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Iran’s capital faces unprecedented water shortages and even possible evacuation. What changes could help?

Iran’s capital faces unprecedented water shortages and even possible evacuation. What changes could help?

7 hours ago

4 min read

45% of people in Ghana, Niger and Nigeria live in areas of high water risk, study finds

45% of people in Ghana, Niger and Nigeria live in areas of high water risk, study finds

12 Nov 2025

3 min read

AdaniConneX data centre in Noida.

India’s digital thirst: What data centre giants aren’t saying about their water use

Rohini Krishnamurthy

10 Nov 2025

8 min read

News

45% of people in Ghana, Niger and Nigeria live in areas of high water risk, study finds

45% of people in Ghana, Niger and Nigeria live in areas of high water risk, study finds

12 Nov 2025

3 min read

AdaniConneX data centre in Noida.

India’s digital thirst: What data centre giants aren’t saying about their water use

Rohini Krishnamurthy

10 Nov 2025

8 min read

Groundwater levels in Khora Colony in sector 62, Noida, are fast depleting. A data centre is being built a kilometre away.

India’s digital thirst: A booming data centre corridor in Uttar Pradesh’s GB Nagar is running on empty wells

Rohini Krishnamurthy

07 Nov 2025

7 min read

Akkalenahalli Mallenahalli village is home 200 people and a site for a new proposed data centre.

India’s digital thirst: How Bengaluru’s tech dreams are colliding with a worsening water crisis

Rohini Krishnamurthy

06 Nov 2025

11 min read

Yotta Data Center Park, a sprawling 20-acre facility, was inaugurated in Greater Noida in 2022.

India’s digital thirst: Data centres are rising in water-scarce regions — and locals are paying the price

Rohini Krishnamurthy

04 Nov 2025

8 min read

Flushed and forgotten

Flushed and forgotten

03 Nov 2025

2 min read

Liquor in a thirsty land: Kerala’s parched Palakkad fights a new alcohol factory

Liquor in a thirsty land: Kerala’s parched Palakkad fights a new alcohol factory

26 Oct 2025

6 min read

Wetland Woes!

Gobar Times: Wetland Woes!

26 Oct 2025

1 min read

BBNJ treaty receives 60 ratifications, will enter into force to protect marine life in international waters in January 2026

BBNJ treaty receives 60 ratifications, will enter into force to protect marine life in international waters in January 2026

Rohini Krishnamurthy

20 Sep 2025

2 min read

Gobar Times: Every drop counts

Gobar Times: Every drop counts

Vipin Kumar Tyagi

14 Sep 2025

1 min read

Vembanad Lake, Kerala’s most photographed symbol of serenity, may be scripting its own obituary

Vembanad Lake, Kerala’s most photographed symbol of serenity, may be scripting its own obituary

09 Sep 2025

3 min read

Open defecation in low-income countries four times higher than global average: UN report

Open defecation in low-income countries four times higher than global average: UN report

27 Aug 2025

3 min read

Interviews

Economist and Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee

‘The poorer you are, the more expensive water is’

Preetha Banerjee

08 Nov 2025

2 min read

Global South cities have a crucial opportunity to learn from costly mistakes elsewhere on land subsidence: Leonard Ohenhen

Global South cities have a crucial opportunity to learn from costly mistakes elsewhere on land subsidence: Leonard Ohenhen

Sushmita Sengupta

25 Oct 2025

8 min read

Himalayan springs are cultural and ecological lifelines. But scientific studies on them remain fragmented: Vinod Kothari

Himalayan springs are cultural and ecological lifelines. But scientific studies on them remain fragmented: Vinod Kothari

04 Oct 2025

4 min read

Getting the BBNJ Agreement ratified at the United Nations Ocean Conference will be an ambitious task: Nichola Clark

Getting the BBNJ Agreement enter into force at the UN Ocean Conference will be an ambitious task: Nichola Clark

Rohini Krishnamurthy

24 Apr 2025

6 min read

Bengaluru after Day Zero: ‘City’s government & people took water scarcity head on & will convert crisis into opportunity’

Bengaluru after Day Zero: ‘City’s government & people took water scarcity head-on & will convert crisis into opportunity’

17 Aug 2024

4 min read

Krishnarajasagar dam on the Cauvery river, Karnataka. The researchers studied Cauvery basin, among others. Photo: iStock

‘Baseflow one of most important factors driving river flooding in Peninsular India’

29 Apr 2024

6 min read

Blogs

Iran’s capital faces unprecedented water shortages and even possible evacuation. What changes could help?

Iran’s capital faces unprecedented water shortages and even possible evacuation. What changes could help?

7 hours ago

4 min read

Rethinking Gurugram’s waterlogging fix: Let the city absorb, not divert

Rethinking Gurugram’s waterlogging fix: Let the city absorb, not divert

08 Nov 2025

6 min read

Flooded promises: Bihar’s manifestos stay silent on the state’s deepest crisis

Flooded promises: Bihar’s manifestos stay silent on the state’s deepest crisis

04 Nov 2025

6 min read

Invisible deaths: How India’s climate crisis abandons its sanitation workers

Invisible deaths: How India’s climate crisis abandons its sanitation workers

David Sathuluri

01 Nov 2025

6 min read

Dried spring in Kolbong Khasmahal, once a vital source of life for the community, is now a symbol of Himalayan water insecurity.

Where springs once sang, silence now echoes across the Eastern Himalayas

Kabindra Sharma

17 Oct 2025

4 min read

Donald Trump, President of the United States of America, addresses the UN General Assembly on September 23, 2025.

Trump’s dip into the Nile waters dispute didn’t settle the conflict — in fact, it may have caused more ripples

29 Sep 2025

5 min read

There is a gendered dimension to water

There is a gendered dimension to water

25 Sep 2025

4 min read

The Ganga River is drying faster than ever — here’s what it means for the region and the world

The Ganga River is drying faster than ever — here’s what it means for the region and the world

25 Sep 2025

4 min read

Videos

Uttarakhand Health Crisis: Almora deaths

Uttarakhand Health Crisis: Almora deaths

The recent Uttarakhand deaths must spur the water and health departments into action, and steps should be taken to ensure regular cleaning and inspection of drinking water quality

18 Oct 2025

1 min read

Treaty in abeyance: Climate, conflict & Indus waters

Treaty in abeyance: Climate, conflict & Indus waters

30 Apr 2025

1 min read

Climate conflicts: Building the largest dam on Brahmaputra’s Great Bend in China

Climate conflicts: Building the largest dam on Brahmaputra’s Great Bend in China

01 Apr 2025

1 min read

World Water Development Report 2025: Glacier melt threatens billions

World Water Development Report 2025: Glacier melt threatens billions

26 Mar 2025

1 min read

How to bridge the increasing water gap in India?

How to bridge the increasing water gap in India?

22 Mar 2025

1 min read

Unrelenting heat and the increasing water gap in India

Unrelenting heat and the increasing water gap in India

13 Mar 2025

2 min read

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