Watery grave

Encroachment is killing Guwahati's only river and wetlands that can save the city from perennial floods

Why does Mumbai sink almost every monsoon?

Mumbai comes to a standstill every time it receives heavy rainfall for consecutive days. Why is the city not prepared to deal with such extreme …

Lessons in dealing with floods

Jhajjar's bitter harvest

Waterhunt

Going thirsty in the Kerala backwaters

Stormwater channels

Unceremoniously dumped

Assam's evicted encroachers show legal proof of residence

Lifeline choked

Climate change to aggravate Kochi's problems

Global South water-sensitive cities: Here is how to make our urban areas water secure in a just and inclusive way

 Neo-liberal capital and builder-led urban development are splitting our cities into unequal parts

Chennai rains break multiple century-long records

Large parts of the city have remained inundated over most of the past three weeks

‘Don’t plug this hole’

Residents protest housing projects on lake in Mumbai suburb  

All the water they need

Rainwater harvesting is catching on in a big way in Kochi

Chennai floods: Panel report highlights encroachments, faulty drainage system  

The committee asked Tamil Nadu government to check real estate mafia involved in illegal construction and usurping of water bodies

Urban flooding may increase if wetlands not protected, says CSE

Centre for Science and Environment has recommended strong laws to protect urban lakes, their catchment and feeder channels

A monsoon warning

Green cussedness, anyone?

They did the impossible on land that held no hope

Flood sans river

The arsenic affinity

Why is rain a tragedy for cities?

Karnataka government reveals sad state of Bengaluru lakes

Thirty per cent of encroachment on lakes has been done by government agencies alone, state government press release says

A sustainable engineering disaster

Lucknow’s waterbodies perish at the hands of unregulated construction

Land records of Lucknow Nagar Nigam state the city has 964 tanks and ponds, a majority of which are unidentifiable due to reclamation

India's double challenge

Traditional system of flood management through lakes and connected water channels has been forgotten

Churning issue

Does the concept of interlinking India's rivers hold water? The debate rages on...

India desertified

Map of India to change soon. Courtesy: climate change