Droughts and Floods

A woman stands with a begging bowl and a placard strung around her neck. An old man shuffles along barefoot in the street at Jantar Mantar, the official site of a farmers’ protest in the heart of New Delhi. He finds his way through a group of farmers gathered at the protest site on a hot summer afternoon.

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

Uttarakhand takes decisions to save its natural resources

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

Seven percent of rural India has no access to clean water: World Water Day report

This story is of Punawli Kalan village in Uttar Pradesh, where a community with the support of a women-led federation, solved its water woes by developing a community-owned water supply system.

Southern India reels under drought-like conditions

The key issue in the Manipur Assembly election is the ongoing economic blockade in the state, which, in turn, is attributed to the present government’s decision to

Arunachal’s Etalin and J&K’s Sawalkote hydel projects get clearance

There was a time when the farmers of Yavatmal district depended completely on rainfed agriculture. That was before the introduction of Doha, a water harvesting structure by NGO Dilasa Sansthan in 2014. Farming changed drastically after that, something which Sitaram Kove, a 40-year-old farmer of Rajini village in the district, will vouch for.