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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.

Watershed management in India (Image Source: India Water Portal)

December 11, 2019

NGT orders 100 percent treatment of sewage entering rivers

Policy matters this week

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

November 21, 2019

The poisoned landscapes of Punjab

Excessive and unregulated pesticide use has not only poisoned the soil, water and environment in villages in Punjab’s Malwa region – it has also increased health risks for the people.

Farmer spraying pesticide (Source: Wikimedia Commons)

November 6, 2019

300 million people will be vulnerable to annual coastline flooding by 2050

The number of people vulnerable to floods triggered by climate change by 2050 is triple that of previous estimates, according to a new study.

Aerial view of Chennai during floods 2015 (Image: Veethika, Wikimedia Commons, CC-SA 4.0 International)

October 25, 2019

Mapping Pune’s aquifers

Groundwater use has doubled in Pune. Comprehensive mapping of groundwater resources and better management and governance is the need of the hour.

Groundwater, an exploited resource (Image Source: India Water Portal)

October 23, 2019

Drinking water availability should be a top priority, concrete action should be taken against water wastage: NGT

Policy matters this week

Queuing up for water (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)

India now has 41 Ramsar sites, with two more wetlands added to the list

Policy matters this week Swati Bansal posted 2 weeks 1 day ago

Lonar Sarovar lake Maharastra (Source: Wikipedia Commons)

A rainbow recovery post-COVID

The movement towards radical ecological democracy needs to combine the practical and policy-level grassroots work with broader mobilization. Amita Bhaduri posted 1 month 3 weeks ago

The women of Deccan Development Society sanghams move towards more localized natural resource management (Image: Deccan Development Society, Facebook Page)

No improvement in the water quality of the Ganga during lockdown: CPCB

News this week Swati Bansal posted 1 month 3 weeks ago

Ganga river at Kachla, Uttar Pradesh. (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)

Forests, the fast disappearing treasure troves of forest dwellers

Rapidly disappearing forests are not only a threat to the biodiversity, but spell death knell for the livelihoods of forest dwellers who depend on them for food and survival. aartikelkar posted 1 month 3 weeks ago

Dried mahua flowers (Image Source: Pankaj Oudhia via Wikimedia Commons)

How forest-dwelling communities are braving the pandemic

Local communities and gram sabhas better understand the local complexities than the local administrations while dealing with a crisis situation. Amita Bhaduri posted 2 months ago

The non timber forest products collection season, which is mainly in the months of April to June coincided exactly with the lockdown (Image: CIFOR, Flickr Commons)

Poor implementation of forest rights act hurts tribals

Need to recognise the rights of forest-dwelling and tribal communities over their traditional lands. Amita Bhaduri posted 2 months ago

Indigenous groups that lived and helped maintain the forests for centuries have been undermined (Image: Baiga women, Wikimedia Commons; CC BY-SA 3.0)

Is the draft EIA notification 2020 anti-environment?

The draft notification is alleged to dilute the process and standards for environmental clearances for industries. Amita Bhaduri posted 3 months ago

Villager looking at mining devastated areas in Goa (Image: Frederik Noronha; Wikimedia Commons; CC A-S A 4.0 International)

Groundwater extraction: NGT gets strict with commercial entities

Policy matters this week Swati Bansal posted 3 months 3 weeks ago

NGT gets strict with commercial entities (Source: IWP Flickr album)

Green court slams centre over groundwater withdrawal in dry areas

Policy matters this week Swati Bansal posted 4 months 1 week ago

A well in Rajasthan (Source: IWP Flickr photos)

Protecting mangroves, to deal with cyclones

Mangroves not only help India economically by protecting coastal assets during cyclones, but also help by protecting people in densely populated coastal areas. aartikelkar posted 5 months 1 week ago

Mangroves of the Sundarbans. (Source: Nature Environment & Wildlife Society - NEWS)

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December 2, 2020

Illegal sand mining led to 193 deaths in two years, says report

News this week

Sand mining on the banks of Tapti (Source: IWP Flickr photos)

December 2, 2020

NGT orders states to designate nodal agencies for restoring water bodies

Policy matters this week

Gharisar lake in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan (Source: IWP Flickr photos)

December 2, 2020

Madhya Pradesh’s recurring droughts: Measuring, responding and reducing the vulnerabilities

Drought vulnerability in agriculture has been recognised as a key development issue in the state.

Rugged, rocky terrain of Bundelkhand, Madhya Pradesh (Image: Shweta Prajapati)

December 1, 2020

Sustainable mobility amid COVID-19 pandemic

There is a need to address the wider challenge of development pattern and infrastructure provision to deal with the issue of sustainable mobility.

Though during the COVID-19 lockdown, people’s interest for non-motorised transport has witnessed a rise, the lack of infrastructure such as separate cycle tracks etc. among other reasons is likely to adversely affect this. (Image: Needpix)