The India Water Story News

Water is an integral part of India's growth story, whether it is for the country’s growing energy needs or for maintaining food security. However, India is a water-scarce country and the overexploitation of water resources could turn into a barrier for this growth story. With The India Water Story series, Mongabay-India aims to document the status of India’s water resources and examine the link between political/economic activities and water. In this series we will look at the varied forms of water and the impacts on them, including the monsoon, pollution, access to water, business of water, aquatic biodiversity, or its industrial, domestic, and agricultural use. The series will also look into complex facets including the impact of climate change on Himalayan glaciers to India’s monsoon, contamination of water to overexploitation of groundwater, droughts to floods, pollution of water bodies to sewage treatment plants, piped drinking water to sanitation, waterways to aquatic biodiversity, and ecological flow in rivers to hydropower projects. It will further analyse how the national and state governments are spending their budgets on water-related issues and the role of India's industry in innovating to address water-associated challenges.

Government report highlights groundwater contamination across India

[Commentary] Holding financiers accountable for bankrolling big hydro projects

How flood protection structures heighten flood vulnerability

Local lifeline, nature’s timeline, Varkala cliffs threatened by climate and human activities

Traditional engineers reduce water stress

Port project in Maharashtra cleared by environment ministry despite opposition from fishing villages

Creatures entangled: Ghost nets trap creatures small and great

Forest laws complicate access to safe drinking water for tribal groups

Traditional raft fishing threatened as reefs choke on plastic

When two livelihoods collide

Marine fisheries policy moving against the current of scientific recommendations

Three years after an oil well blowout, this Assam wetland is slowly coping

Resurrecting khadeen, the ancient water harvesting structure of Rajasthan

[Commentary] The Atal Bhujal Yojana, meant to address groundwater depletion, is missing a key part of water flows

[Commentary] Up close and personal with the fragility of the Himalayas

Ruza, a traditional water harvesting system for the water-scarce mountains

Bihar’s makhana and the wetlands they grow in

Environmentalists raise concerns as work on J&K’s Tawi riverfront continues

Finding gondra amid the floods

Farmers accuse a pesticide production company for distorting their crops; demand compensation and remedial action

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