No latrines and drinking water for more than half of India, finds survey

The future's Orange

Australian town says no to drinking recycled sewage

To sell a resource

Water. A resource whose scarcity and inefficient allocation gives enough cause for concern. A concern which could find a solution in the concept …

It's political

Water scarcity in a Faridkot village

Injustice gets nastier

Protecting water and land from grabbers. For a new water ethic

In a world running out of accessible water, the question of control looms large. Is water a human right, a public trust and common heritage or a …

Emergency

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

Catching rain

Mizos turn to rainwater harvesting as alternative option

Charting a new course

A unique drinking water project meets a long-standing demand

Almora's dying waterbodies

Almora sees springs vanish, river die

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.

A fluid right

Campaign to make water and sanitation a right gathers momentum

Rainwater harvesting aids tsunami-hit Sri Lankan villages

Urban water management in Singapore

Singapore may just have discovered a remedy to reduce water wastage at the household level. The city is known for its long-standing efforts at …

The flow's not smooth

UN water report on what ails water management today

Village of woe

The water woes of Patti Pachgai village in Uttar Pradesh are being compounded by the incompetent responses of the state government and local NGOs.…

Economy of slippage

Pumping iron

The training of women in the maintenance of hand-pumps has not only flooded them with confidence, it has rescued a government water supply …

Is a 24-hour water supply possible?

An answer to this question was attempted at a workshop organised in Hyderabad, from September 23-24, 2003, by the Administrative Staff College of …

Water woes in wet Kerala

More than 2,000 mm of rain in 2003 but crops destroyed and farmers committing suicide; crores spent on 31 irrigation projects but villages going …

On privatising water

What about privatising water? Should India move to do it? What tips the scales in its favour, and what doesn't? In 2003, two editorials in Down …

An Act to commodify water

Meghalaya's draft water Act water omits conservation and management from the sustainability point of view

The water bearer

ANNA HAZARE bids a heavy-hearted farewell to the late Vilasrao Salunkhe, better known as 'pani baba'. Salunkhe's revolutionary concept of '…