KATE KELLAND

A gene that makes bugs highly resistant to almost all known antibiotics has been found in bacteria in water supplies in New Delhi used by local people for drinking, washing and cooking, scientists said on Thursday.

MICHAEL KANELLOS

We are facing issues of near-overwhelming complexity and unprecedented urgency. Can we think systemically and fashion policies accordingly? Can we change direction before we go over the edge? Here are a few of the many facts from the book to consider:

By Heather Somerville

By Chris Holly 

• Bad sanitation, water account for 7 percent of global disease
• Billions of people have no access to hygienic toilets

Written by Jeff Thurston

Source: Reuters

By Alan Wheatley, Global Economics Correspondent

The $62-billion South-North Water Diversion, which will bring water to the parched capital, is being compared to the Great Wall. But environmentalists are up in arms about the 'replumbing' of the nation's great rivers.

Jim Wilson/The New York Times