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If you’re living in Delhi, you’re drinking uranium – and the government knows it

While Delhi’s smog dominates the winter headlines, an invisible poison is surging beneath the streets of a city that discusses its water crisis every year in familiar terms, from supply shortage to frothing.

Newslaundry · Dec 19, 2025

In ‘the land of abundant water’, Jal Jeevan has a cruel truth

Anita Tripura wakes up at 3.30 a.m., pulls out her teesing –  – a large bamboo basket with aluminium pots stacked up inside it – and marches downhill in darkness. The teesing is attached to a long cloth-band that hangs from her forehead. A flickering kerosene lamp that she holds…

Newslaundry · Dec 15, 2025

‘All I see is darkness’: How Punjab’s basmati exports are worsening its groundwater crisis

Harwant Singh Aulakh, a farmer in his late sixties, grows basmati rice near Amritsar, just as his father and grandfather did before him. Amir Ghafourimanesh, a commodities importer in Tehran, Iran eats basmati rice leisurely as his father and grandfather do.

Newslaundry · Mar 17, 2025

Ground water level on the rise in Kasaragod

Scientists for strengthening check dams and well recharging systems

The Hindu · Jul 5, 2022

Delhi: How central agency is looking to strengthen network for monitoring groundwater situation

NEW DELHI: The Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) is aiming to strengthen its existing network of hydrograph monitoring stations for a better assessment of the situation of groundwater in Delhi, officials have said.

The Times of India · Feb 21, 2022

In deep water: South Delhi residents in a fix over flooding of basements

NEW DELHI: With some perplexity, and some poetic licence, residents in south Delhi could well be saying, ‘Water, water everywhere, nor anywhere to dig’.

The Times of India · Feb 6, 2022