Cauvery

Located in the Thanjavur district and spread across 564 acres, the lake was responsible for irrigating 6,000 acres of agricultural land. However, due to constant misuse and exploitation by the soil mafia, it did not hold sufficient water.

The humpback mahseer, as it was unofficially called, was also nearly exhausted due to the introduction of new species into the Cauvery basin. A paper published in 2015 outlined how the humpback mahseer is under threat of imminent extinction.

A controversial debate over how the river, Kaveri, will be shared, forces us to think: what are we really fighting for?

An unusual expert who practices what he preaches, A R Shivakumar believes that nature holds all the answers.

The Dewan of Mysore for a span of 18 years, Sheshadri Iyer's able administration laid the foundation for much of modern Bengaluru's infrastructure and many of the city's landmarks.

A team of doctors showed amazing dedication in a daring midnight medical mission on Thursday. Amidst the Cauvery unrest, they travelled with a patient from Bengaluru to Tamil Nadu under cover of darkness, even walking the last stretch to do a liver transplant that saved his life.

Combining these ecologically safe traditional systems with modern rainwater-saving techniques could be the answer to India's perennial water woes.

Save the rain for a sunny day with these 7 techniques, using which you can set up your own rainwater collection system at home.