As many as 256 of 700 districts reported critical or over-exploited groundwater levels as of 2017. Photo courtesy: RCH/Fotolia Fetching water in India has been perceived as a woman’s job […]
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Water crisis in India: Threats and Opportunities for India Inc
India faces daunting water security challenges. The demands of a rapidly industrializing economy and urbanizing society come at a time when the potential for augmenting supply is limited and water […]
Traditional water systems hold the key to India’s water crisis
Photo credit: Shutterstock There is a need to learn from our past, revive traditional water harvesting systems, and enable and empower communities to take back the management of water as […]
Panel recommends new central body to mitigate water woes due to lack of agency coordination
The Parliamentary Standing Committee report also found excessive dependence on groundwater Photo: iStock State- and central-level bodies that currently bear responsibility for issues related to water, lack coordination between them, […]
Neerain is featured on Wikipedia !
We are brimming with heartfelt emotions as we write this message to express our deepest gratitude. With your unwavering support, NeeRain has achieved a momentous milestone in its journey – […]
Why Rainwater Harvesting is Crucial to Solving India’s Water Woes
India is reeling under the most severe water crisis in its history for several reasons including two consecutive monsoons that failed. According to a Composite Water Management Index (CWMI) report […]
Making India water-secure: Solutions for the future
Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink’ – this predicament of the sailors in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s famous poem is a portent to our collective futures; one with […]
Let’s not go for a dry run
If you knew that water covers 70% of our planet, you would imagine there’s no scarcity of this precious resource. If you also knew that naturally occurring freshwater, with low […]
These two cities are teaching the culture of drops to the world
Photo: Getty Images When Chennai was facing a severe water crisis and people were fighting among themselves for a bucket of water, the two cities separated by 10,000 kilometers and […]
Water should be the next important environmental target for India
Environmental targets are becoming common place in the current global scenario, with a large focus on reducing emissions. Unrestricted emissions lead to global warming and resulting climate change and could […]