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Women, neglected stakeholders in water management (Photocredit: Makarand Purohit for India Water Portal)

Women’s involvement in participatory water institutions in Eastern India

A study finds that women’s participation in water management institutions continues to be low in India in spite of the important role that they play in agriculture and irrigation.

Organised under WaterAid India’s partnership with GAP, water testing workshop (2019) held in Indore district aimed at training women and youth to lead the entire process of community water management – from planning to supply, operations and maintenance and to educate communities on water-quality issues. (Image: WaterAid India/Ashima Narain)

Women lead the way in water quality surveillance

Why women need to be trained and engaged in monitoring and surveillance of water quality at the community level in rural India?

Is our tap water really safe? (Image Source: IWP Flickr Photos)

Bringing back the trust: Getting our belief back in public water supply systems

While the government has passed a draft notification to bar use of Reverse Osmosis (RO) purifiers in cities, what does evidence on the ground tell us?

The Mandovi river disputed between Karnataka and Goa (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)

Mahadayi river water dispute receives final award

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Local women and men engaged in digging trenches (Source: IWP Flickr photos). Pic for representation only

UP's Banda exemplifies water conservation efforts

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A latrine emptier is lifted out of a pit in Bangalore, India (Image: WaterAid/CS Sharada Prasad)

The miserable plight of sanitation workers

A report highlights the dangers for the millions of people who clean toilets, sewers and septic tanks the world over and calls for urgent action.

Women workers suffer the most (Image Source: Azhar Feder, Wikimedia Commons-CC-BY-SA-3.0)

Suffering in silence: Migrant cane cutters of Maharashtra

Overworked, poorly paid and deprived of any rights, migrant cane cutters, especially women are most vulnerable and continue to suffer from a number of health and security risks.

A still from the movie Parasite (Image: Christiano Betta, Flickr Commons: CC BY 2.0)

Parasite – the film and India’s disaster management

How different populations face different levels of risk and vulnerability during disasters?

Lack of sufficient quality water, poor pipe connectivity and frequent breakdown of existing pipelines are common in the area (Image: Jayasree Vaidyanathan)

Unravelling Kuttanad’s drinking water paradox

Floods such as in 2018 could take the situation downhill causing severe drinking water crisis.

The river Karamana in Thiruvanathapuram, Kerala (Image Source: India Water Portal)

Revival of non-monsoon flows in rivers

Non monsoon flows of rivers in India are showing a declining trend. What can be done to deal with the situation?

A river in Assam (Source: IWP Flickr photos)

Sixty river stretches found polluted in the northeast: CPCB

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Atal Bhujal Yojana aims to arrest the country's depleting groundwater levels (Source: IWP Flicke photos)

USD 450 million loan from the World Bank for Atal Bhujal Yojana

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Once selected for the role, the women entrepreneurs were trained to run the community filtration plant and overlook all operations ranging from the management of customers to the plant finances. (Image: India Water Portal)

Community water purification system in a Delhi urban slum

Women swipe clean drinking water through an automated dispensing unit at the Lalbagh slum.

Drinking water quality and health (Image Source: Wikimedia Commons)

Indian Standard for Drinking Water as per BIS specifications (IS 10500-2012) (Second Revision)

This presentation gives details of the permissible and desirable limits of various parameters in drinking water as per the BIS standard specifications for potable water.

INREM Foundation has helped develop protocols on designing proactive action on safe water and nutrition to help mitigate fluorosis (Image: Vikas Ratanjee)

Tangled bones, children unable to move and lives cut short

Fluorosis has turned out to be a chronic public health problem, with millions of people at high risk due to lack of clean drinking water.

The need for decentralised governance to deal with the current groundwater crisis (Image Source: ACWADAM)

Decentralised groundwater governance to deal with the groundwater crisis

Decentralised groundwater governance frameworks that integrate democratic institutional mechanisms are needed to deal with the current groundwater crisis in India.

AKRSP has promoted rainwater harvesting to address the issue of scarce potable water at Mangrol. By encouraging households to collect rainwater using pipes on their roofs which then drain into an underground tank they have been able to promote water security. (Image: Aga Khan Foundation Flickr)

Overcoming heavy odds to emerge as a WATSAN model

How women came together in a Junagadh village to tackle drinking and domestic water shortage effectively.

Woman farmer sifting grain (Image: Ray Witlin/World Bank CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Decoding budget 2020

Is the budget a bummer? Experts speak at a panel discussion organised by CBGA.

The Gangetic dolphin (Image Source: Arati Kumar Rao)

Waterways spell disaster for Gangetic dolphins

A study shows that noise pollution due to industrial transportation and recreational waterways over the Ganga can spell doom for dolphins by affecting their feeding habits and social behaviours.