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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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  • Water Talk Series at TISS, Mumbai on 7th September 2019
    Team Malhar, students of Water Policy and Governance (WPG) and alumni of Tata Institute of Social Science, Mumbai in partnership with RRA Network proudly present the third annual session of "WATER TALK SERIES" on 7th September, 2019 at TISS, Mumbai The Water Talk Series was started in 2017 with t...
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  • India witnesses second driest pre-monsoon spell in 65 years
    India's water situation alarming As per the Central Water Commission (CWC), the water storage available in 91 major reservoirs of the country towards the end of May was 31.65 billion cubic meters, which is 20 percent of the total storage capacity of these reservoirs. The data by the India Meteorolo...
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  • Do we need BMC permission for rainwater harvesting ringwell
    Hello, We are a housing society in Mumbai. We have obtained permission for borewell and drilled the borewell and have dug the ringwell pit around the borewell. So this will be for borewell recharge. We have dug another ringwell, this will be for groundwater recharge. We want to know if any permissi...
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  • Anti-drought works unsatisfactory: Govt
    Nearly 790,000 anti-drought works under MGNREGA incomplete or abandoned According to the data collated by the Ministry of Rural Development, a total of 790,000 anti-drought works, worth Rs 417 crore, under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGA) are either incomplete...
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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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  • Cyclone Fani ravages Odisha's ecological hotspots
    Odisha's ecological hotspots severely affected by cyclone Cyclone Fani that battered the state on May 3 has left two of Odisha's ecological hotspots-- Lake Chilka and Balukhand-Konark wildlife sanctuary--in a crisis. The Chilika lake, which had two mouths earlier, has two more now due to wave energ...
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  • Cyclone Fani hits Odisha, 35 dead
    Cyclone Fani, strongest to hit India in 20 years, causes widespread destruction in Odisha Cyclone Fani, that made its landfall in Odisha on May 4, has caused widespread destruction in the coastal parts of the state, with Puri being the worst hit. The death toll has risen to 35 in the state and seve...
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  • Cyclone Gaja leaves 80,000 stranded, 40 dead
    Cyclone Gaja creates havoc in Tamil Nadu Cyclone Gaja struck the Cauvery delta region in Tamil Nadu at 120 kmph on November 15. The cyclone has caused 40 deaths and left 80,000 people stranded at relief camps. Six coastal districts and three in the hinterland besides Karaikal in Puducherry hav...
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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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  • Centre calls Kerala floods a 'calamity of severe nature'
    Kerala floods: Death toll rises to 373 The floods in Kerala have taken away nearly 400 lives and have displaced around 1.2 million people. The Centre has classified the flood fury as a calamity of severe nature even though the state had pitched it as a national disaster. Reviewing the flo...
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  • IFAT India 2018 - India's Leading Trade Fair for Water, Sewage, Solid Waste and Recycling,October 15 -17, 2018.
    On the completion of five successful consecutive editions of IFAT India, IFAT India has now established itself as India's leading trade fair for Water, Sewage, Solid Waste and Recycling. This show will provide opportunities to the attendees to display their products, technologies and new innovations...
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  • Vacancy for Practice Area Knowledge Manager for Water & Sanitation (WASH) at Dalberg, India
    About Dalberg Dalberg is a global platform dedicated to social impact and global development. We believe that most important problems facing the world are too complex to be solved through any one discipline and that multidisciplinary problem solving is truly essential to progress. We are committed ...
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  • Save Thane Creek
    Thane Creek is an inlet along the shoreline of the Arabian Sea that isolates the city of Mumbai from the Indian mainland. It is Asia's largest creek with a length of 26 km. The creek is lined up with mangroves on both sides and plays host to a lot of species ranging from iconic flamingos to tiny cra...
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  • Mumbai drowns in flood water
    Destruction of river and mangroves blamed for Mumbai floods On August 29, Mumbai received 298 mm of rain within a nine-hour period which paralysed the city and caused five deaths. The inability to tackle the flood waters has been attributed to the authorities' failure in improving the city's draina...
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  • Ganapati idol immersion continues despite ban
    Despite ban, immersion of Ganpati idols made of PoP continue in Bengaluru lakes According to data released by the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike, a total of 2,08,585 idols were immersed in Bengaluru lakes this year on the first day of the Ganesh festival. Despite the Karnataka State Pollution C...
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  • Flood situation improves in Bihar and West Bengal
    Bihar floods: Fear of epidemic looms large The recent flood in the state have taken 200 lives and affected nearly 1.5 crore people across 18 Bihar districts. Although the flood water has started receding, the fear of an epidemic has increased. To tackle the situation, medical facilities are being p...
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  • Loan waiver alone cannot solve farmers' woes: Experts
    Need to tackle core issues to end farm crisis: Experts According to farm sector experts, the Rs 34,000-crore farm loan waiver in Maharashtra alone will not help improve the situation of farmers in the state as they will continue to suffer from other important issues such as high input costs, l...
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  • Karnataka's drought solution: Dig 1 km deep borewells
    Ambitious solution to curb Karnataka's drought In a bid to tackle the water woes of the state, the Minister for Rural Development and Panchayat Raj HK Patil has announced a plan to drill 1 km deep borewells in 10 water scarce areas. The government is going to involve the private company, Water...
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  • Water in TN's reservoirs dips
    Just seven to eight percent water left in TN’s reservoirs The live storage of water in the major reservoirs in Tamil Nadu has reduced to just seven to eight percent of the overall capacity. However, the state has been saved from the heat wave, unlike the northern states. The data from the Ce...
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Posted Date : Tue, 2019-09-24 13:08
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Posted Date : Wed, 2019-09-04 14:30

Team Malhar, students of Water Policy and Governance (WPG) and alumni of Tata Institute of Social Science, Mumbai in partnership with RRA Network proudly present the third annual session of "WATER TALK SERIES" on 7th September, 2019 at TISS, Mumbai

September 7, 2019 9:30AM - September 7, 2019 5:30PM
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Posted Date : Tue, 2019-06-04 21:22
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Posted Date : Sat, 2019-06-01 07:42

Hello,

We are a housing society in Mumbai. We have obtained permission for borewell and drilled the borewell and have dug the ringwell pit around the borewell. So this will be for borewell recharge. We have dug another ringwell, this will be for groundwater recharge. We want to know if any permission from BMC is required for ringwell. Since, ringwells are ready, can we apply to BMC for confirmation or there is no need? Can BMC take any steps against managing committee for these ringwells? Please guide, our intention is good but we don't want hassles.

Thanks Rajesh

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Posted Date : Wed, 2019-05-29 11:04
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Nearly 790,000 anti-drought works under MGNREGA incomplete or abandoned

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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, 2019-05-15 18:12
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Odisha's ecological hotspots severely affected by cyclone

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Posted Date : Tue, 2019-05-07 15:36
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Cyclone Fani, strongest to hit India in 20 years, causes widespread destruction in Odisha

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Posted Date : Sun, 2018-11-18 18:55
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Cyclone Gaja creates havoc in Tamil Nadu

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Posted Date : Wed, 2018-09-19 13:47
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Polluted river stretches increases to 351, as against 302 in 2015

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From left to right - Siddharth Krishnan (ATREE), David Groenfeldt (Water Culture Institute), Sara Ahmed (University of Cambridge), Veena Srinivasan (ATREE), KJ Joy (SOPPECOM)
Thursday, 26 September 2019 15:57
Applying ethics to water management, to ensure equity in access to all
Bandhara (in Nashik, Maharashtra), a low masonry weir of 1.2 to 4.5 m height, which is constructed across a small stream for diverting the water into a small main canal taking off from its upstream side (Image: Shailendra Yashwant, Oxfam India)
Thursday, 26 September 2019 12:15
Water wisdom in times of a climate crisis
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Wednesday, 25 September 2019 19:21
Rising sea temperatures pose a threat to coral reefs
India's demand for water will exceed supply by a factor of two by 2030, as per a NITI Aayog report (Image: Vinoth Chandar, Flickr Commons (CC BY 2.0))
Wednesday, 25 September 2019 14:50
India’s deepening water crisis