Last month, the southern Indian city of Bengaluru faced an early start to the monsoon and experienced its wettest May…
On 23 April, India announced it would suspend the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT), a landmark water-sharing agreement with Pakistan signed…
While treated wastewater in India is often discharged into water bodies or used for non-essential purposes such as irrigating public…
Basanti Devi sits in her courtyard, surrounded by plastic containers, most of them empty. She points to a tap, held…
According to a new report, the Hindu Kush Himalaya is experiencing significantly lower snow persistence in 2024, raising serious concern…
As clouds gathered on the horizon one morning in late May, the residents of Kadamtala in India’s Andaman Islands were…
In many places, solar power projects are being sited on natural forestlands, even in America’s greenest state, Vermont. This ignores…
On Tuesday, 30 April, the Congress accused PM Narendra Modi of ignoring the plight of farmers in Marathwada and also…
Amidst a water crisis in Bengaluru, experts advocate optimal water use, effective recycling and recharging of water bodies. Smart, synergistic…
Water in South Asia has always had a complicated history, right from early civilisations to the present day, where rivers…
Almost 100 years ago, around 3,000 Dalits, or “untouchables”, dared to drink from a public water tank in Mahad, Maharashtra,…
For many tribal villages in and around Jharkhand’s Saranda forest, traditional chuas or shallow pits are the only source of…
Local residents of North Goa routinely face water shortages that they allege is due to the airport construction on the…
Parts of Bengaluru are facing a water shortage following inadequate rainfall last year that impacted water resources. The authorities have…
As the Shahpurkandi barrage on the river Ravi in the Indian state of Punjab nears completion, there are fears in…
The number of Hindi language films that feature environment, wildlife or climate change in their messaging, is seeing an upward…
Heavy fuel from a defunct power station flowed into streams on January 10 in Kangpokpi district in Manipur. The water…
In October this year, the Indian forest department gave final clearance for a project to transfer water from the Ken…
A lot can go wrong in a large urban water system. Pumps malfunction. Valves break. Pipes leak. Even when the…
In the Jaisalmer district of Rajasthan, farmers have harvested the limited rainwater with an indigenous technique called ‘khadeen’, that has…
With India’s national elections less than a year away, key state assembly polls have stirred the political pot with regional…
A year ago, in the final declaration from COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh, the global climate community finally started to…
The COP28 U.N. climate summit, which begins in just a couple of weeks, aims to make water more of a priority…
Close your eyes. Now imagine that you are seated next to a stream that is at walking distance from your…
Water is a central element of the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Israel controls several water…
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