The water crisis is on everyone’s lips. Volumes are being written on how to tackle this calamity — rainwater harvesting, irrigation and farming practices, restoring water bodies, interlinking rive...

Sir — The former chief election commissioner, S.Y. Quraishi, recently tweeted a video showing a monkey drinking water from a tap and then shutting the water off once he had had his fill. Quraishi ri...

Look for Mawlynnong on the map of Meghalaya. It’s a village relatively close to Cherrapunjee and Mawsynram, and is one of the wettest places on earth. But the villagers there often run out of water ...

Over seven lakh people of the capital who get water from Getalsud (Rukka) Dam in Ormanjhi had to spend Wednesday with dry taps owing to pipe-interconnectivity and maintenance work taken up by the stat...

Sir — After Sourav Ganguly, another former captain of the Indian men’s cricket team, Dilip Vengsarkar, who is also a former chairman of the selection committee, has expressed his dissatisfaction w...

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The thrust of the Prime Minister’s radio address on Sunday was on the water crisis in the country and the urgent need to tackle it.Narendra Modi exhorted the people to start a “mass movement” to...

A Karnataka government decision to divert water from the river Sharavathi in Shimoga to parched Bangalore, 430km uphill, has evoked stiff opposition from environmentalists and Shimoga residents.Oppone...

Madras High Court has directed the Tamil Nadu government not to prevent protests highlighting the water crisis and said it should work with organisations interested in conservation of water bodies to ...

Access to resources that are critical for the sustenance of communities should be recognized as rights. It is thus heartening to note that Madhya Pradesh is seeking to enact the Right to Water Act, a ...