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Springing back to life
CHIRAG in Uttarakhand works with communities to revive local springs to achieve water security.
Freshwater fish species across the world under grave threat (Source: IWP Flickr photos)
Global freshwater fish species under grave threat: IUCN
News this week
People protesting Dibang Hydropower Project (Source: SANDRP)
Dibang hydel project gets approval
Policy matters this week
Hirakud, India's oldest dam (Image source: India Water Portal on Flickr)
Gender in hydropower development: A long way to go
A study finds that hydropower organisations in India continue to maintain a culture of hierarchy, follow masculine norms and are insensitive to the needs of women and the marginalised.
The design of Chand baodi (stepwell) in Abhaneri village, Rajasthan, was intended to conserve as much water as possible (Image: Unseen Horizons, Flickr Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0)
Rajasthan's ancient yet ever-evolving water heritage
A book documents the enormous range of water harvesting systems still in use in Rajasthan.
People take a boat to cross the flood-ravaged Brahmaputra (Source: IWP Flickr photos)
Floods grip Assam and Bihar
News this week
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu have been fighting over Cauvery water sharing for a long time (Source: Wikipedia Commons)
Meghalaya draft water policy, Inter-State River Water Disputes (Amendment) Bill both get approval
Policy matters this week
A can of 20 litres of RO filtered water costs around Rs. 20 in Chikballapur. Image credit: Karthik Seshan
The many facets to the fluoride problem in Chikkaballapur, Karnataka
INREM Foundation and The Fluoride Network have worked in Chikkaballapur extensively, to battle the problem of fluoride contamination in groundwater.
Indian children tapping water (Image: Global Water Partnership, Flickr Commons, CC BY NC-SA 2.0)
Budget 2019 talks big on water
But have the crucial schemes received more money than last year? We talk to some experts in the water sector to find out.
Irrigation well in Randullabad, Maharashtra. Image credit: Manu Moudgil for India Water Portal
Budget allocation to Jal Shakti ministry reduced by 9.4 percent
Policy matters this week
Queuing up for water (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)
Neglect and lack of monitoring behind country's water scarcity: CWC
News this week
Image used for representational purposes only. Image source: India Water Portal on Flickr
Adequate water most important for plant diversity
Study shows how rainfall and temperature affect variety of plants in major bio-geographic zones of India
A millet crop ready for harvest in rural India (Image Source: Wikimedia Commons)
Cultivating more millets to make food production climate resilient in India
A study finds that selectively increasing coarse grains/millets in crop production can greatly help in reducing the negative impacts of climate shocks on future food production in India.
The main bazaar of Leh (Image: Christopher Michel, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0)
Is it all downhill from here for Leh?
Rapid urban growth, scarce water resources and a high risk of natural disasters pose serious challenges for Leh's urban planning and governance.
Chilepata core forest area in Buxa, Alipurduar district of West Bengal (Image: Tridib Choudhury, Wikimedia Commons, CC-SA 4.0 International)
Go green this Van Mahotsava
The major cause of insufficient forest cover in India seems to be ruthless cutting of trees in the name of urbanization and development.
The Sutlej, from Bilaspur (Image Source: Wikimedia Commons)
Glacier melt threatens water reserves in Satluj basin
A new study finds that 55% of the glaciers in the Satluj basin could disappear by 2050 and 97% by 2090 due to climate change.
Villages under water which gushed in as Cyclone Aila struck south 24 Parganas. Image credit: Anil Gulati from IWP Flickr. Image used for representational purposes only.
How can forecasting of extreme rainfall events be improved?
Greater precision in forecast of extreme events is critical.
Image credit: Sourabh Phadke from India Water Portal on Flickr
Urbanization, changing cropping patterns contributing to temperature rise
Study shows land use changes responsible for higher temperatures
A rainwater harvesting set up in a school in Chickmangalur district (Source: IWP Flickr photos)
Combating water crisis needs people's participation: PM Modi
News this week
Digging an open well that had some water at lesser depths ranging from 5-10 m using local technology in which a motor run winch draws up the dug up mud from the well bottom. (Image: Rahul Banerjee)
The need for survival edge technology
Decentralised communitarian technology can mitigate the water crises facing us today.

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India will see more droughts in the future. (Image Source: Wikimedia Commons)
Wednesday, 4 December 2019 14:53
Looking back into history to understand droughts
Windmills in Karnataka, India. Picture credit: India Water Portal
Monday, 2 December 2019 12:55
Wind energy development and policy in India
A mining site in India (Image Source: Wikimedia Commons)
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Shoddy impact assessments, mining and ruin in Goa
Routine check done by the sewage treatment plant staff in Delawas, Jaipur. The plant is part of the ADB best practices projects list. (Image: Asian Development Bank, Flickr Commons)
Thursday, 21 November 2019 12:29
Jaipur’s wastewater conundrum