India’s First-Ever National Water Summit Just Set the Template for How States Should Manage It
For a resource that touches every single sector of the economy — agriculture, industry, drinking water, sanitation, disaster preparedness — […]
Water Conservation
A 25-Year Water Dispute Just Ended — What the Bihar-Jharkhand Sone River Agreement Actually Means
Rivers don’t stop for state borders, which is exactly why so many of India’s longest-running water disputes are actually border
115 Lakh Hectares and Counting: How “Per Drop More Crop” Is Quietly Rewiring Indian Irrigation
More than 80% of the water India has available goes to agriculture. And yet, of the country’s net sown area,
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
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