Water-stressed in India: Experts unfazed over Bengaluru’s dismal JSA ranking

Bengaluru’s water woes and rapidly-depleting groundwater reserves led to it getting an abysmal 200th rank

Two talukas in Maharashtra face worst drought in memory

Experts blame it on poor groundwater management, lax attitude of government in providing irrigation facilities

Water is wealth

Excerpts from the Statement of Shared Concern by the participants of the CSE conference on Potential of Water Harvesting: Traditions, Policies …

Pitching in for a pond

The government and people of Madhya Pradesh have joined hands in their fight against drought through various jan sahyog programmes

Born again

Bapu's homecoming

Practical Spiritualism

If only cities can see wetlands

It is time we realised that a water body is not an ornamental luxury or a wasted land

Ghelhar Choti (Jhabua) Participatory success

Mandlikpur (Rajkot) Life with Recharged Wells

Gandhigram (Kachchh) Taking Loans to harvest Water

Raj-samadhiyala (Rajkot) leading by example

THUNTHI KANKASIYA (DAHOD) a turnaround

Holding their own

Villages which have harvested rainwater are faring quite well in the face of drought

Run-up to UN Water Conference: A third of people surveyed by global study suffer from freshwater shortage

Strong concerns about freshwater shortages have increased over the past few years, from 49% in 2014 to 61% in 2022

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 …

'Farmers in Ladakh are among biggest victims of climate change'

After inventing the first artificial glacier in 1987, Chewang Norphel came to be known as “Ice Man of India”. He talks about how …

Water turns the tide

A barren district of Rajasthan is seeing development, thanks to rains last year and flood in 2006

The need of the hour

Experts all over agree that rainwater harvesting is the best way to improve the lot of villages

Confluence of thoughts

Water warriors from across India shared their experiences in harvesting water at a conference, which aimed to 'Make Water Everybody's Business'

The negotiators

Of India's 18 major rivers, 17 are inter-state. In all cases, the water is intensely fought over. In all cases, there seems no resolution. In …

Forgetting science

Waiting for a miracle

Citizens approaching the courts for protecting lakes in cities is all very well. But in the end, it is a choice between using land for water or …

DPCC rapped for not checking if Metro rail, other agencies have rainwater harvesting systems

National Green Tribunal threatens contempt proceedings if pollution control panel fails to comply with orders in a week

Time Locked

Government watershed programmes run for a limited period. The impractical timeframe threatens to undo the goodwork