Coimbatore attempts to save waterbodies

Interview: Popatrao Pawar, sarpanch, Hivre Bazar

Digging shallow

Delhi to get Waterbodies Authority

Over half the 900 wetlands have been encroached upon

Ministers fight over funding National Rainfed Area Authority

A walk through Mangar Bani, a sacred grove near Delhi

No substance in budget's agriculture hype

Water wise

Experiments in budgeting water

State is trying to get farmers to budget water

India

The politics of inefficient irrigation technology

Central Water Commission overestimates the country's usable water resources

Saving future

Solution to crisis: start planning now

Hard rain down the drain

What's eating up the state's water

Tamil Nadu's temple tanks hold key to water recharge

But authorities cement tank beds and fail to restore water inlet channels

Science and Technology - Briefs

Addicted to groundwater

High Court order fails to wean Gurgaon off illegal wells

75% of Kolkata’s groundwater is now brackish due to over-extraction: Study

Impact more in south Kolkata as innumerable new multi-storied buildings there run on groundwater

‘Climate change one of many reasons for Kerala’s receding groundwater table’

Anand Zacharias, development associate (water) with MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, talks about how open well recharge system is helping …

Environment ministry's 50-year plan to tackle water crisis

An expert committee has proposed to regulate the overuse of water in agriculture by registration of inventories for borewells across the country

Cities need wisdom for water

Be it Cape Town or Bengaluru, the cities, especially in Global South, need to create a new future that is water-secure

Groundwater situation: Levels fell in most wells in 2017-18

In states like Delhi, Rajasthan, Telangana and Tamil Nadu, the number of wells having groundwater at greater depth have increased according to a …

Copying nature is the only way to revive our rivers

Artificial groundwater recharge programmes can't be the long-term solution unless they are supported with measures to conserve soil and increase …

Centre prepares Rs 6,000-crore plan to recharge groundwater

Once the scheme Atal Bhujal Yojana gets Cabinet’s approval, it will be implemented in water-stressed states such as Rajasthan, Haryana and …

Liability turns resource

Noida takes the help of Centre for Science and Environment; plans to harvest its stormwater to check flash floods while replenishing depleting …