Water

For ages, rulers in Kashmir have constructed canals to improve life and production. But there is no ruler who could come even closer to Budshah. While most of them survived for half of the...

One of the major belts that Budshah made famous was the Zainageer in Sopore outskirts. He had built a palace and set up a vast canal to help people produce more food. More than...

Once famous for its fish, Nadru, and vegetable gardens, Anchar Lake struggles to survive encroachment, waste dump, and official neglect. Syed Asma reports Son of a fisherman Ashraq Kundroo, 29, has lived almost his entire...

From Sangam in south Kashmir to Asham in north, Jhelum’s serpentine course is literally battling for its space. The river that once witnessed an epic Battle of Hydaspes on its banks is now in...

In Gade Khud village, just 17 kilometers from Srinagar city everything comes to standstill when a government installed community tap comes to life. Official apathy has turned this picturesque village into Kashmir’s Thar, Riyaz...

Over the years, all attempts to conserve Dal Lake have turned out to be half hearted efforts. Despite official claims that modern day lake management tools are in practice, the extent of onslaught encountered...

The splendid beauty of Brari Nambal lagoon once fascinated the King of Kashmir, Budshah, but gross neglect over the years has now reduced it into a ‘miserable’ cesspool. Bilal Handoo finds out that there...

Come November and a group of villagers in Bandipora row their boats into Wular Lake to extract water chestnuts which are then supplied to markets in and outside the state, Bilal Handoo reports. Located barely...

Fresh water springs, fed by the glacial melt, have sustained Kashmir for ages. But we have fast losing these life giving precious water bodies to collective callousness. Suhail A Shah takes a look at some...

As the Indus Water Treaty gave storage rights over three rivers to Pakistan, J&K could have somehow benefited from Ravi. But an agreement that lured the state into partnering with Punjab over Thein Dam, doomed...

The Indus Water Treaty has given Islamabad rights over three J&K rivers – Chenab, Indus and Jhelum with an average flow of 135 million acre feet (MAF) in lieu of 33 MAF flow in...

For the Awantipora people, water is no better than poison. Saima Bhat reports on a town whose only source of water leads to disease. Adil (name changed), 22, had a fever for two weeks and...

Sangloo has been so abused and polluted by locals living along its banks in Shopian that the river stands transformed from a source of life to a reason for spreading disease. Javaid Naikoo reports. Sangloo,...

With the increase in incidences of drowning in Kashmir, the small team of rescue and recovery River Police is ill-equipped and lacks manpower to deal with the situation. Shafath Hussain reports.Whether it was sheer...

They had to wait 28 years for a small lift irrigation scheme to complete, meanwhile people living in the 18 Tral villages suffered losses in agriculture. Syed Asma reports The villagers around Rajpora thought that...