A tap connection is often seen as the final milestone in the journey towards water security. For rural households, it ...

As the city expanded and modern infrastructure drew attention elsewhere, neighbourhoods like Hill Top Colony remained on the ...

For workers in the urban informal sector in India, heatwaves don’t just bring discomfort—they pose serious health and livelihood risks and affect men and women differently. A severe heatwave is ...

Water scarcity has long been discussed as a crisis waiting to arrive. The latest global scientific assessment suggests that moment may already have passed. In January 2026, the United Nations ...

India has 18 percent of the world’s population, but only 4 percent of its water resources, which makes it among the most water-stressed in the world. A large number of people in India are now facing ...

Held before the monsoon each April, Kempakarai’s annual festival honours wells, rainfall, and shared water sources, bringing together villagers, relatives, and visitors in a collective expression of ...

In many parts of rural India, the challenge of accessing safe drinking water is compounded by unreliable electricity, degraded aquifers, and the lack of cost-effective purification technologies ...

A new study has found that the Ganga and Yamuna rivers in Prayagraj are dangerously polluted. The research links this contamination to untreated sewage, industrial waste, and agricultural runoff, ...

It’s only mid-year, but 2025 has already reminded us—loud and clear—that climate change is not a distant threat. It’s here, unfolding in real time across India’s hills, coasts, farms, and forests.

Mumbai, Chennai, Delhi, Surat, Thane, Hyderabad, Patna and Bhubaneswar are projected to witness a two-fold increase in heatwave days. Extended heat wave conditions are likely to trigger more frequent, ...

India’s Union Budget 2026 has put rivers at the centre of its growth story by focusing on strengthening ports, inland waterways, domestic shipbuilding capacities, reducing logistic costs, cutting ...

India's rural drinking water landscape has undergone a remarkable transformation in recent years. Since the launch of the Jal Jeevan Mission in 2019, household tap water coverage has expanded from ...