Democratization of data through use of GIS technology
How technology enables monitoring and evaluation, or comparative analysis of developmental data from village to state level.
A view of a village in Almora district of Uttarakhand (Image: Raja Harjai, Flickr Commons)
Vulnerability in the times of Corona
When a pandemic strikes, it pushes the burden on the weakest in an unequal society.
Image: Muffinn, Flickr Commons
Using music to build water positive villages
A campaign tries to make watershed development work a citizens movement.
Women drawing water from a village well. Prior to watershed development and integrated water management, scarcity of water was a way of life for the people of Kumbharwadi (Image: WOTR)
Virtual water and water footprint
How much water do we consume directly and indirectly?
Food wastage also implies wastage of water (Image Source: WOTR)
In deep water
Will the World Bank honor its commitments to the poor in an Indian water project?
A water scheme violates Adivasi rights, threatens community water access and sacred spaces (Image: Anirudha Nagar, Accountability Counsel)
Water, the first line of defence against climate change
A report by WaterAid calls for a tenfold increase in current levels of climate finance that goes to WASH services.
Shantilata uses a cloth to filter out the high iron content in the salty water, filled from a hand pump, in the village Sitapur on the outskirts of Bhadrak, Bhuvaneshwar, Odisha (Image: WaterAid/ Anindito Mukherjee)
Remembering Mahad Satyagraha: Untouchability and water
Connection to basic infrastructure and access to essential services such as water are often used as a tool for social discrimination and exercise of power.
Can the simple act of drinking water be revolutionary? (Illustration by Chetan Toliya)
Clean water, a crucial weapon to combat COVID -19
The recent COVID -19 pandemic highlights the important role that access to clean water can play in dealing with such diseases in the future.
Is our tap water really safe? (Image Source: IWP Flickr Photos)
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