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December 27, 2019
Watershed Management Compendium
This compendium by Dr Mihir Kumar Maitra answers all questions that will be of great use to practitioners engaged in both engineering and management aspects of watershed management in the field.
December 26, 2019
Centre holds green signal to Kalasa-Banduri project
Policy matters this week
December 19, 2019
Parliamentary committee expresses disappointment over slow pace of Namami Gange
Policy matters this week
December 11, 2019
NGT orders 100 percent treatment of sewage entering rivers
Policy matters this week
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.
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.
Arrival of northeast monsoon & retreat of southwest monsoon coincides this year; Salt lake and several metro cities shrinking at alarming pace
News this week
Swati Bansal posted 11 months 4 weeks ago
Manipur’s floating lake at risk
A study using remote sensing techniques assesses significant changes in land use in Loktak lake.
Amita Bhaduri posted 1 year ago
Pune groundwater extraction doubles in last decade; Uranium found in Telengana groundwater; Lower Subansiri project gets a boost
News this week
Swati Bansal posted 1 year ago
Monsoon withdrawal delayed; more extreme weather events the new trend
News this week
Swati Bansal posted 1 year ago
River as a cultural mosaic
A dialogue that highlights the cultural essence of rivers
Amita Bhaduri posted 1 year ago
India’s target to combat land degradation and desertification
While India has increased its target of restoring degraded land from 21 million ha to 26 million ha, what is the scale of the challenge and what do the new targets mean?
aarti kelkar k… posted 1 year ago
From droughts to floods: India’s tryst with climate extremes
Deconstructing the traditional narrow engineering based policy discourses around floods and droughts and connecting them to social and cultural realities is the need of the hour in India.
aarti kelkar k… posted 1 year ago
The Water Future Conference in Bangalore: Towards a Sustainable Water Future
The recently concluded 4 day conference in Bangalore looked at the current state of global water resource challenges & future pathways to achieve the SDGs, while ensuring equity in access to all.
priyad posted 1 year ago
GIS and Remote Sensing Workshop on Natural Resource Management
Udaipur, 10th to 14th October 2019
priyad posted 1 year 1 month ago
Stop farming on Yamuna floodplains by 2020: NGT to DDA
Policy matters this week
Swati Bansal posted 1 year 1 month ago
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