Rajasthan
CGWB signs MoU for participatory groundwater management
posted 1 year 1 month agoMoU signed for groundwater management through community intervention

Manual scavenging persists in India due to weak enforcement of laws
posted 1 year 2 months agoManual scavenging still prevails in India thanks to weak laws, says study

Cyclone Bulbul devastates West Bengal and Odisha
posted 1 year 2 months agoCyclone Bulbul causes devastation in West Bengal and Odisha

Is it worth the salt?
posted 3 years 1 month agoThe fields are silvery white with raw salt crusts in the vicinity of Nawa, a small town on the northwestern banks of Sambhar lake, India’s largest inland lake. Nawa lies about 90 kilometres east of Jaipur. Also an extensive saline wetland and a Ramsar site, the blinding white salt flats stretch as far as one can see.

Wild species get extinct in Keoladeo
posted 3 years 5 months agoOver a span of five decades, eight mammal species have become locally extinct in Keoladeo National Park in Bharatpur, a study has revealed.

Wetlands in deep water
posted 3 years 11 months agoFebruary 2 is observed as the World Wetlands Day. The day marks the date of adoption of the Convention on Wetlands in the Iranian city of Ramsar in 1971. This year, the theme of the World Wetlands Day is Wetlands for Disaster Risk Reduction.

NGT cancels illegal salt pans in Sambhar Lake
posted 4 years 1 month agoGood news for Sambhar Salt Lake

Water, water, everywhere
posted 4 years 4 months agoThe city of Udaipur is all about its lakes. If Pichola gets the maximum tourist footfall, the scenic beauty of Fateh Sagar invites solitude lovers. The Udai Sagar lake in the east, which remained the first line of defence for the city, now meets the industrial need for water.

Udaipur's water threatened by India's largest reserve of phosphate
posted 5 years 6 months agoHuddled in the Aravali range in the southern part of Rajasthan about 26 km from Udaipur, is the largest reserve of phosphate in India.
