Digging their Destinies
Villages in arid areas of Vidarbha and Marathwada fight back drought by reviving natural depressions along stream beds
Over 50% of world population to face water shortages by 2050: FAO urges countries to prepare for it
With agriculture contributing to 70% of freshwater consumption, agrifood systems thus become central to the water scarcity faced by the world, …
Choking Mahananda: How Siliguri’s waste, water crisis is turning on its people
Rapid urbanisation, inefficient waste management and encroachment have turned the Mahananda into a drain. And farmers are losing livelihoods
This Maharashtra village remains untouched by drought
Hiware Bazar that once learned from Ralegan Siddhi how to become water-secure can today teach it how to remain so
Managing water resources key for Tanzania’s sanitation fight
Part 2: Funding biggest bottleneck for carrying out plans; CSE team finds greywater mismanagement too
This tribal district has become 'immune to drought' with people's participation
Jhabua continues to flourish and maintain its status as a model district while many others fail
Art of gobbling up Yamuna floodplain
Without proper mapping and a plan for its acceptable use, no one can prevent the Yamuna floodplain from being gobbled up
Global South water-sensitive cities: Framing the discourse
Simply copy-pasting the concepts from the Global North will lead to sub-optimal solutions
How MGNREGA is promoting climate-smart villages
The works include constructing percolation tanks, households living in the catchment area for construction of check dams, afforestation, contour&…
Every drop counts: How a cooperative turned 250 acres of Dharmapuri green
Cooperative forest in Tamil Nadu’s drought-prone area an example of the power of water conservation
Rise and fall of water managers
Book>> Waternama, A Collection of Traditional Practices for Water Conservation and Management in Karnataka Sandhya Iyengar publisher …
Growth thirsty
Groundwater level is plunging in Dhaka. Experts call for making rainwater harvesting mandatory
‘Groundwater depleting fast in Indus, Ganga and Brahmaputra basins’
Shanti Swarup Prize 2020 winner Abhijit Mukherjee says Indian states with highest groundwater depletion rates were subjected to water-…
Rivulet resurrected in 45 days
Thousands of people working under NREGS bring a 38 km stream back from the dead in Uttar Pradesh
Jal Shakti ministry’s groundwater guideline shuns opportunity to address overall crisis
Complex groundwater systems cannot be controlled or predicted, but need to be better managed and made more efficient
Mr Prime Minister good news
The finance minister has said that the government is committed to double farmers' income in five years. Here are a few villages across the …
SSP falls prey to political machinations
Thirty years of planning, 15 years of construction, ten years of promises and Rs 15,000 crore later, the Sardar Sarovar Project is finally …
Restoring lakes not an engineering task: How some communities did the job
Local bodies and activists in Bengaluru, Pune are coming together to deal with lake pollution, de-silting, encroachment
Unhappy Bani
March of real estate threatens one of the last patches of native Aravalli forest near Delhi
Penny unwise, pond foolish
The government should have revived traditional water bodies and ponds to prepare Bundelkhand for drought. Rather, it spent Rs 15,000 crore to …
Why Chennai floods are a man-made disaster
An analysis shows that in just four decades, urbanisation in the city increased by almost 20 times
An oasis put to test
Backed by three decades of water conservation measures, semi-arid Saurashtra is driving Gujarat’s agricultural growth. Will it be able to …
Back to basics: COVID-19 labour crunch brings direct seeding of paddy in focus
States have been trying to promote DSR for some time; it is gaining traction now — Since June, when kharif sowing started, 0.7 million ha …
COVID-19: Punjab’s pond cleaning project gathers pace
The Punjab government generated employment of 1,052,524 man-days under the MGNREGA since May 12
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 …