India is turning to ancient water systems as modern ones run dry Water scarcity and climate change is driving communities to restore traditional water structures built centuries ago, bringing them back into use in the 21st Century. In 2025, water from the... See more
Em 2025, a água do Moosi Rani Sagar — um "baori", ou poço com degraus, na cidade de Alwar, no estado indiano do Rajastão — transbordou para a calçada pela primeira vez em mais de 30 anos. O poço com degraus, um grande reservatório onde se acessa a água po... See more
On the bed of the Ken River in Uttar Pradesh’s Banda district this June, farmers were growing vegetables in the exposed silt, running portable pumps into the last shrinking pools to keep the crop alive through the summer heat. A year ago, the same stretch... See more
Of the 54 transboundary rivers India and Bangladesh share, only the Ganges has produced a formal water-sharing agreement, but on December 12, 2026, that agreement is due to expire. The Ganges Waters Treaty (GWT) between India and Bangladesh has governed d... See more
In the Chhatarpur district of Madhya Pradesh, where the Vindhya hills flatten out into the dry plains of Bundelkhand, two forests sit next to each other and could not be more different. One is a devsthal, a sacred grove watched over by the village communi... See more
