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Bottled drinking water in India: Issues and challenges

21 Oct 2024

5 min read

The school was faced with water scarcity (WaterAid India)

Streams of hope: How water revitalised tribal education in Palewa, Chhattisgarh

31 Oct 2024

7 min read

Using household drinking water with care

RO filter use and water wastage in Gurugram, Haryana

Angad Singh Miglani

22 Nov 2024

4 min read

Women in India still bear the burden of fetching water from long distances

JJM helps reduce drudgery of marginalised women, but still favours the rich

04 Dec 2024

6 min read

Water, a valuable resource

Reusing water is the mantra to save the next generation

Raghunandan Prasad

28 Dec 2024

2 min read

Student champions and safe drinking water in Assam. (Image Source: IWP Flickr photos)

After the pipes are laid: What does it take to sustain safe rural drinking water?

Madhavi Purohit

27 Jan 2025

5 min read

Jal Jeevan Mission has brought water to rural India's doorstep. But what’s succeeding, what’s struggling, and can it sustain itself for the future?

From infrastructure to impact: Securing Jal Jeevan Mission’s future

Manu Srivastava

03 Apr 2025

8 min read

Water taps at every doorstep, what next?

Water taps at every doorstep, what next?

23 Apr 2025

7 min read

Manzoor Wangnoo looks over papers in his office. He started as a businessman and now works with the community to protect Kashmir’s environment.

Rivers and Lakes

Himmat-e-marda, madade khuda: How one man’s faith and action revives dying water bodies in Kashmir

17 Aug 2025

12 min read

Dr Robin Dutta demonstrating the use of Arsiron Nilogon technology in Anantapur village in Mirzapur , Uttar Pradesh

Arsiron Nilogon: Assam’s homegrown solution to tackle arsenic contamination in drinking water

Aarti Kelkar Khambete

07 Aug 2025

8 min read

Sita balances nearly 20 litres of water on her head. This is her third trip today, walking back under the harsh Melghat sun.

Three Kilometres for a Pot of Water: In Maharashtra’s Melghat Region, Clean Water Is Still a Distant Dream

Sharat Chandra prasad

07 Aug 2025

6 min read

The rolling hills of Shillong, also known as the ‘Scotland of the East’

Tankers in the Abode of Clouds: Shillong’s Growing Water Crisis

01 Aug 2025

8 min read

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