Shift in priorities

Penny foolish, pond wise

Once parched, Dewas in Madhya Pradesh is now a lush green district

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

Bengaluru water crisis: Their suggestions ignored for over a decade, two hydrogeologists prescribe an immediate solution

The cumulative impact of these measures would meet the water requirement of 14 million people in Bengaluru, without any dependence on groundwater

Australian researchers develop model to estimate groundwater recharge more accurately

To provide a more precise estimate, they used improved chloride deposition map with enhanced data, spatial coverage

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 26, 2024)

Down To Earth brings you top environmental cases heard in Supreme Court, high courts and National Green Tribunal  

Are Indian megacities forgetting their rainwater endowment?

Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi mandated rainwater harvesting but are struggling for over a decade to implement the impactful structures on ground