Home remedies
Indigenous is the byword in the water harvesting techniques followed in India's northeast. In Meghalaya, an intricate network of bamboo pipes is …
Legacy of an empire
Encouraged by their ninth century benevolent rulers, Gond landlords and villagers had set up an intricate and immensely useful network of …
The State's non-bureaucratic role of encouraging the people
Indian rulers rarely built water harvesting structures themselves. They, however, encouraged their subjects to build them through fiscal …
Diverse technologies: a treasure trove
Our traditional water harvesting structures demonstrate the people's ingenuity at its best. Using unique modes and basic engineering skills, …
Crossing the rainbow
With the coming of the Rajiv Gandhi Mission on Watershed Development, a major change took place in the degraded wasteland that was Jhabua
Catching water where it falls
A movement to recharge the depleted groundwater aquifers in a parched district of Madhya Pradesh gathers momentum
Changing lives
A development project, which has got patronage from the panchayat, is changing the face of many villages in North Bengal
Land restoration target revised to 26 mln ha: Experts call for strategy overhaul
Due caution must be exercised in setting standards and policies for restoration of degraded lands, say experts
In-depth: Climate change and water
In a world driven by climate change water, as a public resource, has become crucial. In this series, four experts look at different …
Distress looms over water-starved Chennai
People of other parts of Tamil Nadu — home to about 67 million people — have also been hurt
Water crisis not due to of lack of resource, but mismanagement: Union minister at CSE conference
The minister was speaking at the 2023 Policy and Practice Forum, an international gathering of water, wastewater and sanitation management …
Bundelkhand's bravehearts
For villages that survived recurring droughts, the economic-ecological connection makes more sense
A ‘One Water’ approach is key to combat urban challenges, manage resources
Shift needed from single-minded, linear water management to multi-dimensional integrated water management technique
Water strongholds
Chittor and Ranthambhore. Proud traditions of valour, chivalry and patriotism are complemented by one of common sense in the storage and use of …
A social force called water
The state is struggling to meet the rising water demand. It is time to learn from the days when people arranged their own water. In cities and in …
Rainwater rights
The government- NGO friction at Lava ka Baas has opened a Pandora's box water ownership, archaic laws and hopeful communities that want to hold …
Not only depletion, sparse data on Himalayan springs is also a big concern
Greater awareness, understanding and a national springs’ inventory can help achieve water security for the future
In-depth coverage: Drought, but why
Drought now affects people across classes. India needs a new strategy for disaster management
One missed opportunity, 330 million drought-stricken Indians
We could have been drought-proof by 2010 had we only harvested rainwater. Sixteen years later, India's villages are paying the price
Where the water is
Engineers in Jaipur are developing a software that would help quench the thirst of parched villages
In wonderland
Jhabua in Madhya Pradesh is a many-splendoured wonder where indomitable political will and the tribals have proved that the regeneration of the …
When the old gods died
From a wooded upland Jhabua became an example of extreme ecological degradation. The story of its recovery is remarkable
Delhi hosts Water Asia 2000
Amid private companies' high-tech solutions to the water crisis, CSE presents a decentralised view of water management
Reviving nature
A professor heralds hope and greenery into a remote Orissa village to set it free from a web of untouchability, superstition, illiteracy and poverty
Vindicated
The Magsaysay award for Rajendra Singh has meant volte-face by critics of community-based water harvesting