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Reclaiming Wastewater: A Sustainable Path For Water Use In India

On 21 April, during a high-level committee meeting on the rejuvenation of the Yamuna river, VK Saxena made a plea…

10 months ago
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India’s Palm Oil Drive Faces A Reality Check

Palm oil has become essential to India’s food security in the past three decades, replacing other edible oils such as…

11 months ago
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Sikkim Reels Under Water Woes, Faces Hottest June

Gangtok, in Sikkim, was reeling under acute water shortage, after a cloud burst-induced landslide on April 20 damaged the city’s…

11 months ago
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Condition Of Our Water Bodies Is Concerning, Say Experts

India’s first water body census, which primarily focused on small water bodies like ponds, tanks, lakes, water conservation structures, and…

12 months ago
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‘Himalayan Glaciers Warming At Alarming Rate’

“I can assure you one thing that the mountains are changing. And they are changing very fast. There is something…

1 year ago
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Why India’s Palm Oil Plans Fail To Account For Climate Change

India's ambitious drive to expand domestic palm oil production fails to consider the subcontinent’s changing climate, analysis shows. It’s an…

1 year ago
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Human Rights Calamity: Billions Lack Access To Safe Drinking Water

Leaders and authorities recently gathered in New York for the first UN water conference in decades. The hope was that…

1 year ago
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Why Do Pipes That Crisscross Sikkim Run Dry

Every day, Bidya* spends three to four hours getting water from the thulo dhara, or big spring, three kilometres from…

1 year ago
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What’s Driving Hydropower Construction In AP?

Tone Mickrow, a member of the indigenous Idu Mishmi community, lives a few hours’ drive from Etalin – the proposed…

1 year ago
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Treated Wastewater Reuse Could Cut 1.3 Million Tonnes Of Emissions

Reusing treated wastewater in irrigation in India could have reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 1.3 million tonnes in 2021, according…

1 year ago
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‘Ganga, Brahmaputra Flows To Reduce Due To Global Warming’

Source: PTI UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that major Himalayan rivers like the Indus, the Ganges and the Brahmaputra, all…

1 year ago
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Green Hydrogen Production: Concerns Remain About Water Availability

India is targeting production of five Million Metric Tonnes (MMT) of green hydrogen by 2030. However, a discourse on its…

1 year ago
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India’s Push To Use Sugar For Fuel May Lead To Problems

Over the past few months, huge chimneys have been belching thick smoke incessantly on the outskirts of Meerut city in…

1 year ago
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The Hidden Waters Of The Himalayas Are Key To Mitigating Disasters

Within weeks of the partial evacuation of Joshimath, an ancient pilgrim town in Uttarakhand, northern India, land started to sink…

1 year ago
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Best Of ’22: Water In A Climate-Changed Region

Climate change is destabilising the freshwater supply on which all life depends. Multiple disasters in 2022 drove home the point…

1 year ago
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Drought Conditions Force Marathwada Farmers To Migrate For Work

It’s 8 p.m. on a rainy day in mid-October and a family of 10 from Beed has arrived in the…

1 year ago
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Shrinking Glaciers Threaten Energy Transitions

As glaciers shrink and monsoon rainfall becomes more unpredictable due to climate change, uncertainty around the viability of hydropower projects…

1 year ago
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Blue Jeans Is Costing The Planet Dearly

Eternally current and always fashionable, blue jeans are among the most-worn articles of clothing on Earth, transcending time, trends, and…

1 year ago
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Who Is Extracting Goa’s Groundwater?

Erwin Fonseca, a 47-year-old farmer lives in Goa’s Assagao, a village near the coast in the northern district of the…

2 years ago
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Europe Facing Its Worst Drought In 500 Years

Europe is facing its worst drought in at least 500 years, with two-thirds of the continent in a state of…

2 years ago
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Women’s Lives Get Harder In Bundelkhand As Water Scarcity Grows

Every day during the summer months, Kamlawati Yadav wakes up at 6 am and walks half a kilometre to a…

2 years ago
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How Will We Live With Limited Freshwater?

The best of traditional and modern approaches can support each other to avoid droughts becoming disasters. Human-caused climate change seems…

2 years ago
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Case For The Overhaul Of Water Mgmt Mindset

Ten major rivers flow down from the Hindu Kush Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau. Their basins cover most of Asia,…

2 years ago
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Climate Change: 100 Questions By Scientists

Scientists have identified 100 pressing research questions on climate change and water resources in the Upper Indus Basin (UIB), which…

2 years ago
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Hospitals In U’khand Struggle To Provide Care Due To Lack Of Water

Every day, the district hospital in Champawat needs at least 67,500 litres of water to function. But as water becomes…

2 years ago

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