Chennai Is Getting India’s First “Ring-Main” Water System — Built With a $230 Million Climate Loan
Chennai’s relationship with water has been defined by extremes. In 2019, the city made international headlines when its reservoirs ran […]
Water Conservation
Seven Years, 12.68 Crore Taps: How the Jal Jeevan Mission Rewired Rural India’s Relationship with Water
Seven years ago, if you lived in rural India, the odds were roughly five to one that your home did
India’s Reservoirs Are About to Become Solar Farms — Meet the Pradhan Mantri Surya Sarovar Yojana
India’s solar expansion has always run into the same quiet constraint: land. Ground-mounted solar parks need tens of thousands of
Delhi’s New Plan to Clean the Yamuna Starts With an Unlikely Culprit: Cow Dung
For years, one of the quieter contributors to the Yamuna’s pollution problem has had nothing to do with factories or
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900 Indian Cities Are Racing to Catch the Monsoon Before It Runs to the Sea
In Itanagar, rooftop rainwater harvesting systems are now feeding storage tanks instead of letting monsoon runoff wash straight into the
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One Chhattisgarh District Built Nearly Three Lakh Water Structures in a Year — and the Monsoon Deficit Hasn’t Stopped It
When Prime Minister Modi spoke about the #CatchTheRain movement during the 135th edition of Mann Ki Baat, he was making
How One Chhattisgarh District Built Nearly 3 Lakh Water Structures in a Year — and Brought a Nala Back to Life
In Chhattisgarh’s Balod district, a 14.3-kilometre stretch of nala — a seasonal drainage channel — was dead for most of
India Is Using Wetlands to Clean Its Most Polluted Rivers — Here Is How It Works
There is a quiet frustration in conventional river cleaning. Build a sewage treatment plant, connect the drains, watch it work
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Sunil Jajjada’s Desert Miracle: Bringing Kashmir’s Prized Spice to the Arid Lands
In the scorching heart of the Thar Desert, where temperatures routinely breach 45°C and the land receives barely 300 mm
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