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The pollution rates of the river Hindon are alarming. Despite work by conservation groups, the efforts on the part of the government to fix the problem remain uncertain. (Image: Hindi Water Portal)
Tuesday, 23 April 2019 18:48
Making water available for all
Civil society activists champion alternatives to conventional water management solutions implemented by the government.
Labourers crush stones at illegal stone quarries. (Pic: Gurvinder Singh)
Wednesday, 3 April 2019 10:13
How mining ruined lives and livelihoods
Illegal stone quarries have changed the face of Birbhum district where villagers are finding it difficult to survive due to contaminated water and pollution.
The weather station at Randullabad that helps farmers plan their crops. (Photo by Manu Moudgil)
Saturday, 23 March 2019 23:45
Number crunching helps farmers manage water
Calculating water availability and crop budgeting can prevent over-extraction of groundwater and mounting farm debt.
Photo courtesy: Arjun Swaminathan
Monday, 18 March 2019 15:58
An integrated approach to water quality management
Chemical contamination of drinking water is a significant health concern in India, one we haven’t realised the magnitude of. Practitioners across sectors must come together to tackle this issue.
Women and water: a critical connect
Friday, 8 March 2019 12:45
Women and Water
On International Women's Day today, we take a look at the critical connects between gender and water.
Project Raahat is a fully sustainable project under the umbrella of Enactus SSCBS in collaboration with the Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board. (Image: Project Raahat, Enactus SSCBS)
Tuesday, 29 January 2019 15:42
Operating community toilet complexes
Project Raahat has developed a guide to replicate the best practices to standardise the operations of a community toilet complex.
  • Anicuts affect Mahanadi's flow
    Gopal Nishad, a fisherman in his early 40s, is frustrated that there is hardly any fish left in the Mahanadi’s basin at Pitaibandh due to the lack of water in the basin. This basin is located near Rajim-Nawapara in Chhattisgarh, the proposed site for the fourth anicut on the Mahanadi. He reminisce...
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  • Environmentalists irked by draft CRZ notification
    Environmentalists fear new CRZ rules will favour infrastructure over coastal ecosystems Activists and environmentalists are of the opinion that the draft revised Coastal Zone Regulation Notification favour infrastructure over coastal ecosystems and livelihoods. The reduction of the definition of co...
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  • Coastal areas likely to be opened up for development
    Environment ministry issues draft Coastal Zone Regulation notification The union environment ministry has issued the draft Coastal Zone Regulation Notification which seeks to open up India’s coastlines for eco-tourism and infrastructure development. The revised notification allows nature tra...
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  • Locks down, barrage scares Durgapur
    The industrial township of Durgapur, situated 150 km from Kolkata, faced a severe water crisis for two days in November last year when the Durgapur barrage became dry following a leak at one of the lock gates of the barrage. Durgapur barrage is located across the Damodar river at Bankura in Bankura ...
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  • Treating sewage with plants
    A radical new method is fast emerging as an effective and sustainable solution to increasing pollution in urban lakes. Called floating treatment wetlands (FTW), they are artificial islands with plants that stay afloat on the lake. The plants clean the lake through hydroponics system, resulting in a ...
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  • NGT appointed team inspects Bengaluru lakes
    National Green Tribunal forms commission to inspect Bengaluru lakes Unhappy with the Karnataka government’s reply regarding the revival of the Bellandur, Varthur and Agara lakes, the National Green Tribunal set up a commission comprising officials and experts to inspect Bengaluru’s polluted lak...
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  • Tackling fluorosis by following Nalgonda's lead
    Fluorosis continues to be a regional issue in Telangana to this day, even decades after the first cases were discovered in Nalgonda in 1937. More than three lakh people in the district are affected with skeletal and dental fluorosis, a stigma that has stuck for generations. Excessive fluor...
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  • Saving Jhabua’s children from fluorosis
    In 2010, nine-year-old Kailash from Miyati village, Jhabua developed symptoms of skeletal fluorosis. Fluorosis, which affects millions of people in India, is a health issue caused due to high fluoride content in drinking water. Skeletal fluorosis is marked by deformed bones. It affected all aspects ...
    Amita Bhaduriposted 1 year 1 week agoread more
  • Power play chokes Korba
    Korba in Chhattisgarh is an industrial area which has a significant number of coal mines and thermal power plants. Fly ash is a byproduct of the thermal power plants and has become a significant problem for the residents of Korba now. More than one lakh metric tonnes of fly ash is generated annually...
    makarandpurohitposted 1 year 2 weeks agoread more
  • There’s no better gift, Daan Toilet!
    Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s pet project, Swachh Bharat that envisages an open defecation-free India by the year 2019 has witnessed many local administrations take drastic measures to get people to build and use a toilet. From naming and shaming to coaxing people to use toilets and incentivising...
    arathiposted 1 year 2 weeks agoread more
  • Down in the dumps: Delhi’s waste pickers’ saga
    Eight-year-old Meera (name changed) got ill after eating filthy food remains from a dump at Mansarovar park in Delhi. Children like her work in filthy environments, rummaging through hazardous waste with bare hands and feet. They play in these dumping ground strewn with syringes, scrap iron, rotting...
    Amita Bhaduriposted 1 year 2 weeks agoread more
  • SC slams Centre on Cauvery water sharing
    Apex court seeks draft on Cauvery management scheme by May 3 The apex court has reprimanded the Centre for failing to implement its verdict on the Cauvery water sharing dispute and for missing the deadline to file a draft of the Cauvery management scheme. The court has asked the Centre to submit a ...
    seetha@indiawat...posted 1 year 2 weeks agoread more
  • Seven reasons why Bengaluru can still run out of water
    A recent BBC report projected that Bengaluru will run out of water soon. Yes, it was a superficial list of cities that already have water problem. It just pronounced the harsh verdict without any in-depth analysis of the factors involved. That’s like taking a casual look at an emaciated man and s...
    priyadposted 1 year 2 weeks agoread more
  • New technique to monitor coastal landforms
    Indian scientists have developed a remote sensing technique that uses satellite data to delineate between various coastal landforms like beaches, mangroves and marshes. This method can help monitor and understand impacts of natural disasters as well as human activities on coastal ecosystem. Coastal...
    arathiposted 1 year 2 weeks agoread more
  • Filthy fountains spread dengue fear
    West Bengal’s tryst with dengue in 2017 could not have been more deadly. Around 13000 people were affected and nearly 100 people lost their lives to the disease. Among the worst hit was the South 24 Parganas district with every household having at least one person down with the mosquito-borne dise...
    arathiposted 1 year 3 weeks agoread more
  • Mangar Bani: NCR's green patch calls for help
    According to the local legend, Mangar Bani, a green patch between Faridabad and Gurgaon, was home to a Baba (a holy man), Gudariya Das Maharaj around 500 years ago. Popular among the local Gujjar herdsmen, the dominant community of the area, the Baba asked them to treat this forest as a sacred ...
    Amita Bhaduriposted 1 year 4 weeks agoread more
  • Is your bottled water safe to drink?
    It is a fairly common practice among people to buy bottled drinking water while travelling in India with the hope that it will minimise the risk of getting ill due to contaminated water. But is this water safe to drink? Recent evidence shows that as high as three out of 10 units of the packaged dri...
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  • Fluorosis detection: A step towards providing clean water
    Rabindra Kumar Jena, the Member of Parliament (MP) from Balasore, Odisha knew that something was wrong with the health of people in a part of his constituency but he could not put his finger to it. By sheer chance, in 2015, he got to know that this seemed to be related to excessive fluoride in water...
    Amita Bhaduriposted 1 year 1 month agoread more
  • IFAT India 2018 - India's Leading Trade Fair for Water, Sewage, Solid Waste and Recycling,October 15 -17, 2018.
    On the completion of five successful consecutive editions of IFAT India, IFAT India has now established itself as India's leading trade fair for Water, Sewage, Solid Waste and Recycling. This show will provide opportunities to the attendees to display their products, technologies and new innovations...
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  • Seeds of discontent
    Small farmers are the key to ending poverty and hunger and promoting sustainable development. In India, small and marginal farmers—those who work on less than two hectares (five acres) of land—constitute 80 percent of all farm households, 50 percent of rural households and 36 percent of the tota...
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Posted Date : Thu, 2018-11-08 15:06
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Global wildlife populations have fallen by 60 percent in the past four decades: WWF

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Posted Date : Thu, 2018-11-08 14:39
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NMCG approves 12 projects worth Rs 929 crore under Namami Gange

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Posted Date : Wed, 2018-11-07 19:33
Wind farms reduce the number of predatory birds which in turn results in an increase in the density of vertebrates like lizards in Western Ghats.

Wind energy, considered a clean source of energy, does have a carbon footprint and is also known to disturb bird life. Now a new study done in the Western Ghats has found that wind farms in biodiversity-rich areas can have deeper ecological consequences beyond already known impacts. 

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Posted Date : Wed, 2018-10-31 10:40
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Human activities are taking a heavy toll on country's resilience to drought

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Posted Date : Tue, 2018-10-30 10:12
Farmer Thangavel tastes success with date farming in the drought-prone region of Vidarbha.

In a drought-prone region like Vidarbha in Maharashtra, mostly in the news for water scarcity and farmer suicide, it is not every day that you hear the success story of a farmer. That's why the story of Savi Thangavel, 69, a resident of Mohegaon village which is just 22 km from Nagpur, is special. He took up date farming when nobody even thought about it and became the first successful date farmer in the region.

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Posted Date : Thu, 2018-10-25 11:01
A CAG audit finds out an ineffective implementation of rural drinking water schemes in Odisha with the least covered and quality-affected habitations ignored.

On March 16, 2017, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India began a performance audit of the National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP) by discussing with the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation the scope and methodology of the performance audit. Records relating to the implementation of the programme in 27 states for the five-year period (2012 to 2017) were examined.

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Posted Date : Wed, 2018-10-24 16:04

Sectoral focus: Water resource management and supply

Regional Focus: Central India

Theme: Building cross-sectoral collaborations to understand the dynamic interactions across the water-energy-food nexus

Venue: Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

November 10, 2018 12:00AM

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Posted Date : Tue, 2018-10-23 10:47
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Fund approved to boost climate resilience among coastal communities

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Posted Date : Sun, 2018-10-21 11:44
With government apathetic towards sewer deaths from manual scavenging, individuals and organisations are coming up with tech solutions to stop the practice.

Anil (40) died on September 14, 2018 while clearing a block in a sewage line at Dabri, a locality in north-west Delhi. Cleaners hired by state governments and civic bodies are supposed to be provided safety equipment like gas masks, goggles, gumshoes, gloves, safety belt etc. Yet, Anil was unprotected when he died of asphyxiation due to the presence of poisonous gas in the gutter. Delhi saw a wave of anger around official apathy on the issue despite 10 similar deaths were reported in the capital before this.

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Posted Date : Sat, 2018-10-20 14:28
The centre will focus on real-time structured surveillance for insect-pests and diseases using GPS-tagging techniques.

The Department of Science and Technology (DST) has established a centre of excellence on climate change research for plant protection at the Hyderabad-based International Crop Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT). Its objective will be to help make agriculture more resilient to vagaries of climate change. 

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India's water woes need urgent attention. (Image Source: India Water Portal)
Thursday, 25 April 2019 12:04
Water management: Still a neglected electoral issue?
Ganga river at Gadmukteshwar (Source: IWP Flickr photos)
Wednesday, 24 April 2019 14:21
High proportion of antibacterial agents in Ganga: Study
A negelcted wetland in Punjab (Source: IWP Flickr photos)
Wednesday, 24 April 2019 10:46
NGT adamant on committees to manage biodiversity
Crop irrigation with groundwater, powered by electricity in Gujarat. (Image: Tesh, Wikimedia Commons, CC-4.0A-ShareAlike-International)
Tuesday, 23 April 2019 19:12
Groundwater depletes in north and east India