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  • Groundwater extraction: NGT gets strict with commercial entities
    NGT bans granting general permissions for groundwater extraction to commercial entities Finding no merit in CGWA’s plea that stringent curbs on groundwater use will have an adverse impact on industrial production, employment opportunities and the economy of some states, the National Green Tribuna...
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  • India-UK team tackles antimicrobial resistance spread in waterways
    An estimated 58,000 babies die in India every year from superbug infections passed on from their mothers, whilst drug-resistant pathogens cause between 28,000 to 38,000 extra deaths in the European Union every year. A research project called AMRflows, which involves experts from Newcastle Universit...
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  • UP tops in providing employment under MGNREGS
    UP emerges as the top state in the country to give employment under MGNREGS Under the rural employment guarantee scheme, the Uttar Pradesh government has engaged 57.13 lakh workers and thus become the top state in the country to give employment under the scheme. Uttar Pradesh is followed by Rajasth...
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  • MGNREGA gets additional Rs. 40,000 crore funds
    Additional Rs 40,000 crore allocated to MGNREGA In a bid to provide work to migrants returning from cities to villages, the Finance Ministry has provided an additional Rs 40,000 crore to the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) for 2020-21. With this, the scheme alloc...
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  • Water levels in major reservoirs maximum in last 13 years: CWC
    Water storage level 76 percent more than last year: CWC According to the Central Water Commission's (CWC) weekly bulletin, as on 6 May, 2020, live water storage in 123 reservoirs in India was 68.04 billion cubic metre (BCM) which is 75.6 percent from the corresponding period of last year. Moreover,...
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  • Query regarding removing the public handpump not in use for more than 10 years
    I am from Telangana. I have a query regarding a handpump which lies in between two plots and the major part of it is in my plot. The hand pump has not been in use for more than 10 years. I want to know the procedure to remove the hand pump for my plot as it is hindering my construction planning. Ple...
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  • Women lead the way in water quality surveillance
    Historically, water is a gendered burden, with women being the primary caregivers responsible for cooking, washing and cleaning chores in the house and in modern times in institutions (teachers, anganwadi and healthcare workers). Women have traditionally been associated with various w...
    Amita Bhaduriposted 6 months 1 week agoread more
  • Tangled bones, children unable to move and lives cut short
    I am in the middle of nowhere, out on a field visit to understand how fluoride, a deadly contaminant in groundwater has been afflicting people in some of the worst affected villages in Nalgonda, Telangana. I am thirsty as hell and would do anything to find a seemingly elusive little glass of water, ...
    Amita Bhaduriposted 6 months 4 weeks agoread more
  • Monitoring guidelines for sand mining released
    Guidelines to monitor illegal sand mining released For the first time, the Environment Ministry has released Enforcement and Monitoring Guidelines for Sand Mining 2020 to monitor and check illegal sand mining in the country. The guidelines include directions to states to carry out river audits, ...
    Swati Bansalposted 7 months 2 weeks agoread more
  • CGWB signs MoU for participatory groundwater management
    MoU signed for groundwater management through community intervention The Central Groundwater Board (CGWB), Department of Water Resources, Western Sydney University, Australia and others have signed an MoU for the project MARVI (Managing Aquifer Recharge and Sustaining Groundwater Use through Villag...
    Swati Bansalposted 9 months 3 weeks agoread more
  • When the sewers get blocked: sanitation labour in urban India
    November 19th is World Toilet Day. India's massive five-year all-hands-on-deck Clean India Mission to construct latrines for all has just ended. The Government reports that 100 million additional toilets have been constructed via this campaign; these are mostly not connected to waterborne sewer sy...
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  • NGT pushes to ban RO purifiers for water with TDS below 500 mg/l
    NGT pushes MoEF to issue notification to ban unnecessary use of RO purifiers The National Green Tribunal has reprimanded the Environment Ministry for delaying a notification to ban RO purifiers where total dissolved solids (TDS) in water are below 500 milligrams per litre. The NGT also warned the ...
    Swati Bansalposted 10 months 6 days agoread more
  • 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...
    Swati Bansalposted 11 months 4 days agoread more
  • 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...
    Swati Bansalposted 11 months 2 weeks agoread more
  • Telangana government, tribals oppose uranium mining in Nallamala forests
    Telangana government, tribals stand against proposed uranium mining in Nallamala forests A few months ago, the environment ministry gave in-principle approval to the Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL) to begin exploration for uranium in the Nallamala forest, which stretches across the stat...
    Swati Bansalposted 12 months 3 days agoread more
  • Amount of rainfall in Medak district, Telangana
    Hello, This is Sanjay, a student undergoing my graduation, I am interested in rainwater harvesting and proper utilization of rainwater as a project. Would you please help me out providing the rainfall details in Medak district of Telengana, so that I can get a brief view and proceed further.
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  • Government geologist for bore point check
    Hi, I have a Agricultural land in Kothapet village, Rangareddy district in Telangana. I dug three bores but I could not find any water. Can you suggest whom I can contact for survey in bore point.
    Anonymous (not verified)posted 1 year 3 weeks agoread more
  • How do farmers perceive soil erosion?
    Regionally and globally, soil erosion is a major contributor to total land degradation. Its impact is more pronounced in rainfed areas and it is a major threat to agriculture in India, with a significant economic cost amounting to about 0.35% of GDP in 2014-15 as per estimates by TERI (2018). Con...
    Amita Bhaduriposted 1 year 1 month agoread more
  • Government launches Jal Shakti Abhiyan to tackle water crisis
    Centre launches Jal Shakti Abhiyan To tackle the water crisis looming the country, the Centre launched the Jal Shakti Abhiyan, a water conservation campaign focussing on 1,592 stressed blocks in 256 districts across the country. The Jal Shakti Abhiyan will focus on five key aspects - water cons...
    Swati Bansalposted 1 year 2 months agoread more
  • High Court takes note of acute water crisis in Chennai
    High Court raps Tamil Nadu government over water crisis in Chennai Taking note of the severe water crisis looming in the state, the Madras High Court has come down strongly on the Tamil Nadu government for not taking adequate steps to battle the crisis. The court has now sought a state-wide compreh...
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Posted Date : Wed, 2020-08-12 08:41
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NGT bans granting general permissions for groundwater extraction to commercial entities

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Posted By : Amita Bhaduri
Posted Date : Fri, 2020-08-07 11:30
Experts are joining forces to investigate the impact that releasing antibiotics from antibiotic manufacturing into India’s waterways has on the spread of potentially fatal drug-resistant infections.

An estimated 58,000 babies die in India every year from superbug infections passed on from their mothers, whilst drug-resistant pathogens cause between 28,000 to 38,000 extra deaths in the European Union every year.

A research project called AMRflows, which involves experts from Newcastle University, has received £1.2 million of UK and Indian funding to explore the role played by India’s rivers in increasing antimicrobial resistance (AMR).

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Posted By : Swati Bansal
Posted Date : Thu, 2020-06-25 07:38
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UP emerges as the top state in the country to give employment under MGNREGS

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Posted By : Swati Bansal
Posted Date : Wed, 2020-05-20 10:55
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Additional Rs 40,000 crore allocated to MGNREGA

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Posted Date : Wed, 2020-05-13 14:39
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Water storage level 76 percent more than last year: CWC

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Posted Date : Mon, 2020-03-16 20:52

I am from Telangana. I have a query regarding a handpump which lies in between two plots and the major part of it is in my plot. The hand pump has not been in use for more than 10 years. I want to know the procedure to remove the hand pump for my plot as it is hindering my construction planning. Please provide sufficient details to me.

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Posted By : Amita Bhaduri
Posted Date : Fri, 2020-03-06 13:45
Why women need to be trained and engaged in monitoring and surveillance of water quality at the community level in rural India?

Historically, water is a gendered burden, with women being the primary caregivers responsible for cooking, washing and cleaning chores in the house and in modern times in institutions (teachers, anganwadi and healthcare workers). Women have traditionally been associated with various water related tasks - be it collecting, fetching, or purifying water.

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Posted By : Amita Bhaduri
Posted Date : Wed, 2020-02-19 11:45
Fluorosis has turned out to be a chronic public health problem, with millions of people at high risk due to lack of clean drinking water.

I am in the middle of nowhere, out on a field visit to understand how fluoride, a deadly contaminant in groundwater has been afflicting people in some of the worst affected villages in Nalgonda, Telangana. I am thirsty as hell and would do anything to find a seemingly elusive little glass of water, but I can’t.

Restless as I am, with my thoughts running wild, I get out of the car and start walking.

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Posted By : Swati Bansal
Posted Date : Wed, 2020-01-29 23:39
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Guidelines to monitor illegal sand mining released

For the first time, the Environment Ministry has released Enforcement and Monitoring Guidelines for Sand Mining 2020 to monitor and check illegal sand mining in the country.

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Posted Date : Wed, 2019-11-27 12:06
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MoU signed for groundwater management through community intervention

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As a part of Project Nirmal, community structures including Slum Sanitation Committees (SSCs) and Ward Sanitation Committees (WSCs) were constituted at the slum and ward level (Image: SCI-FI, CPR)
Monday, 14 September 2020 15:58
Sanitation empowered her
Satyagrah by the river (Image source: Umesh K Ray)
Saturday, 12 September 2020 8:42
Satyagrah by the river calls for action against erosion
Women trudged long distances daily to fetch water for their basic household needs in Rupail (Image: People's Science Institute)
Friday, 11 September 2020 19:48
Uttarakhand: Reaching the unreached
Kolahoi glacier in Kashmir (Image Source: Irfanaru via Wikimedia Commons)
Friday, 11 September 2020 14:27
The fast disappearing glaciers of Kashmir