"Water harvesting here is nota technique, but a culture"

ANUPAM MISHRA'S association with the Gandhi Peace Foundation (GPF) dates back to 1969. After working with the late Jai Prakash Narayan and the …

What goes down must come up

It is a crime. Numerous factories deliberately inject untreated effluents directly into the ground, contaminating underground aquifers. Down …

What goes down must come up

It is a crime. Numerous factories deliberately inject untreated effluents directly into the ground, contaminating underground aquifers. Down To …

Songs of fetching water

Numerous folk songs are weaved around women going to fetch water from a well. What do they say?

Wellbeing in Venice

Venice isn't just canals and aristocrats. anupam mishra gets off a gondola and stumbles into well workmanship and rainwater use

Temples of irrigation and land management

From the 9th century to the 16th century, south Indian kingdoms did not have irrigation or public works departments. Temples were given the job …

Not testing the waters

Case filed against British geological body for not providing information on arsenic contamination in Bangladesh's wells

How 40 villages in Odisha came together to address water crisis

Charmalik has recorded a 2-2.5 ft increase in the surface and sub-surface water level since 2010

Cities across India have started water rationing

The 2019 summer is going to be intensely water scarce as cities find themselves without adequate water sources 

COVID19: Green stimulus should step in to counter oil price crash

There is no inevitable link between oil prices and carbon emissions, a lot depends on responsible policy  

Good ol' dug well

Traditional shallow wells can supply arsenic-free water. All one needs to do is install it with caution

How did it go wrong?

The corrupt and inefficient among pollution control authorities have surrendered India's groundwater to unscrupulous industrial units

Disasters in the making?

Groundwater contamination in India is verging on disastrous proportions, especially with regard to mercury

Deep despair

Communities lose case against injection wells

Well-connected

Groundwater level can help predict earthquakes in Thar desert

Well wishing

Deeper wells are free of arsenic

Perturbing

Sumatra quake pushes water into Andhra's dry wells

Digging in the dirt

Horizontal drilling is a cost effective method to clear out polluted sites

Over 20,000 water bodies freed from encroachment in Bihar for rainwater harvesting

The state lost over 100,000 ponds in three decades, mostly to development projects

Well of death

Ulcerous!

A bacterium found in water wells causes ulcers

Natures own water purifiers

River banks are efficient water filters. Haridwar shows how to make most of them

As told to Parliament (July 20, 2023): 60% wells recorded rise in water level in May

All that was discussed in the House through the day  

Andaman revives WWII wells to deal with water crisis

Coping with drought

Rainfall is scarce, groundwater levels have fallen; what exactly is happening in Rajasthan?