But not a drop to drink. The heat wave has already killed more than a thousand people all over India. Taps in major metros are running dry. Water bodies are evaporating. Groundwater supplies are

At a time when river networking is being touted as a panacea for the entire country’s water woes, the tide of opinion in Karnataka is turning against the concept. The dissent is moored to a proposed local scheme to divert Nethravathi river

Dhaka is being milked dry. Of late, there has been a rapid decline in the city s groundwater table. In fact, it has depleted by over 20 m during the past six years

Human negotiation with its own capacities and actions often tends to be triumphalist. A man admires

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The 1970s and 1980s were a time of massive state investment in rural water development. Not only had more land to be brought under irrigation, but also drinking water supplied. These decades saw an

The official attitude towards fluoride-laced groundwater is best seen in the manner the state has gone about solutions. In a 1999 nationwide study New Delhi-based Fluorosis Research and Rural

When Down To Earth correspondents nidhi jamwal and d b manisha started filing their reports on the problem of fluoride and arsenic in groundwater, we were shocked by the extent of the problem

Fluoride is an acute toxin, with a rating slightly higher than lead. It is, in fact, one of the most bone seeking elements known to human beings. And groundwater in India shows the presence of unhealthy quantities of fluoride. A worrying scenario: daily i

Central Uttar Pradesh is literally on shaky ground. Land subsidence has been reported from several districts of the region, including Fatehpur, Farrukhabad, Kannauj and Unnao. Alarmingly, the culprit is neither seismic nor mining activity, but excessive g

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