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Floods

Unchecked growth adds to water woes

As summer sweeps, the sweltering heat reminds us of the now looming water crisis across the Indian urban landscape that swings between two extremes - capricious floods that paralyze cities overnight during monsoons and chronic water scarcity that leaves millions struggling for a drop during summer.

Women take lead in revival of rivers

Small rivers have been getting depleted and sometimes simply vanishing in many parts of the country. This has aggravated the problem of floods as well as droughts, as people are denied access to their water in drought years and during floods, rain water which would have flowed into these rivers instead turns towards human habitations.