to 'water champions'

After scientific interventions helped revive the dying springs in more than 300 villages, communities took the ownership of maintaining these …

19% of world’s people without access to clean water live in India

Yet state governments are not serious enough

A worsening water crisis in North Africa and the Middle East

Middle East and North African region is home to 7 per cent of the world's population but has access to only 1.5 per cent of its renewable …

Wiped out

Modernisation is pushing many traditional occupations dependent on water to the brink of extinction

Yemen: Water and energy in times of war

Water production has been seriously hampered as fewer public wells are operational due to war damage, lack of maintenance and unavailability of fuel

Lemony clean water

Lime juice, sunlight can purify water in 30 minutes

Ultraviolet disinfectant

Towards a common goal