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Counted, but not served?

Water remains inaccessible to the urban poor in the city of Mumbai as it continues to focus on developing new infrastructure to meet its very high per capita water needs. Why is this so?

Thirsty cities and the invisible poor (Image Source: Aathavan Jaffna via Wikimedia Commons)

Emerging water science for sustainable management

An accessible guide for water professionals and practitioners in India

Rapid changes such as climate change will have significant impacts on our freshwater systems (Image: Srideep, PxHere)

Urban green finance: Case of Hyderabad and Kolkata

Urban green finance flows require the integration of both vertical and horizontal levels of governance

The pandemic has amplified the need to undertake sustainable activities at the city level (Image: CCFLA)

Water contamination grips the country: Centre

News this fortnight

Water contamination continues to remain contaminated (Source: IWP Flickr photos)

Rajya Sabha passes Dam Safety Bill, 2019

Policy matters this fortnight

Malampuzha dam in Kerala (Image source: IWP Flickr Photos)

Indore is still very much water minus

Need to abandon costly centralised systems of wastewater management and raise awareness about decentralised systems

Water harvesters cleaning up water hyacinth from the rivers in Indore (Image: Rahul Banerjee)

Leaving no one behind!

Will it be possible to ensure equity and justice while balancing climate action goals with economic progress?

Taking everyone along while achieving a balance between economic growth and climate goals is crucial (Image Source: Good Energies)

Ecosystem services of traditional water bodies

Empirical evidence from West Bengal

Households living close to tanks pursue a variety of livelihood activities based on resources available in tanks for their sustenance (Image: Amitabha Gupta, Wikimedia Commons)

Nagpur’s fly ash problem

Study suggests a comprehensive clean-up process to deal with pollution from Nagpur’s thermal power plants

Fly ash discharges into local rivers and streams, says study (Image: R Mohankar, Wikimedia Commons)

The loo loop

Public toilets and choice of work for women

Separation between women and men’s toilets (Image: Rajesh Pamnani; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

India in the grip of floods - yet again!

Floods are becoming the most frequently occurring extreme events leading to high deaths in India.

The floods in Kerala in 2018 (Image: Ranjith Siji, Wikimedia Commons: CC BY-SA 4.0)

Coal dependency and just transition prospects

Study looks at complex and multifaceted social concerns associated with a coal phase-out

Work in progress in the coal mines in eastern India (Image: India Water Portal)

Will flash droughts affect India?

Flash droughts in India pose challenges for water management during the summer monsoon

Flash drought is sometimes also defined as a rapidly developing drought event. (Image: Pushkar RV)

Managing disasters in the hills

Need to enable communities to be the first responders in case of a disaster

It is at the community level that the effects of disasters are felt the most (Image: Baber Nafice)

Government to revoke the three contentious farm laws

Policy matters this fortnight

Three farm laws to be repealed (Image source: IWP Flickr Photos). Image for representation only

First digital flood inventory (IFI) in geospatial format created for India

News this fortnight

First digital flood inventory (IFI) in geospatial format created (Image source: IWP Flickr Photos). Image for representation only

Mangroves - Wetlands or forests?

Mangroves were treated and managed as forests in colonial times, although they are much similar to wetlands. This led to extensive degradation of mangrove ecosystems in India.