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Faecal sludge management in Ethiopia.

Treatment and safe disposal are the weakest links in the African sanitation systems

31 Dec 2025

5 min read

Is groundwater India’s biggest invisible employer?

Is groundwater India’s biggest invisible employer?

Sushanta Kumar Mahapatra

29 Dec 2025

3 min read

FSTP in Badaun, Uttar Pradesh.

The biosolid bottleneck: Why Uttar Pradesh’s sanitation story remains half finished

19 Dec 2025

6 min read

News

How Dar es Salaam’s poor are bearing the brunt of a water crisis

How Dar es Salaam’s poor are bearing the brunt of a water crisis

17 Dec 2025

5 min read

As told to Parliament (December 4, 2025): Over 81% of rural households now have tap water connections

As told to Parliament (December 4, 2025): Over 81% of rural households now have tap water connections

04 Dec 2025

3 min read

Hidden resource

Hidden resource

Raman Jeet Singh

01 Dec 2025

2 min read

Government of Odisha plans tourism boost around Hirakud Dam amidst environmental concerns

Government of Odisha plans tourism boost around Hirakud Dam amidst environmental concerns

Priya Ranjan Sahu

21 Nov 2025

3 min read

45% of people in Ghana, Niger and Nigeria live in areas of high water risk, study finds

45% of people in Ghana, Niger and Nigeria live in areas of high water risk, study finds

12 Nov 2025

3 min read

AdaniConneX data centre in Noida.

India’s digital thirst: What data centre giants aren’t saying about their water use

Rohini Krishnamurthy

10 Nov 2025

8 min read

Groundwater levels in Khora Colony in sector 62, Noida, are fast depleting. A data centre is being built a kilometre away.

India’s digital thirst: A booming data centre corridor in Uttar Pradesh’s GB Nagar is running on empty wells

Rohini Krishnamurthy

07 Nov 2025

7 min read

Akkalenahalli Mallenahalli village is home 200 people and a site for a new proposed data centre.

India’s digital thirst: How Bengaluru’s tech dreams are colliding with a worsening water crisis

Rohini Krishnamurthy

06 Nov 2025

11 min read

Yotta Data Center Park, a sprawling 20-acre facility, was inaugurated in Greater Noida in 2022.

India’s digital thirst: Data centres are rising in water-scarce regions — and locals are paying the price

Rohini Krishnamurthy

04 Nov 2025

8 min read

Flushed and forgotten

Flushed and forgotten

03 Nov 2025

2 min read

Liquor in a thirsty land: Kerala’s parched Palakkad fights a new alcohol factory

Liquor in a thirsty land: Kerala’s parched Palakkad fights a new alcohol factory

26 Oct 2025

6 min read

Wetland Woes!

Gobar Times: Wetland Woes!

26 Oct 2025

1 min read

Interviews

Economist and Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee

‘The poorer you are, the more expensive water is’

Preetha Banerjee

08 Nov 2025

2 min read

Global South cities have a crucial opportunity to learn from costly mistakes elsewhere on land subsidence: Leonard Ohenhen

Global South cities have a crucial opportunity to learn from costly mistakes elsewhere on land subsidence: Leonard Ohenhen

Sushmita Sengupta

25 Oct 2025

8 min read

Himalayan springs are cultural and ecological lifelines. But scientific studies on them remain fragmented: Vinod Kothari

Himalayan springs are cultural and ecological lifelines. But scientific studies on them remain fragmented: Vinod Kothari

04 Oct 2025

4 min read

Getting the BBNJ Agreement ratified at the United Nations Ocean Conference will be an ambitious task: Nichola Clark

Getting the BBNJ Agreement enter into force at the UN Ocean Conference will be an ambitious task: Nichola Clark

Rohini Krishnamurthy

24 Apr 2025

6 min read

Bengaluru after Day Zero: ‘City’s government & people took water scarcity head on & will convert crisis into opportunity’

Bengaluru after Day Zero: ‘City’s government & people took water scarcity head-on & will convert crisis into opportunity’

17 Aug 2024

4 min read

Krishnarajasagar dam on the Cauvery river, Karnataka. The researchers studied Cauvery basin, among others. Photo: iStock

‘Baseflow one of most important factors driving river flooding in Peninsular India’

29 Apr 2024

6 min read

Blogs

Faecal sludge management in Ethiopia.

Treatment and safe disposal are the weakest links in the African sanitation systems

31 Dec 2025

5 min read

Is groundwater India’s biggest invisible employer?

Is groundwater India’s biggest invisible employer?

Sushanta Kumar Mahapatra

29 Dec 2025

3 min read

FSTP in Badaun, Uttar Pradesh.

The biosolid bottleneck: Why Uttar Pradesh’s sanitation story remains half finished

19 Dec 2025

6 min read

From concrete walls to living edges, here’s how riverside habitats are being restored along the Thames

From concrete walls to living edges, here’s how riverside habitats are being restored along the Thames

10 Dec 2025

3 min read

A young woman measures the spring’s discharge.

When a spring sings again: How a Himalayan village revived its lifeline

Kabindra Sharma

08 Dec 2025

8 min read

Researchers develop ‘sedimentation budget’ to guide India’s river revival efforts

Researchers develop ‘sedimentation budget’ to guide India’s river revival efforts

Manaswini Vijayakumar

02 Dec 2025

3 min read

Iran’s president calls for moving its drought-stricken capital amid a worsening water crisis — how Tehran got into water bankruptcy

Iran’s president calls for moving its drought-stricken capital amid a worsening water crisis — how Tehran got into water bankruptcy

02 Dec 2025

5 min read

Five ways to make the ocean economy more sustainable and just

Five ways to make the ocean economy more sustainable and just

Susan Gourvenec

20 Nov 2025

4 min read

Videos

Uttarakhand Health Crisis: Almora deaths

Uttarakhand Health Crisis: Almora deaths

The recent Uttarakhand deaths must spur the water and health departments into action, and steps should be taken to ensure regular cleaning and inspection of drinking water quality

18 Oct 2025

1 min read

Treaty in abeyance: Climate, conflict & Indus waters

Treaty in abeyance: Climate, conflict & Indus waters

30 Apr 2025

1 min read

Climate conflicts: Building the largest dam on Brahmaputra’s Great Bend in China

Climate conflicts: Building the largest dam on Brahmaputra’s Great Bend in China

01 Apr 2025

1 min read

World Water Development Report 2025: Glacier melt threatens billions

World Water Development Report 2025: Glacier melt threatens billions

26 Mar 2025

1 min read

How to bridge the increasing water gap in India?

How to bridge the increasing water gap in India?

22 Mar 2025

1 min read

Unrelenting heat and the increasing water gap in India

Unrelenting heat and the increasing water gap in India

13 Mar 2025

2 min read

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