Sambhar

World Toilet Day 2020: Safe fecal disposal key to sustainable sanitation

News this week Swati Bansal posted 2 weeks 2 days ago

Fecal sludge management key to safe sanitation (Source: CS Sharada Prasad)

CGWB signs MoU for participatory groundwater management

Policy matters this week Swati Bansal posted 1 year ago

An irrigation well at Randullabad, Maharashtra (Source: India Water Portal on Flickr)

Manual scavenging persists in India due to weak enforcement of laws

News this week Swati Bansal posted 1 year ago

Cyclone Bulbul devastates West Bengal and Odisha

News this week Swati Bansal posted 1 year ago

A cyclonic storm that hit India in 2016. (Source: IWP Flickr photos)

Is it worth the salt?

Unregulated salt production near Sambhar lake is not just causing health problems among salt workers, it is also depleting groundwater and ruining the ecosystem of the wetland. Amita Bhaduri posted 2 years 11 months ago

Ramachander Singh, a salt worker who has been raking salt for decades now at this salt pan or kyari dotting the lake bed of Sambhar, Rajasthan.

NGT cancels illegal salt pans in Sambhar Lake

Policy matters this week Swati Bansal posted 3 years 11 months ago

Sambhar Lake, India's largest salt lake. (Source: IWP's Flickr photos)

Environmentalists wary of Modi's green agenda

News this week ravleen posted 6 years 6 months ago

Launch of Narmada-Kshipra interlink (The Hindu)

After Phailin, Cyclone Helen hits Andhra Pradesh coast

News this week: Cyclone Helen devastates Andhra coast, built up area in the capital replaces green spaces and packaged water unit to come up near Sambhar lake. ravleen posted 7 years ago