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India’s water quality and scarcity issues can be tackled using science and community participation. However, to be effective, this needs to be done at scale.

Under the YSR Jalakala scheme, the Andhra Pradesh government will dig free bore wells to provide small and marginal farmers access to water.

In the water sector, the focus on fixing demand and supply is taking us away from the real problem: Unnoticed groundwater dependencies in ever-expanding urban India.

India is experiencing its worst ever water crisis. How did we get here?

A study on the impact of borewell failure on small-scale farmers shows that it directly leads to a decline in agricultural income.

KJ Joy on the state of activism in India today, access to water, interstate water conflicts, and people’s movements.

Despite being the lifeline of India’s water supplies, groundwater is overlooked by policy makers and users alike.

India's water problem is not about running out of water but about how to allocate a fixed resource. Without doing the latter equitably, India's water future remains bleak.

Rising private wealth and a deepening ecological crisis have gone hand in hand, and are symptomatic of the larger Indian growth story.

Our sewerage systems have not kept pace with urbanisation, and with Indian cities growing rapidly, it's worth examining how this impacts water.