Latest

Latest

Reimagining India's disaster response for children

When floods wash away learning: Why India’s disaster planning must protect children

17 Sep 2026

9 min read

The women stand on the check dam they built while restoring the Baba Talaab. (Image: Parmarth Samaj Sevi Sansthan)

Rainwater Harvesting

How Bundelkhand’s women fought drought with iron pans and determination in Madhya Pradesh

15 Sep 2026

5 min read

Children splashing water, Adilabad, Telangana

Why fighting extreme heat requires more than heat action plans

18 Sep 2026

8 min read

Irrigation and rainfed crops in India. Image Source: Seratobikiba via Wikimedia Commons.

How irrigated farms generate rainfall for nearby rainfed crops across India

Aarti Kelkar Khambete

18 Sep 2026

6 min read

The statue of the Manipuri Polo God Marjing overseeing the Heingang Pat

Polo origins to shrinking wetlands: Why habitat restoration is the key to Manipuri pony survival

M Biswanath Sinha

14 Sep 2026

7 min read

Deepor Beel, a Ramsar-listed wetland on the southwestern edge of Guwahati, remains an important ecological landscape amid rapid urbanisation. (Image: Hirakjyoti Bayan/ Wikimedia Commons/ CCBY-SA 4.0)

Rivers and Lakes

Deepor Beel’s shrinking silence: Can Assam balance development and ecological survival?

Anwesha Mahanta

13 Sep 2026

6 min read

The construction of dams, tunnels and roads leaves lasting footprints on mountain landscapes already vulnerable to landslides and ecological change. (Image: Rachit Tiwari)

Fading Kuhls and Gharats: The human cost of hydropower on Himachal Pradesh’s altered rivers

07 Sep 2026

6 min read

Hydropower expansion in Northeast India is compounding flash floods, dry spells, and rural crises instead of buffering riverine communities against climate change. (Image: Rawpixel)

When clean energy meets climate risk: The hydropower paradox along the Brahmaputra

07 Sep 2026

5 min read

Continuous contour trenches are dug along slopes and above the fields to slow down runoff and recharge groundwater (Image: WOTR)

Watershed restoration offers new hope for Maharashtra’s drying rivers and farms

06 Sep 2026

7 min read

The Pashan lake in Pune. Image Source: Nikhil12sutar via Wikimedia Commons

From Himalayas to Deccan: How droughts and glacial melt reshape India's water reservoirs

Aarti Kelkar Khambete

05 Sep 2026

8 min read

Kalyani at Bhoganandishwara temple, Nandi hills, Bengaluru (Image: FES)

Rainwater Harvesting

A call for the Kalyani: How digital mapping is restoring Karnataka’s historic stepwells

Shilpi Roy Varghese

05 Sep 2026

5 min read

Flooding of a Himalayan river in Kathmandu, Nepal. Image Source: Thapaliyashreeram via Wikimedia Commons.

Nepal flood: Assessing cross-border resilience and risks along shared Himalayan river

Aarti Kelkar Khambete

30 Aug 2026

7 min read

Read More

India Water Portal

www.indiawaterportal.org