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Gori river in Uttarakhand in spate during 2013 floods (Source: Chicu Lokgariwar, India Water Portal)

Heavy rain and floods hit North India

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Women filling water from a tap (Source: IWP Flickr photos)

Government to spend Rs 3.5 trillion to provide potable water

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Hydel project near Kullu (Image: Nadir Hashmi, Flickr Commons)

Hydropower in the Himalayas: Potential and risks

Study highlights significant hydropower opportunities in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region.

Parthasarathy temple in Triplicane has the biggest tank. Recently, volunteers belonging to the Central Industrial Security Force cleaned the tank. Pic: Laasya Shekhar

In photos: How temple tanks are helping Chennai conserve rain water

During the monsoon, temple tanks in Chennai fill to the brim with water, helping in groundwater recharge.

Flash floods following extreme rainfall left Vadodara inundated in Early August. Pic: Concerned Citizens of Vadodara

When crocodiles roamed city streets: The real reason behind Vadodara floods

Urban flooding in Gujarat has led to some strange developments in recent weeks.

Floods in Majuli Assam. Photo credit: Mitul Baruah

Beyond the death toll: The everyday violence of Assam’s floods

Mitul Baruah from Ashoka University narrates personal experiences of people affected by floods in Majuli, Assam.

CCMobile App compatible with Android and iOS, tends to connect farmers with their crop (Image: YourStory)

Growing crops, one byte at a time

Mobile agri-advisory services provide timely and relevant advice to farmers. But do they translate to practice in the field?

A cluster of mangroves on the banks of Vellikeel river in Kannur, Kerala (Image: Wikimedia Commons; CC BY-SA 3.0)

Mangroves: Powerhouses of carbon storage the planet desperately needs

Mangroves are carbon-dense ecosystems that can play an important role in carbon storage, study suggests.

Rescue efforts underway during the floods in Chennai in 2015 (Source: IWP Flickr photos)

Floods claim 227 lives; Centre proposes river basin management bill to check floods

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Many springs in the Himalayas have reduced discharge. (Source: India Water Portal)

Government set to conserve India's springs

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Picture: The semi-arid regions of the Moyar-Bhavani River basin in Tamil Nadu. Picture credit: Prathigna Poonacha, Tanvi Deshpande; Indian Institute for Human Settlements from India Water Portal on Flickr. Picture used for representational purposes only

P Sainath: The water crisis is not caused by drought

Magsaysay award winner & founder-editor of PARI, P Sainath analyses India's water scarcity, the agrarian crisis & farmer suicides, before asking: what can we do about it?

Fishermen use wastewater of Kolkata to rear fish (Image Source: India Water Portal)

Protecting the kidneys of Kolkata – the East Kolkata Wetlands

A real estate boom is tightening its grip on the East Kolkata Wetlands, a unique waste processing ecosystem. Cooperation and coproduction, not conflict are needed to save them.