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Kolkata's ponds on shaky ground
posted 4 years 10 months agoUrban water bodies have an important role in the urban ecology. It is not just a source or water collected somewhere but is an integral part of life--a haven for different types of trees, insects, birds and small animals.

The Dying Springs of Chirimiri'
posted 5 years agoChirimiri Coalfield is a part of Central India Coalfields, located in Koriya district, Chhattisgarh.

Bundelkhand women forge friendships for water
posted 5 years 1 month agoSirkoo, a 39 year old woman in Bundelkhand, Uttar Pradesh, walked 8 km every day to fetch water. As a woman, it was obviously her responsibility to ensure the household's water availability. This put an additional stress on her already depleted health as well as time--until she decided to tackle the issue head on.

Water for Profit: Experiences from America and India
posted 5 years 1 month agoIn January 2016, the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) Employees Union and residents of Nagpur yet again protested the privatisation of water services in the city.

Echoes of Bhakra
posted 5 years 2 months agoBhakra dam was the first hydropower project of independent India. Though it brought electricity and water to vast areas, the people displaced in the Bilaspur area of Himachal Pradesh remain dissatisfied. Many of them were not adequately compensated, and began living and farming in the adjoining forests. They were allowed to stay put--unofficially--by the administration.

Lessons on ecology from the Apatani tribe in Ziro Valley
posted 5 years 3 months agoZiro Valley, which figures in the tentative list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites as a unique cultural landscape, sits at a height of 5600 feet in Arunachal Pradesh. It is inhabited by the Apatani tribe who are completely confined to the valley.

Right information and collective strength of people triumph!
posted 5 years 3 months ago"More than eight villagers in Padapadar have died due to water-borne diseases such as typhoid, diarrhoea, jaundice, etc.

The Last Builder of Naulas in Chatola, Nainital
posted 5 years 3 months agoNo temple is as venerated in Uttarakhand as the little unassuming naulas. These small hut-like structures dot the mountains and hold within them a great treasure--water. Usually made of stone masonry with pyramid-like slate roofs, every naula respresents within it a residing spirit which can range from a simple stone piece to an ornately carved statue.

Webinar: Asian Water Towers
posted 5 years 4 months agoSpeaker: Arthur Lutz (FutureWater & Utrecht University)
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Is it possible to build resilience to climate change?
posted 5 years 5 months agoGorakhpur of Eastern UP is not new to floods. Her people have understood and adapted to the flow and ebb of the waters that have been a part of their lives for long. People here have learned to live with the flood in tune with nature’s wayward ways. Though nature continues to play truant, recent years have seen an increasingy abrupt, uncertain and accelerated face of these disasters.
