Project for irrigation

Pumping in diseases

Puddle muddle

Mumbai geared for monsoon?

Water doesn't drain in Kolkata, West Bengal

Chennai struggles as rains lash Tamil Nadu for second time in a week

Just weeks ago, Chennai was staring at the possibility of a severe water shortage as storage in reservoirs stood at an abysmal 90 per cent deficit

Crop failure

The daily bread

Bangladesh's flood victims have little or no work, and little or no money to buy food. And even the foodstuffs that are provided to them under …

500,000 billion litres

Roadside rainwater harvesting potential in India remains untapped

Drainage plan helps reclaim land

Scientists have evolved a subsurface drainage system that makes saline soils arable within three years

Save lakes from the sins of humanity

BIHAR GOVT CRITICISED

Our little understood urban dystopia

Concern over Brihanmumbai Storm Water Drains project

Floods ravage Odisha, kill eight

Several districts are waterlogged and no access to clean drinking water is a major issue

No digging

The black fever

While the nation's attention is focused on the caste killings in Jehanabad, a silent but deadlier killer is striking terror in Bihar. Kala-azar, …

DESTRUCTIVE DAM

Salt and water

How did it get so bad?

Ostrich policy and bad science. In Bihar, embankments built by government to prevent floods have been counter-productive

Spawning grounds

Environmental changes have led to the emergence of kala-azar in new areas

Is the alarm justified?

Yes. The disease is spreading fast. Yet there is little scientific data to devise a strategy to deal with it

Bihar to give subsidy to farmers who could not cultivate crops due to waterlogging

It has approved Rs 550 crore for farmers whose standing crop was damaged this monsoon season

The lie of the land

The Bhakra Nangal project's success is rooted in myth, says a new study

Watery grave

Encroachment is killing Guwahati's only river and wetlands that can save the city from perennial floods