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 J ...

India’s great river deltas have long been seen as landscapes of abundance. A river delta is a triangular lobular landform created when rivers empty their water ...

Declining groundwater levels and growing neglect of traditional water sources in rural Uttar Pradesh have deepened water scarcity. Their disappearance has also reshaped village life, weakening social ...

Explore how India is tackling water stress through circularity. Learn about wastewater recycling in cities and farms, ...

Explore a structured summary of the National Report 2024 on Jal Jeevan Mission. Learn how India is shifting from water ...

As Raipur expands, the Kharun River Basin faces intensifying floods and sediment loads. Explore how climate change and land-use shifts are erasing the predictability of India’s monsoon heartland.

The Inland Vessels Act, 2021 (replacing the 1917 Act), provides a modern, uniform legal framework for inland water navigation in India, which deals with registration, safety standards, and operation ...

India’s rural development push is entering a more demanding phase. The Union Budget 2026–27 makes clear that building infrastructure is no longer the main challenge. The harder task now is to keep ...

India is the world’s largest user of groundwater, with over 21.9 million wells and tubewells extracting an estimated 247 billion cubic metres annually. This invisible resource supports most of the ...

It is 2026, and safe drinking water in India is still not a given. For many urban residents, water remains an invisible certainty, flowing through taps until it suddenly doesn’t. When it fails, it ...

This article explores why ease of access, social norms, and slow-moving cultural traits shape how rural households accept community-based water purification systems and what this means for improving ...

An FAQ that breaks down India’s blue economy in plain language while highlighting opportunities, risks and the importance of climate resilience. India’s “blue economy” refers to all economic ...