Large dams not an answer to water shortage

There is a need to find better solutions

Bone of contention Nepal's water bill

Bangalore to get treated wastewater

500,000 billion litres

Roadside rainwater harvesting potential in India remains untapped

High fluoride content in Khordha, Nayagarh groundwater

Children are at higher risk from contaminated drinking water

When 'calamity' strikes

Water harvesting is the new catchword for the government struggling against drought. And the media is going out of its way to spread the word. In …

Water revolution

It is not easy to initiate a movement for water conservation in the face of drought. But the Madhya Pradesh government pushed forward in all the …

In Short

Make India drought-proof

A non-priority?

Environment managers do not count

Stranglehold

Pesticides: what's the way out?

Flaying the environment

Tanneries: ill-managed, technologically challenged

Black liquor

Agro-based pulp and paper: technological inability?

Balancing act

Energy: economic and environmental compatibility

Free flow

Water: industry is misusing it, but for how long?

Wahtech

But what has the state done?

Wah India

Arsenic

The dark zone

When Down To Earth correspondents nidhi jamwal and d b manisha started filing their reports on the problem of fluoride and arsenic in groundwater,…

Public private prank

Review finds ADB's policy doesn't hold water

Since 1998, adb has invested us $960 million in urban projects in India.

A watershed plan

Recurrent droughts and floods coupled with mass poverty, chronic unemployment and pervasive malnutrition are the major challenges before India. …

Delhi, The biggest culprit

Parched soil

Balochistan, Sindh face drought