Fire at Bayer plant
Toxic gas leak kills one, three villages hit
How pure are their claims?
Market for water purifiers booms, but consumers cannot be sure of quality in absence of regulations
Water woes acquire gargantuan proportions
The country’s national leaders have shown a remarkably weak appetite on policy and legislation
Lake Victoria: CSE lays out strategy to manage water quality in Tanzania
Startegy for Mwanza city suggests greater focus on Nyashishi river needed, connecting households to sewer lines and waste segregation
Jobs round the year: How MGNREGA made Balangir job-secure
The success of MGNREGA projects has made Odisha offer 300 days of guaranteed work a year to curb distress migration in this district
Spring in a box
A village in Maharashtra solves its water crisis by building underground boxes to tap spring water
Fundamental judgement
Clean drinking water is a fundamental right, states the Supreme Court and wants government to set up environmental courts
Ground reality
As the water crisis surfaces yet again, illegal borewells spring up in and around Delhi. Binayak Das and Suresh Babu on a plummeting water table …
Villagers march to revive the Meghal river
Even as citypeople all over India were finalising their Christmas party-hopping plans, a celebration of a very different kind galvanised Junagadh …
The missing manual scavengers of India
Government surveys are confined to statutory towns, highlighting the fact that the Centre looks at it as an urban problem
Changes in South Africa’s rainfall seasons could affect farming and water resources
Trends across different rainfall zones demonstrated patterns that can be linked to changes recorded for large-scale climate systems, the study found
Indo-Pak study reveals extensive arsenic problem in Punjab groundwater
The study found that 23 per cent of the 30,567 wells they covered had arsenic content higher than the prescribed limit
CSIR develops technology for disinfecting water at Rs 2/litre
Science and Technology Minster Dr Harsh Vardhan said the domestic model can provide 10 litres of water in just five minutes and one full charge …
New study points out how ODF villages are better off
Non-ODF villages much more at risk of contamination, finds study by Centre, UNICEF
How DTE covered World Water Day 2023
A national workshop held in Lucknow by CSE on ‘Sustainable and Inclusive Sanitation and Water for All’ highlighted the steps Uttar …
Punjab can't scrap water-sharing agreements with states: Supreme Court
The court cancelled a law passed by the Punjab legislature, terminating a water-sharing deal with five other states
Telangana requests central aid for tank restoration
Mission Kakatiya is a flagship programme aimed at restoring tanks and water bodies in the state. This will help small and marginal farmers …
Nearly a third of Nigerians don’t have access to a basic supply of water. This is partly because of loopholes in a law
Corruption, overvaluation of projects and favouritism in contract awards add to problems such as lack of funds, limited government capacity
How do India’s policies and guidelines look at ‘urban lakes’?
The country has come a long way in the fight to protect these bodies of water, but much more needs to be done
Tribunals alone can’t save our dying rivers: experts
Even as the dispute between Odisha and Chhattisgarh over Mahanadi river water has snowballed into a political fight, civil society organisations …
To treat toxic wastewater without chemicals, scientists develop nanomaterial from seaweed
The nanomaterial obtained from seaweed has shown very high adsorption capacity for lead and chromium
Why India needs to change the way it manages water resources
Most of the water planning and development in the country has been done as per administrative boundaries rather than by using river basins as the …
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 …
`Industries easily find political protection whenever we are strict'
Uma Bharati, Union minister of water resources, river development and Ganga rejuvenation, speaks to Sushmita Sengupta on the challenges of …
Secrets of the water fort
Planners in the ancient city of Dholavira had conceptualised an amazing system of drains, dams and tanks to manage water. To conserve every drop …