Governance
UNLEASH Hacks Bharat | Invitation for Application to Build Climate Resilient India
posted 5 months agoMarginalized communities across the country are facing the brunt of climate change which is not only questioning their survival but is also affecting their livelihood.
Online Training: Design and Implementation of DEWATS
posted 5 months agoThe Consortium for DEWATS™ Dissemination (CDD) Society is organising an "Online Training on DEWATS" to impart the knowledge and skills required for planning, designing, implementing, and managing DEWATS™ (Decentralised Wastewater Treatment System).

Gender-sensitive response to the climate crisis
posted 5 months agoA crowd of people jostling by the ticket counter at Jhansi railway station in Uttar Pradesh; men and women, some with families in tow, boarding trains to Delhi, Lucknow, Mumbai and other big cities. These are common sights during the summer months at Jhansi, a major town and railway junction.

Groundwater extraction: NGT gets strict with commercial entities
posted 5 months agoNGT bans granting general permissions for groundwater extraction to commercial entities

Monsoon experiences a countrywide deficit of 10 percent in July
posted 5 months agoMonsoon 2020: Countrywide deficit of 10 percent in July; September may have heavy rains

Amphan’s impact on farming and livelihood in Sunderbans
posted 5 months agoThe Amphan cyclone has disfigured the lives of people living in the Sundarbans. Houses have been torn apart, farms have been filled with brackish water making the land unsuitable for farming and betel leaves have been destroyed. People in the Sundarbans are in a life-threatening situation with makeshift shacks to live in and no means to earn a living.

Banking on rainwater harvesting
posted 5 months agoNational Water Mission’s (NWM) has launched a campaign ‘Catch the rain’ on a pan India basis to nudge the states and stakeholders to create appropriate rainwater harvesting structures (RWHS) suitable to the climatic conditions and sub-soil strata before the onset of monsoon.

Understanding Atal Bhujal Yojana through the program guidelines
posted 5 months 1 week agoGroundwater fulfills the drinking water requirements of nearly 85% and 50% of the rural and urban Indian population, respectively. 65% of the total irrigated area utilizes groundwater. It also caters to the water needs of the industrial sector in India.

Bihar floods: 'Living on 2.5 Kg flattened rice’
posted 5 months 1 week agoTwo weeks ago, the Kanakai River flowing through Kishanganj rendered dozens of families homeless. While the people in the region are staying under plastic sheds, the government has turned a blind eye to their plight.
Mohammadin is also one of them. He tells the India Water Portal,

"Everything’s devastated, and no one is listening to us!"
posted 5 months 1 week ago"All of a sudden, water entered the house at night. Goods and cattle were submerged. There is no place to eat or drink. We have been in trouble for three days, but no one has come to help us.” The elderly Gauri Singh complains, with mixed feelings of anger, pain and helplessness.
