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Indore is India's cleanest city. (Picture courtesy: India.com)

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Women participate enthusiastically in the ‘Palwal super village challenge’ for last mile delivery of rural development schemes. (Pic courtesy: Abhinav Vats)

How 'super village challenge' in Palwal district set the benchmark for the speedy development of villages.

Climate change affects the quantity and quality of Darjeeling tea produced. (Pic courtesy: ISW)

Increasing temperatures, decreasing rainfall and change in relative humidity adversely affect the famous Darjeeling tea production.

A girl oars a boat to go to college. (Pic courtesy: Gurvinder Singh)

Village swims in desperation

Livelihood and education affected, villagers of a marooned land look for solutions.

A Kashmiri boy on a boat among lotus leaves on Dal Lake. (Pic courtesy: Safeena Wani/101Reporters)

Sewage to blame, Dal turns dull

Years of indiscriminate dumping of sewage turns Kashmir’s beautiful Dal Lake into an eyesore.

Hyderabad's sewage-filled drains cleaned manually

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Contentious Cauvery (Picture courtesy: NDTV)

Centre submits draft scheme on Cauvery water sharing

Policy matters this week

The photograph titled 'Nainital: Changing landscape in the Himalayas'. Image: Toby Smith, Pani-Pahar series

Disappearing waters of Himalayas

A photo exhibition focuses on the changing lifestyles of local communities in the Himalayas with changes in their environment.

Team collects data for emission inventory. (Pic courtesy: ISW)

Emission inventory for Delhi

Scientists and students come together to map air pollution sources in the capital.

Phoolbasan Yadav (right) receives Padmshree from President Pratibha Patil in 2012.

Where the mind is without fear

Phoolbasan Yadav’s journey towards empowering women in Chhattisgarh is an inspiring one.

Image for representation purpose only. Source: Pixabay

Storms in India: Science of Severity

The world may see more freak storms due to rising temperatures. Reducing pollution and protecting forests are perfect preventive measures.

All stakeholders were brought on board to work on a comprehensive approach at tackling the fluorosis problem. (Image: India Water Portal)

Assam continues to battle fluorosis

Safer water and better nutrition were key in mitigating fluorosis problem in parts of the state.

Maps to rescue Ganga. (Picture courtesy: Hindustan Times)

High resolution maps of Ganga to aid cleanup

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Delhi's garbage (Picture courtesy: Hindustan Times)

Delhi against in-principle nod for alternate landfill sites

Policy matters this week

Without behaviour change, toilet infrastructure created will remain only structures that will never be used. (Image: India Water Portal)

Corporate hand in sustainable WASH

While Swachh Bharat Mission is focused on improving sanitation in the country, an ODF India remains a distant dream. Can corporate contribution ease the sanitation challenges India faces?

Sewage treatment plant in Kavoor, Mangalore installed under the Karnataka Urban Development and Coastal Environmental Management Project. (Image: Asian Development Bank)

Sewage management: Govt’s elephant in the room

Swachh Bharat Mission: Could the most ambitious cleanliness campaign in Indian history also be the most expensive failure?

Western Ghats provides moisture for rainfall. (Source: IWP Flickr photos)

Western Ghats a source of moisture for monsoon

A new study points out that the evapotranspiration from the vegetation over the Western Ghats accounts for one-quarter of the rainfall over peninsular India.