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January 4, 2021

Should we bet more on historians than engineers to sort flooding?

How the historian's method is invaluable in developing an understanding of floods.

Need to consider the perspective of the historians who see floods as a naturally occurring event. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)

December 26, 2019

Centre holds green signal to Kalasa-Banduri project

Policy matters this week

The Mandovi river disputed between Karnataka and Goa (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)

December 19, 2019

Parliamentary committee expresses disappointment over slow pace of Namami Gange

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The Ganga at Varanasi (Source: India Water Portal Flickr Photos)

December 11, 2019

NGT orders 100 percent treatment of sewage entering rivers

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Polythene bags and solid waste left behind as water recedes in the Ganga river. (Source: India Water Portal on Flickr)

December 11, 2019

Replacing rice will improve India’s climate resilience

A study calls for solutions that can benefit farmers and the environment and positively impact India's nutrition indicators.

Rice field in Karnataka (Image: Guldem Ustun, Flickr Commons, CC BY 2.0)

December 6, 2019

Holistic approach needed to clean the Ganga

A report by the India Rivers Forum highlights the need to focus further than the main stem of the Ganga river.

Distant snow clad mountains, the smaller hills and the Ganga river (Image: Srimoyee Banerjee, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0)

"Water Initiatives Orissa", a five-year old campaign to work on water issues in Orissa

Orissa may suffer from severe food insecurity, if desertification is not reversed. Its time to wake up from the deep slumber and to face and mitigate the challenges with firm and committed actions iwp posted 13 years 5 months ago

"Water Initiatives Orissa is a five-year-old campaign which draws strength from civil society organsations, grassroots communities, academicians and others who are determined to work on water, disasters and climate change issues". Email: waterinitiativesorissa@gmail.com

Water and culture : Celebration of floods in Kosi

The Celebration of Floods iwp posted 13 years 6 months ago

This is a snippet from Dinesh Kr. Mishra's book "Living With the Politics of Floods: The Mystery of Flood Control".

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January 17, 2021

75% districts and half of India’s population vulnerable to extreme climate events: CEEW study

The study found a shift in the pattern of extreme events in over 40% of Indian districts.

India is already the fifth most vulnerable country globally in terms of extreme climate events and it is all set to become the world’s flood capital (Image: Geralt, Pixabay license)

January 17, 2021

2020: Crammed in disasters, yet filled with hope

Last year was shrouded with a myriad of disasters but all was not bad. There were many success stories and great efforts in the water sector that maintained our hopes for a better tomorrow.

All was not negative for 2020 in the water sector as many states and districts gained credit for themselves (Image Source: IWP Flickr Album)

January 16, 2021

The invisible face of agriculture

Women farmers need support in the form of resources, technologies, policies and other actions to level the farming field. The first step is to recognise their role in farming.

Though women are involved in economic activities of the cropping system but their role is negligible in household decision making and participation (Image: PxHere)

January 13, 2021

Child malnutrition rises in five years, as per NFHS-5 data

The estimated increase in child stunting is only the tip of the iceberg.

Children born between 2014 and 2019 are more malnourished than those before. (Image: PxHere)