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  • Pune groundwater extraction doubles in last decade; Uranium found in Telengana groundwater; Lower Subansiri project gets a boost
    Study finds Pune's groundwater extraction doubles in 9 years A survey conducted by the Advanced Center for Water Resources Development and Management (ACWADAM) with assistance from the Centre for Environment Education (CEE) and Mission Groundwater, reveals that groundwater extraction in Pune has do...
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  • Centre all set to sustain country's ODF status
    National rural sanitation strategy launched to sustain open defecation-free (ODF) status  The Jal Shakti Ministry has come up with a 10-year national rural sanitation strategy to sustain India’s 100 percent Open Defecation Free (ODF) status claimed by the Centre. The focus of the strategy is...
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  • Manual scavenging is inhumane: SC
    Supreme Court question authorities on why manual scavenging still prevails Taking note of four to five deaths every month due to manual scavenging, the Supreme Court came down heavily on the government for failing to provide protective gear to people engaged in manual scavenging and cleaning of sew...
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  • Beyond the death toll: The everyday violence of Assam’s floods
    Floods are an annual phenomenon in Assam. They are as integral to the state as the Brahmaputra River is, and each monsoon, we are reminded that Assam exists (or is drowning). As I write this piece, Assam is slowly recovering from the first wave of flood this monsoon. For several weeks, the entire st...
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  • Spending a summer building scalable water access in rural India
    This summer I had the incredible opportunity, to work with the Tata Trusts and their Tata Water Mission (TWM) initiative, exploring avenues to provide scalable water access to stakeholders in rural communities. TWM is one of the Trusts’ flagship initiatives in India, at the forefront of ensuring...
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  • Small water treatment system for household water purification
    Myself Arunodoy Sarmah. I am working as officer with a psu bank in Assam. I would like to enquire about a small water treatment plant at my home in Guwahati. During winter months we face water shortage issues here in Shantipur hillside area in Guwahati even though we are hardly 5 km from Brahmaputra...
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  • Floods grip Assam and Bihar
    Bihar and northeast India reel under floods As the water level of the Brahmaputra River rose above the danger level across Assam, 30 of the 33 districts in the state were deluged by floods, affecting nearly 43 lakh people and claiming 15 lives. In Bihar, incessant rains in neighbouring Nepal ca...
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  • Pre-monsoon rainfall deficient: IMD
    India witnesses 22 percent deficient pre-monsoon rainfall this year: IMD The India Meteorological Department (IMD) data has recorded 75.9 millimetres of rainfall from March 1 to May 15 which is 22 percent deficient from the normal rainfall. Moreover, out of the four meteorological divisions of the ...
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  • NGT adamant on committees to manage biodiversity
    NGT seeks report on constitution of Biodiversity Management Committees The National Green Tribunal has ordered the environment ministry to submit a report on the constitution of Biodiversity Management Committees (BMC) at the local level in every state within three months. Taking note of blatant no...
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  • Groundwater depletes in north and east India
    India is the largest user of groundwater in the world. It uses an estimated 230 km3 of groundwater per year, which is over a quarter of the global total. About 85 percent of rural drinking water needs, 65 percent of irrigation needs and 50 percent of urban drinking water and industrial needs are ful...
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  • UN Environment Assembly adopts India's two resolutions
    UN Environment Assembly adopts resolutions on single-use plastics, nitorgen management piloted by India The environment ministry has informed that at the fourth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA), two resolutions piloted by India on single-use plastics and sustainab...
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  • Budget 2019 allocates income support package for farmers
    Identify farmers for income support scheme: NITI Aayog to states NITI Aayog has ordered all states to identify small and marginal farmers who will receive Rs 2,000 as the first instalment by March-end under the Rs 75,000-crore income support package announced in the budget. Taking note of farmers' ...
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  • Artificial lake forms in Brahmaputra
    Artificial lake in Brahmaputra in China, flood threat in Arunachal Pradesh and Assam wanes On October 18, a landslide in China created an artificial lake on the Tsangpo river, the headwater of India's Brahmaputra river. Following the formation of the lake, a high alert was issued in Arunachal ...
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  • India has 45 critically polluted river stretches: CPCB
    Polluted river stretches increases to 351, as against 302 in 2015 According to a recent assessment by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), there are 351 polluted river stretches in the country  with 45 of them being critically polluted. Although a greater focus is given to the Ganga riv...
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  • Assam continues to battle fluorosis
    Farhanuddin was just five years old when a pain in his knee began bothering him. It was 2013. Slowly, his legs began to change shape. They got so badly deformed that it began to affect his everyday life. He was gloomy and tired most times and had trouble walking. His parents thought that lengra bhoo...
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  • Assam's river atlas to tackle floods, deforestation
    Assam prepares river atlas to tackle floods, erosion, deforestation The Assam government is preparing a river atlas with the aid of the North Eastern Space Application Centre (NESAC) that would serve as a comprehensive database of all major and minor rivers of the state. Besides serving as a databa...
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  • Arunachal becomes open defecation free
    Arunachal achieves the open defecation free status Following Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh becomes the second state in the Northeast to be declared open defecation free. The state has achieved the open defecation free target one year and 10 months ahead of the national target, which is October 2, 2019....
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  • NCR water bodies disappearing due to urbanisation: Study
    Study says 40 percent of NCR's water bodies lost to urbanisation in 42 years As per a study conducted by IIT Delhi, nearly 40 percent of water bodies in the national capital region (NCR) has disappeared between 1972 and 2014 due to rapid urbanisation. The study also revealed that due...
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  • Assam's fluorosis problem: When nature serves poison
    Sadhani Kalita is only 35 years old but looks like she could be 50 years or older. She has lost her teeth and both her legs are misshapen with the ankles twisted. A resident of Tapatjuri village in Assam's Hojai district, Sadhani is one of the many people in the region who are living with dental and...
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  • Floods take a heavy toll on Assam farmlands
    Assam bears huge agricultural loss from floods According to the state agriculture minister, the three waves of floods this year have inundated 3.82 lakh hectares of agricultural land and destroyed crops in 2.79 lakh hectares of farmland. Following the loss, the state has prepared a plan to distribu...
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Posted Date : Wed, 2019-10-16 14:13
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Posted Date : Mon, 2019-08-19 12:53
Mitul Baruah from Ashoka University narrates personal experiences of people affected by floods in Majuli, Assam.

Floods are an annual phenomenon in Assam. They are as integral to the state as the Brahmaputra River is, and each monsoon, we are reminded that Assam exists (or is drowning). As I write this piece, Assam is slowly recovering from the first wave of flood this monsoon.

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Posted Date : Thu, 2019-07-25 16:08
A young college graduate shares his experience working with Tata Trusts in Assam on water issues.

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Posted Date : Thu, 2019-07-18 08:49

Myself Arunodoy Sarmah. I am working as officer with a psu bank in Assam. I would like to enquire about a small water treatment plant at my home in Guwahati. During winter months we face water shortage issues here in Shantipur hillside area in Guwahati even though we are hardly 5 km from Brahmaputra river. We have 8 families at rented accommodation here and daily water consumption is near about 4000 to 5000 liters. Please guide me through your valuable suggestions.

My mail id arunodoy.sarmah@gmail.com

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Posted Date : Wed, 2019-07-17 01:54
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Bihar and northeast India reel under floods

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Posted Date : Wed, 2019-05-22 11:14
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India witnesses 22 percent deficient pre-monsoon rainfall this year: IMD

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Posted Date : Wed, 2019-04-24 10:46
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NGT seeks report on constitution of Biodiversity Management Committees

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Posted Date : Tue, 2019-04-23 19:12
Study shows a rapid decline in usable groundwater between 2005 and 2013 leading to the risk of severe food crisis and drinking water scarcity for millions of people.

India is the largest user of groundwater in the world. It uses an estimated 230 km3 of groundwater per year, which is over a quarter of the global total. About 85 percent of rural drinking water needs, 65 percent of irrigation needs and 50 percent of urban drinking water and industrial needs are fulfilled with groundwater.

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