Chennai’s water wars
The water-stressed city has been preying for a long time on aquifers in its neighbourhood, with often violent results, an analysis of its civic …
Modi’s rural sojourn: Take piped water to 4,620 households everyday
The challenge is to sustain supply; most habitations covered with drinking water have slipped back to non-covered status due to drying up of sources
Canadian student wins 2022 Stockholm Junior Water Prize
Researched how to treat and prevent harmful algae blooms after fisherman father couldn't work anymore
Water-stressed in India: Why Jal Shakti Abhiyan has only cosmetic effect in Palakkad
Palakkad ranked 219th in Jal Shakti Abhiyan despite more than 2,300 mm rain annually
A holistic water management system in urban areas for a sustainable future
An integrated approach can bring healthy coordination between all stakeholders
Unsafe WASH services: 2 in 5 deaths are from sub-Saharan Africa, finds UNICEF
African countries carry the heaviest burden of child deaths from diseases caused by inadequate WASH services
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Simply put: AES and clean water
Why full dams don't mean water security : A look at South Africa
To meet the water needs of populations and economies, planned investments must be made on time
Where are the world’s water stresses?
Around the world, significant issues are negatively impacting water security. While the situation appears dire, cooperation initiatives show some …
Poisoned Punjab: DTE reports from state’s villages wracked by water pollution
Cancer and a host of other diseases afflict people living in the Fazilka, Ferozepur, Ludhiana and Muktsar districts of the state, DTE finds
Climate change will cause disputes such as the Helmand to continue for years: Fatemeh Aman
Down To Earth speaks to Senior Fellow at the Washington-based Middle East Institute on the dispute between Kabul and Tehran over the Helmand …
Chennai water crisis: Some suggestions to avert a redux
Here are some suggestions to see to it that another incident like Chennai going dry does not happen in the future
El Nino drought leaves Zimbabwe’s Lake Kariba only 13% full: A disaster for people & wildlife
Over the long term, droughts could become more severe and the Kariba Dam could stop producing as much power
Bengaluru water crisis: Citizens raise questions on flourishing tanker business as municipal supply dries up
Water tanker operators often fail to produce adequate lab test results confirming water quality
Empowered by water: Women’s quality of life improves with household access to water supply
Women can save time to find avenues of additional income
75 years of people’s power: Lalsot in Rajasthan is helping rural areas to treat their faecal sludge
This is an example of the informal use of urban facilities to treat rural faecal sludge
Take waste out of water
We cannot manage our rivers sustainably unless we fix our waste management system
Groundwater in 10 Bihar districts contaminated by uranium: Study
Researchers yet to find the source of uranium in groundwater
Storage level: Live storage in India’s 91 reservoirs 16% of the total
As compared to last week, this week’s storage dropped by 3.66 per cent
Groundwater extraction has tilted Earth’s spin; how likely is it to fuel climate change?
Attempts to slow groundwater depletion rates in sensitive regions could alter the change in drift
Climate change blues: Many lakes to turn green, brown
Air, temperature, precipitation, lake depth and elevation determine the colour, along with factors like algae and silt
A success story: How we restored 15 rural waterbodies in UP’s Gautam Buddha Nagar
Depleted groundwater levels, deteriorated water quality, garbage and wastewater inflow, etc, were some of the issues faced by these rural waterbodies
Anang Tal: Why this traditional water tank’s restoration could give wings to Delhi’s water security
It could potentially have a beneficial effect on the local micro-economy apart from beneficial effects on the micro-climate, groundwater recharge,…