Counting India’s waterbodies

Down To Earth breaks down data from the country’s first census on waterbodies conducted by the Centre last year 

CWC water availability report: Better methodology but questions remain

The current study has not looked at the most crucial data — how much water, of the total, is utilisable

India’s deepening water crisis: How villages had water before govt took over

Villagers captured rainwater wherever it fell. A hectare of desert land in Barmer, for example, can capture 1 million litres with a rainfall …

Catchment areas in India used to be climate change proof, but not anymore

An IIT-Indore study says human activities like deforestation, urbanization and conservation measures are taking away the resilience of natural …

Simply Put: Abode of the clouds

India’s water crisis: It is most acute for women

The water crisis is a women’s issue and feminists need to talk about it

Africa’s aquifers hold more than 20 times the water stored in the continent’s lakes, but they aren’t the answer to water scarcity

Due to changing climate & growing population, many of Africa’s surface water resources like dams & rivers are overused & …

World Water Day: Water management, dead rivers seminal issues in India’s groundwater debate

We can revive India’s groundwater if we make dead rivers come alive and manage and conserve water

Polluted surface and groundwater could cause a Cape Town-like situation

With there being a lack of proper implementation of water conservation measures and polluted surface and groundwater, Indian cities could soon …

75 years of people’s power: Tamil Nadu’s Nattathi village shows the way to grey water management

Over 35% of the households had kitchen gardens in their backyards and they began to use grey water to irrigate the gardens

World Water Day: Levels of water security in Africa ‘unacceptably low’, says UN report 

500 million Africans live in 19 most water-insecure countries; 483 million people lack sanitation on the continent 

Live storage in India’s reservoirs at 28% of total capacity

Live storage 87% of storage of corresponding period in 2020

Indus river system among world’s most vulnerable water towers: Study

The research, which looked at 78 global water towers, said they were at risk, mostly due to the threats of climate change

Can a centralised approach help solve water disputes?

A single national tribunal for inter-state water disputes will also enable discussion on the issue of international waters

New method can help predict reservoir levels three months in advance

Advance warning about likely deficit in reservoir storage could help in water management during droughts

Surface irrigation may encourage monocropping: Evidence from Telangana holds lessons for India

Providing farm households with new irrigation facilities that improve groundwater table also significantly enhances farm profits

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (March 7, 2023)

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

Water, Africa’s Gold: South Africa seeks to increase water through recycling, reuse

South Africa is using algae to treat its wastewater and reuse it in a number of provinces

A creative challenge: Designing proposals of 19 waterbodies in Faridabad

The project offered us an opportunity to bring substantial change through our work to the local environment and the lives of people living around …

Water-stressed in India: Ground water mostly neglected in rain-surplus South Goa

The district, which receives surplus rainfall, has repaired traditional mud bunds, desiltation of rivers and reviving old canals

Do we know how much water India actually has?  Yes  No  Can’t say

Experts say current methodologies used by the country to calculate water availability are not adequate

Doha Model shows how to rein in water for irrigation

In spite of its challenges, digging of streams and creation of pond-like structures along their length can provide farmers with the much needed …

By 2050, 115 million may face food insecurity due to reduced water level in Ganga

In the summers of 2015 and 2017, domestic water supply in the northern Indian plains was severely affected because of low water level in Ganga

Water, Africa's Gold: How water is now more expensive than food in parts of the Continent

Water, Africa’s Gold: Kenya’s urban slums need water, even as lakes Victoria, Turkana in trouble

Urban poor in Kenya bear brunt of water scarcity due to a number of reasons, even as trans-border lakes are on the verge of dying