カテゴリー: Water
Centuries-old wells restored to provide drinking water as parts of the country head towards “day zero” when no water will be availableA loud cheer and sounds of clapping reverberated around Bansilalpet, a neighbourhood in Hyderabad, when the first tric…
Abandoned beaches, public health warning signs and seagulls eating human waste are now features of the popular coastline in New ZealandA tide of anger is rising in New Zealand’s capital, Wellington, as the city’s toilets continue to flush directly into…
The Mohana of Pakistan’s Sindh province once thrived on the lake but pollution and drought have caused the fragile ecosystem to collapse, along with their way of lifeAt the mouth of Lake Manchar, gentle lapping disturbs the silence. A small boat cuts t…
Buoyant, the size of a lentil and almost impossible to recover: how nurdles are polluting the oceans
Millions of the tiny plastic pellets are being washed up on the coast of Kerala in India in the latest in a series of global spills, as plastic treaty talks continue in GenevaWhen a Liberian-flagged container ship, the MSC Elsa 3, capsized and sank 13 …
Wular Lake once supported 5,000 people who harvested the plant’s edible roots, until the lake silted up after floods. Now the lotuses are back “We threw seeds into the lake hundreds of times, but nothing grew. It’s only now, after the silt was cleared,…
NGO says Afghan capital’s 7 million people face existential crisis that world needs urgently to addressKabul could become the first modern city to completely run out of water, experts have warned.Water levels within Kabul’s aquifers have dropped by up …
Belvoir St Theatre, Sydney; then heading to MelbourneCounting and Cracking creator S Shakthidharan uses family and fable to examine epic ideas in this story of a community under threatGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailHaving made his name with…
Indus treaty, which had survived 65 years and three wars between countries, has been paused after Kashmir attackIn July 2023, Ali Haider Dogar was one of tens of thousands of farmers in central-eastern Pakistan whose crops were submerged after India re…
Hundreds of millions of pilgrims flocked to the Ganges for this year’s festival, housed in a sprawling temporary metropolis stretching across 4,000 hectares of the floodplains of Prayagraj in Uttar Pradesh For 45 days the floodplains of Prayagraj, a ci…
From the Himalayas and Nepal to Northern Ireland, sustainable source of energy seems to be back in vogueIn the foothills of the Himalayas, a group of villagers hauled a sturdy metal waterwheel into place. Its horizontal blades soon caught the rushing w…
Always prone to natural disasters, the country’s plight has worsened, and not only because of the climate crisisOn 10 May 2024, Haroon Nafas was in his family’s guesthouse in Baghlan, north Afghanistan, spending time with friends who had come to stay. …
Heavy rainfall in Guangdong causes flooding, landslides and mudslides, while northern China gripped by heatwaveGuangdong province in southern China has once more experienced severe flooding, two months after the late April floods and landslides led to …
With heatwaves becoming more frequent in Bengaluru and other cities across the country, climate planning must look to people on the margins, experts sayVenkatachala starts his day early, neatly arranging jasmine, roses, chrysanthemums and crossandras o…
As the climate crisis forces people to abandon their land in Rajasthan, a new industry has sprung up in the desert state, with thousands of gaily decorated vans setting off to sell ice-cream across the countryThe parched villages of Gangapur in the des…
As rising sea levels and extreme weather contaminate drinking water sources, doctors are seeing alarming numbers of women with serious health problems including pre-eclampsiaPhotographs by Farzana HossenIn the small, crowded ward of the Upazila Health …