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India: A Question of Water Quality, India Between Har Ghar Jal and 'Luxury Litigation': A Question of Water Quality Official promises of near-universal tap wate

India: A Question of Water Quality

India Between Har Ghar Jal and ‘Luxury Litigation’: A Question of Water Quality. Official promises of near-universal tap water sit uneasily with judicial indifference to quality standards ...
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Hyderabad Lakes Degradation Continues

India’s Hyderabad Lakes 2025: Degradation Continues Amid HYDRAA Efforts.  The historic network of lakes in Hyderabad city has been under stress from increasing pollution and encroachment for p...
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India’s Union Budget 2026–27: Water & Life

From India Water Portal: With the Union Budget 2026–27 now announced, it’s a good moment to reflect on what the year ahead might hold for rural livelihoods, agriculture, and water systems. Here’s a cl...
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Himachal’s Waste in Punjab’s Waters

Himachal’s industrial waste poisoning Punjab’s waters: Study. Chandigarh: The industrial expansion in the Baddi-Barotiwala belt of Himachal Pradesh turned into an inter-state environmental issue, as u...
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India: Pune’s Water Scarcity Amid Plenty

India: Hilly villages trap runoff to tackle water scarcity amid plenty. In the rainiest pocket of India’s Pune district in Maharashtra, some villages near the mountains have historically faced a...
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India: Contaminated Blue Gold

If the rich drink mineral water, attracting multinationals, the population drinks polluted water and gets sick. There’s little available; the entire rice cultivation drinks it. India’s eli...
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India: Unsafe Water & Plastic Pollution

Distressing link between unsafe water & plastic pollution: Informal workforce tackling crises disincentivised.  India’s public health, waste management and sanitation crises cannot be solved in i...
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Menstural Dignity into India’s Constitution

Ink for the blank pages: Writing menstrual dignity into India’s Constitution.  For decades, India’s male-dominated administration ignored the systemic barriers menstruation poses to education. T...
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The Yamuna Memoir of a dying river

The Yamuna: Memoir of a Dying River

See the factsheet booklet about the Indian river, done by Nikeita Saraf. She is a Thane-based architect and urban practitioner, works as illustrator and writer with Question of Cities. Through her aca...
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