Rivers and Lakes Conservation in India - India Water Portal

Rivers and Lakes

The mighty Ganga, India’s lifeline

Ganga River Basin shows growing drought stress amid changing monsoon

Aarti Kelkar Khambete

19 Dec 2025

6 min read

Farooq Ahmad Dar sits in his boat on Anchar Lake, where he once fished for his family. The lake's pollution has now taken away his livelihood.

How toxic landfill waste is affecting livelihoods around Kashmir’s Anchar lake

17 Dec 2025

9 min read

Hokersar wetland in Kashmir

Rivers and Lakes

Urban pressure is changing soil health in Kashmir’s wetlands

Aarti Kelkar Khambete

17 Dec 2025

8 min read

Farming on the riverbanks of Betwa River

Where sand shifts and rivers flow, life adapts across India’s changing lands

08 Nov 2025

7 min read

The DDA cleared 20 acres of land from encroachment in Mayur Vihar Yamuna Khadar in the month of May this year. Source: Dainik Jagran

Who owns the Yamuna floodplain: Migrant farmers, landlords, or the DDA?

31 Oct 2025

11 min read

Prayagraj's Triveni Sangam (Image: Juggadery, Wikimedia Commons)

Ganga in crisis: Pollution and health risks rise in Prayagraj’s sacred rivers

16 Oct 2025

6 min read

Groundwater contamination in mined areas

Tainted waters: Uranium mining and radiological risks in Jadugoda of Jharkhand

Aarti Kelkar Khambete

11 Oct 2025

5 min read

The land that remained unsubmerged after the dam was built has now transformed into an island, becoming a key tourist attraction of Dumboor Lake.

Dumboor lake: When fields sank and farmers became fishers in Tripura

10 Oct 2025

8 min read

Dr Priyanka Jamwal and her colleagues at the lake

Rivers and Lakes

Lake Revive: Nature-based solutions tool to restore and sustain urban lakes

Aarti Kelkar Khambete

30 Sep 2025

6 min read

Urgent action for sustainable water use in India's fertile Doab region

Rivers and Lakes

Blue, green, grey: The water footprint puzzle in India’s Ganga-Yamuna Doab

30 Sep 2025

5 min read

Transforming barren earth into a forest in Pitchandikulam at Auroville. (Image: auroville.org)

The forest that came back: How Pitchandikulam revived land, water, and community

25 Sep 2025

8 min read

Fishermen of Kabartal taking tourists around in the remaining waters of the lake.

Rivers and Lakes

Who has the right to Kabartal? Bihar’s Kanwar lake is shrinking under caste-based influence

22 Sep 2025

7 min read

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