It is 2026, and safe drinking water in India is still not a given. For many urban residents, water remains an invisible certainty, flowing through taps until it suddenly doesn’t. When it fails, it ...

From the ravines of the Mahi to the drought-prone Papagni, discover how FES and local communities are stepping up to restore ...

Discover how simple, rainfall-based irrigation strategies offer smallholder farmers a scalable, low-cost path to saving wheat ...

Experts warn that the Himalayas are facing an invisible water emergency beneath the ground, threatening springs, drinking ...

Overfishing and habitat decline threaten the Hooghly–Matlah Estuary. Explore the urgent policy shifts needed to save the ...

India is facing intense heatwaves this year. Nineteen of the world’s twenty hottest cities are now located in India. What are heatwaves? What is causing them? How are they affecting water availability ...

For millions of people across India, the monsoon determines the availability of water for drinking, agriculture, energy ...

Indian Summer Monsoon (ISM) contributes to 82% of India’s annual precipitation, impacting agricultural productivity and water availability in the country. Even a small rainfall deviation of 10–20 % ...

Wastewater treatment improves the quality of used water sources and makes water reusable by reducing contaminants to safe levels. However, much of the wastewater that is currently re-used is untreated ...

Toxic dyes and industrial waste from textile units in South 24 Parganas are seeping into Bengal’s water, soil, and food chain threatening the health of people in the region. In the southern fringes of ...

Tropical cyclones are among the most destructive weather systems affecting India, shaping lives along the eastern and western coasts every year. India experiences 5–6 cyclones annually, with the Bay ...

More than 10.86 million Indians depend on rivers, wetlands, floodplains, estuaries, ponds and tanks for subsistence and market-based fisheries. Though the absolute contribution of riverine fisheries ...