Composite Water Management Index

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India’s Groundwater Caught Between Industrial Growth, Sustainable Development

Shashikant Yadav 08/09/2020

The groundwater extraction rate in India is the highest...

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The World Needs More Energy but Has Less Water to Spare for It

Deepak Krishnan 05/12/2018

Over 70% of India’s existing thermal-power utilities are likely...

The road to the Kedarnath temple in the early winter. Credit: SHUBHANSHU AGRE/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

A Himalayan Price Is Being Paid for Government Bid to Widen a Pilgrim Route

Rashme Sehgal 11/07/2018

While the Uttarakhand government is keen to encourage tourists,...

The CWMI pulls no punches because it does not contain the information needed to identify new opportunities for new investments and gaps in the existing infrastructure. The Srisailam Dam. Credit: syshook/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

NITI Aayog’s Water Management Index May Be an Experiment but It Is Lazy

K.A.S. Mani 26/06/2018

In its current form, the Composite Water Management Index...