Sambhar

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

News this week Swati Bansal posted 1 year ago

UN emphasises the need for safe faecal disposal this WTD2020

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 2 years ago

MoU signed for groundwater management through community intervention

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 2 years ago

Manual scavenging still prevails in India thanks to weak laws, says study

Cyclone Bulbul devastates West Bengal and Odisha

News this week Swati Bansal posted 2 years ago

Cyclone Bulbul causes devastation in West Bengal and Odisha

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 3 years 11 months ago

The 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.