Conservation - Reducing Water Usage

Water scarcity has been the most pressing challenge to socio-economic and human development since ages. Globally, almost 800 million people do not have access to potable water. Reports from the United Nations state that one in every three people in the world is facing the water crisis.

The landmark report titled A 21st century institutional architecture for India's water reforms submitted by the expert committee chaired by Dr Mihir Shah on restructuring the

Kokapet, one of the study villages for the project ‘Ensuring Water Security in Metropolitan Hyderabad’, was the first village that we visited for field work. Even though we refer to them as ‘villages’, there was very little that we found village-like here.

After becoming a human entity, Ganga river receives first legal notice

Government releases fund for water conservation under MGNREGS

India's urbanisation continues unabated but most of its 53-million plus cities offer an appallingly low quality of life.

The next big war is said to be for water and it might happen sooner than we think. If the current water scenario across Karnataka and most parts of India is anything to go by, we might just be the generation to start this war. 

The annual droughts in Maharashtra have put tremendous pressure on the available water resources in the state.

Just seven to eight percent water left in TN’s reservoirs

Population growth estimates suggest that India will be supporting over 1.5 billion inhabitants by 2050 if the present growth rate of 1.9 percent per year continues.