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The pink guests of Sewri wetland, Maharashtra (Source: IWP Flickr photos)
Mumbai lost 71 percent of wetlands in last four decades: Report
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Women filling water from a tap (Source: IWP Flickr photos)
Jal Jeevan Mission receives Rs 11,500 crore allocation in Budget 2020-21
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Plantation in Gomala (Image: Foundation for Ecological Security)
Managing commons: Need and challenges
How can technology, knowledge and capacity creation help in management of commons?
Water filter use, safety or luxury? (Image Source: Wikimedia Commons)
Banning RO purifier use when water conforms to BIS norms - Comments invited
RO purifiers can lead to huge wastage of water. A draft notification by the Environment Ministry seeks user’s views on banning RO purifiers in areas where water conforms to BIS norms.
An irrigation well at Randullabad, Maharashtra. (Image source: India Water Portal on Flickr)
Perils, politics and prospects of groundwater in India
How can India change the game on groundwater management to deal with its overexploited aquifers?
The budget allocation suggests that the predominant focus of the Ministry of Jal Shakti continues to be on water resources development rather than water resources governance or management (Image: Brian Gratwicke, Flickr Commons, CC BY 2.0)
What's there for water in the budget kitty?
Budget fails to allocate enough to turn the rhetoric of tap water to each household into reality.
Women stand to be highly vulnerable in most cases to the changes in the climate and its extremes. (Image: Bo Nielson, Flickr Commons, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Mountain women bear the brunt of climate change
There is a need to enable a conducive action oriented environment to address entrenched gendered vulnerabilities.
Groundwater contamination, a serious concern (Image Source: India Water Portal)
Micropollutants in groundwater, a grave concern
A study finds that a number of locations in the country have high concentrations of micropollutants in groundwater posing a risk to health and environment.
A wetland in Punjab (Source: IWP Flickr photos)
Ramsar tag granted to ten more wetlands
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Illegal sand mining continues in the country unabated (Source: IWP Flickr photos)
Monitoring guidelines for sand mining released
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Tripura had the highest rate of growth of rubber plantation during the first decade of the millennium as compared to any other state (Image: Flickr Commons)
Rubber monoculture: Death knell for agrobiodiversity
A study looks at the subjective well-being of an indigenous community of Tripura amidst the transition from shifting cultivation to monoculture of natural rubber.
The people living in the Mahanadi delta are forced to cope with frequent disasters, but recent progress in warnings, evacuation and shelters seems to have reduced losses. Urban areas in the delta are expanding and there is rural to urban migration which can be expected to continue. These urban areas will have important implications for the future of the delta. (Image: Helmer, Flickr Commons)
Climatic shocks wreak havoc on the Mahanadi delta
Much of the Mahanadi's deltaic coast is experiencing varying degree of erosion, a situation which is expected to worsen by 2050.
A view of the Nilgiris (Image credits: Golkul Halan)
Neeru and the Nilgiris
Conserving springs, small hill wetlands and their catchment in the Nilgiris.
The Gangetic Dolphin (Source: Arati Kumar Rao)
Increased river traffic threatens Gangetic dolphins
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Cauvery river at Hogenakal, Karnataka (Source: IWP Flickr Photos via Claire Arni and Oriole Henri)
Cauvery riverfront development plan gets an approval
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Organic food (Image: P L Tandon, Flickr Commons, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
India’s food systems in transition
A recent book looks at solutions to the various obstacles that impede India’s various food sub-systems.
Heat-exposed work has produced about half of India’s GDP, and employs about 75 percent of the labor force. There will be a need to shift working hours for outdoor workers and undertake heat management efforts (Image: Ian D Keating, Flickr Commons, CC BY 2.0)
A climate change wake-up call
Climate change can lead to large-scale economic knock-on effects, says a McKinsey Global Institute report.
Groundwater depletion, a growing challenge (Image Source: India Water Portal)
The Karnataka State Water Policy 2019
The Karnataka Jnana Aayoga (KJA) set up a Task Group to draft a new water policy for Karnataka in December 2017 and the report is now in public domain. What are the suggestions that the report makes?
Chir pine trees felled by forest fires in Uttarakhand, 2016 (Image: Ramwik, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0)
Can ruin of quality forests be made up by plantations?
There is a gain in forest cover outside forest land as per the 'State of forest report 2019'. But, can reforestation replace natural forests and its essential ecosystem?
Water-related crime doubles in India (Image Source: Sourabh Phadke)
Water-related crime doubles in India: Report
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