Figure it out yourself

A striking fact about water in India is the lack of reliable data about all its aspects: total potential, available supply and demand

Policy vacuum

In the absence of norms, political expediency becomes the norm for water transfers

Pipe dreams

The Bharat Nirman outpour

Rs 174,000 crore sanctioned for new scheme to build rural infrastructure

Get us water

Swimming pools and manicured lawns — rich communities’ extravagant choices are leaving too little water for the poor

Study finds socioeconomic inequality as the biggest problem behind water shortages in urban areas

A quick fix: How ponds built under MGNREGA turned lives around

The realisation that ponds can rapidly recharge groundwater has increased demand for MGNREGA

Water storage in major Indian river basins depleting

More than 60 per cent of the basins contain much less water than average storage over the last decade, CWC data shows

Growth thirsty

Groundwater level is plunging in Dhaka. Experts call for making rainwater harvesting mandatory

Water poisoning has officials in a tizzy

As confusion reigns over how municipal water in three Agra localities was contaminated, self-appointed social workers are trying to exploit the …

How to minimise chlorination's adverse health affects

Compromising with a necessary evil: this is literally true for chlorination -- the most widely used technology for disinfecting drinking water. A …

Bhopal gas survivors' Delhi march delivers little

Dissolve Central Water Commission to save Ganga: Experts

The panel has its hands full, say activists at India River Week

Picking up the tab for industrial growth

People's participation in resource management

Toxic turnover

Homicide by Pesticides: words of shared concern

Thriving on sewage

Two industrial units in Chennai find an alternative source of water: city sewage

THAILAND

Filtered effluents

Australian scientists have developed a new technique to treat industrial and farm effluents

Need to save Goa's lifelines

Goa's water security depends on nine rivers considered to be the state's economic veins

Shallow pledges

The country's new water policy is nothing more than noble intentions

Deep cleansing

Rainwater harvesting can purge pollutants too

Fight for water ends in murders

Insurance against dirty water supply

Make water utilities accountable to public first, say activists

Water sharing with Bangladesh: It may still be too early to talk about Teesta river

Bangladesh PM brings up Teesta during agreement for Kushiyara river; Expert says clarity on water volume still lacking