Water


What's going on in the water world?

'The ATMs bringing cheap, safe water to Naironi's slums

Water in Nairobi’s slums has been largely managed by cartels, costing far more than in the city’s most affluent areas. A new innovation may just end all that

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India caste unrest: Ten million without water in Delhi

More than 10 million people in India's capital, Delhi, are without water after protesters sabotaged a key canal which supplies much of the city.

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Better water management could halve the global food gap

Improved agricultural water management could halve the global food gap by 2050 and buffer some of the harmful climate change effects on crop yields. For the first time, scientists investigated systematically the worldwide potential to produce more food with the same amount of water by optimizing rain use and irrigation.

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