COVID-19
Ensuring right to water during pandemics and beyond
It is the 10th anniversary of the recognition of human rights to water and sanitation and our approaches to ensuring water and sanitation during this […]
Category: Water
COVID-19
Recover Better With Nature: Personhood Rights to Rivers can help
It is now clear that when humans shut down, rivers flow healthy. The evidences that we have gathered during the Covid19 lockdown should be […]
Biodiversity
The Baghjan Blowout: The Disastrous Oil Spill in Upper Assam and its Impacts
Keshoba Krishna Chatradhara The Baghjan oil spill poses a serious threat to the rich biodiversity of Dibru-Saikhowa National Park. Dibru-Saikhowa and the satellite areas are […]
Aid
Human interest story: Strengthening livelihoods, Restoring the rainforest in Philippines
Arianne Gijsenbergh This human interest story tells the inspiring tale of Linda Deconlay, a member of the indigenous Talaandig Tribe, who is participating in […]
COVID-19
OPINION: COVID-19 IS TELLING US THAT IT’S TIME FOR GLOBAL SYSTEMS CHANGE — STARTING WITH WATER
Claudia Sadoff & Mark Smith To survive the coronavirus pandemic and minimize the adverse impacts of future shocks, we must address global water insecurity […]
Biodiversity
An open letter for saving the Environment of Maldives
Concerned about the continuation of irreversible, environmentally destructive and debt financed projects in Maldives during the current Covid-19 global public health crisis with consequent […]
Biodiversity
After Cyclone Amphan, broken houses and rotting fish
Joydeep Gupta Residents of the Sundarbans wonder why they are rebuilding, when their lands have been encroached for years by the seas, and their […]
Cities
Another Indian city, Bhubaneswar, inching closer to a groundwater crisis
Pragati Prava The capital city of Odisha is inching towards becoming a semi-critical zone so far as the groundwater scenario is concerned. With groundwater […]
Aid
Pandemic effect – can we save the SDG on water and sanitation?
Ashok Swain The Covid-19 pandemic could be the spur needed to aggressively pursue the Sustainable Development Goals, especially on water and sanitation, but it […]
Biodiversity
Nature gets a breathing space, but for how long?
Scientists and others concerned about climate change kept on urging human race to shift to greener paths of development; this pandemic sent out a […]
Biodiversity
Watch: DamNation | The Problem with Hydropower
Patagonia This film explores the evolution of our national attitude from pride in big dams as engineering wonders to the growing awareness that our […]
COVID-19
In India, fight against corona is a fight for water, against inequality
In the country, 7 percent of the population are without even a basic water supply close to home. About 81 percent rural Indians don’t […]