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Watershed management in India (Image Source: India Water Portal)
Friday, 27 December 2019 18:32
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.
The Ganga at Varanasi (Source: India Water Portal Flickr Photos)
Thursday, 19 December 2019 10:31
Parliamentary committee expresses disappointment over slow pace of Namami Gange
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Micro-irrigation and its impact on groundwater (Image Source: India Water Portal)
Wednesday, 18 December 2019 14:12
Micro-irrigation and groundwater use
A study from Gujarat finds that micro-irrigation combined with metered power led to a reduction in uncontrolled groundwater extraction by farmers.
A farmer uses a hosepipe to irrigate crops at her farm in Nilgiris mountains, Tamil Nadu (Image: Hamish John Appleby for IWMI, Flickr Commons, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Friday, 13 December 2019 9:12
Trading in virtual water
A study highlights the need to scale down the export of rice, maize, buffalo meat and other items to conserve groundwater in India.
Polythene bags and solid waste left behind as water recedes in the Ganga river. (Source: India Water Portal on Flickr)
Wednesday, 11 December 2019 12:05
NGT orders 100 percent treatment of sewage entering rivers
Policy matters this week
India will see more droughts in the future. (Image Source: Wikimedia Commons)
Wednesday, 4 December 2019 14:53
Looking back into history to understand droughts
The 2015­-2018 drought, the longest, but less severe of droughts experienced by India raises alarm on the negative effects of future droughts on water security in the country.
  • India’s deepening water crisis
    The last few months have seen much debate and discussion on the fast approaching Day Zero, with claims that taps in 21 major Indian cities will dry up. People in Chennai were compelled to queue up to collect water from tankers this past June. Last year’s NITI Aayog’s report set off alarm bells t...
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  • Telangana government, tribals oppose uranium mining in Nallamala forests
    Telangana government, tribals stand against proposed uranium mining in Nallamala forests A few months ago, the environment ministry gave in-principle approval to the Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL) to begin exploration for uranium in the Nallamala forest, which stretches across the stat...
    swatiposted 4 months 1 week agoread more
  • Farm ponds change farmers’ fortunes
    While enhanced irrigation coverage has been hailed as an important way to improve agricultural productivity, it continues to lag behind in India and agriculture continues to be rainfed, subject to the vagaries of the monsoon. High groundwater dependence for irrigation has not only led to its depleti...
    aarti kelkar kh...posted 4 months 1 week agoread more
  • How to restrict crops to geographically sustainable areas: The case of arecanut in Tumkur
    Arecanut is generally grown in the Malnad area of Karnataka, which receives high rainfall. However, it is also grown in dry land areas of Tumkur district, also in Karnataka, using groundwater. Arecanut cultivation area doubled from 5851 hectares in 1990-91 (Kumar 2003) to 12,628 hectares in 2001-02 ...
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  • How local democracy is solving water issues in southern Rajasthan
    While most parts of the country are facing a water crisis, here’s a case from the arid state of Rajasthan, where decentralized initiatives are solving water issues. Dungarpur in southern Rajasthan has exemplified how community participation with local level planning processes are working towards i...
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  • Gujarat tops NITI Aayog’s water index for second time
    NITI Aayog, the Government of India’s policy think tank, recently released the second edition of the Composite Water Management Index to enable effective water management in Indian states. It warns that the country will lose 6% of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 2050 because of a water crisis....
    Amita Bhaduriposted 4 months 2 weeks agoread more
  • Water Talk Series at TISS, Mumbai on 7th September 2019
    Team Malhar, students of Water Policy and Governance (WPG) and alumni of Tata Institute of Social Science, Mumbai in partnership with RRA Network proudly present the third annual session of "WATER TALK SERIES" on 7th September, 2019 at TISS, Mumbai The Water Talk Series was started in 2017 with t...
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  • Water in Pune’s urban quagmire
    Drinking water programs in India treat urban and rural areas separately, generally neglecting the special characteristics of settlements referred to as peri-urban – those on the outskirts or peripheries of urban areas, or “rurban” settlements i.e. rural areas with urban facilities. A study - ...
    Amita Bhaduriposted 4 months 3 weeks agoread more
  • In photos: How temple tanks are helping Chennai conserve rain water
    Besides showcasing the architectural expertise and aesthetics of their time, temple tanks also play an extremely important role as water storage systems in Chennai. Chennai has 39 temple tanks (excluding the suburban area) according to a study conducted in 2008.  As the rains arrived, a few tem...
    priyadposted 5 months 6 days agoread more
  • Beyond the death toll: The everyday violence of Assam’s floods
    Floods are an annual phenomenon in Assam. They are as integral to the state as the Brahmaputra River is, and each monsoon, we are reminded that Assam exists (or is drowning). As I write this piece, Assam is slowly recovering from the first wave of flood this monsoon. For several weeks, the entire st...
    priyadposted 5 months 1 week agoread more
  • Government set to conserve India's springs
    Government rolls out plan to revive springs across the country The Jal Shakti Ministry has proposed a pilot project for spring inventory and rejuvenation in the Tehri Garhwal district of Uttarakhand, and has suggested that similar projects of springs management be taken up in rest of the country wi...
    swatiposted 5 months 1 week agoread more
  • P Sainath: The water crisis is not caused by drought
    P Sainath has been documenting stories from rural India for over three decades now. He is the founder-editor of People's Archive of Rural India (PARI), a digital archive dedicated to people whose voices and stories don't always find space in mainstream media. Sainath previously covered the rural bea...
    priyadposted 5 months 2 weeks agoread more
  • Government undertakes 3D mapping of aquifers in all villages
    Government to 3D map aquifers in all villages Union Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekawat said that the Centre is carrying out 3D aquifer mapping of every village in India, to help target water conservation measures at a micro level across the country. Such an exercise will help the governmen...
    swatiposted 5 months 2 weeks agoread more
  • "Digging recharge wells is the only way Bengaluru won’t run out of water"
    Vishwanath Srikantaiah, popularly known as the 'Rainman', has been in the news recently for his ambitious project to build one million recharge wells in Bengaluru. Given the dire situation we find ourselves in vis-à-vis water, the initiative could not have come at a better time. While Vishwanath h...
    priyadposted 5 months 2 weeks agoread more
  • Fertiliser sector’s bleak record on water use in India
    Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), a New Delhi based non-profit has rated the country’s fertilizer sector on several parameters, in a first of its kind study. The rating, done over an 18-month-long process, covered 28 of the 32 functional fertilizer units in the country. The findings of thi...
    Amita Bhaduriposted 5 months 3 weeks agoread more
  • All work and some play
    India is, by far, the world’s largest groundwater economy. India’s annual withdrawal of fresh groundwater (253 Billion Cubic Metres in 2013) amounts to one fourth of the global total and is more than that of China and the US combined. Over 80% of water extracted is used in agriculture. The share...
    priyadposted 5 months 3 weeks agoread more
  • Is the Jalayukt Shivar Abhiyan just a quick fix to manage droughts?
    Maharashtra is reeling under drought this year too, with the situation in Marathwada particularly bad. As high as twenty four out of thirty six districts in the state are facing deficient monsoons and about 4,920 villages and 10,506 hamlets are now completely dependent on water tankers for drinking ...
    aarti kelkar kh...posted 5 months 3 weeks agoread more
  • 3rd Indian National Groundwater Conference (INGWC-2020), CWRDM, Kozhikode
    Centre for Water Resources Development and Management (CWRDM) is organizing the Indian National Groundwater Conference (INGWC-2020) to discuss 'Groundwater Resources Management for Sustainable Development with the Special Emphasis on Coastal and Urban Environment’ at CWRDM, Koz...
    prijuposted 5 months 3 weeks agoread more
  • Spending a summer building scalable water access in rural India
    This summer I had the incredible opportunity, to work with the Tata Trusts and their Tata Water Mission (TWM) initiative, exploring avenues to provide scalable water access to stakeholders in rural communities. TWM is one of the Trusts’ flagship initiatives in India, at the forefront of ensuring...
    priyadposted 6 months 3 days agoread more
  • Springing back to life
    In popular imagination, steeped in consumer culture, the hills are exotic and aesthetically sublime places to find solace away from busy urban life. This kind of imagination conveniently ignores and de-contextualizes the hills and the problems they face today. The Himalayas, often known as the Water...
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Posted Date : Thu, 2019-11-21 12:18
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.

Punjab, riding high on pesticides

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Posted By : swati
Posted Date : Wed, 2019-11-20 21:30

Objective of the event:

To orient participants on innovative borewell recharge method in rural areas as well as various methods of aquifer recharge in urban areas.

Target Participants:

Staff from NGOs who want to integrate the aquifer recharge techniques in their on-going water conservation initiatives in Rural and Urban areas. Students, individual urban residents, institutions as well as representatives of RWAs may also participate and benefit from the event.

Contents of the training:

December 16, 2019 10:00AM
December 5, 2019 11:45PM

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Posted Date : Mon, 2019-11-18 14:49
Bangalore's water utility is understaffed, under financed and unable to service the city's water needs.

“It is a lack of (institutional) capacity which is leading to public woes on water. We are not in a position to give you quality services because of two things – one, manpower, and two, finances,” said BWSSB Chairman Tushar Girinath, speaking at a panel discussion on ‘Sustainable, Equitable Access to Water’.

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Posted Date : Wed, 2019-11-13 10:45
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NGT pushes MoEF to issue notification to ban unnecessary use of RO purifiers

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Posted By : Anonymous (not verified)
Posted Date : Mon, 2019-11-11 17:33

I want to know, if Uttarakhand has any government scheme for water recharge as my village need that on urgent basis.

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Posted Date : Tue, 2019-11-05 12:08
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Focus on water conservation in MGNREGA: Rural Development ministry to states

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Posted By : priyad
Posted Date : Mon, 2019-11-04 12:23
Despite being the lifeline of India’s water supplies, groundwater is overlooked by policy makers and users alike.

A majority of India’s water problems are those relating to groundwater—water that is found beneath the earth’s surface. This is because we are the largest user of groundwater in the world, and therefore highly dependent on it.

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Posted By : Amita Bhaduri
Posted Date : Mon, 2019-10-28 14:11
Study identifies 5,000 illegal e-waste units in Delhi operating without health and environmental safeguards.

A study by Toxics Link, a Delhi-based environmental research and advocacy non-profit identified 15 e-waste processing hotspots in Delhi operating with impunity without safeguards. These hotspots house over 5,000 illegal e-waste processing units directly and indirectly employing over 50,000 people. The sheer scale of the violation of environmental norms highlights the failure of the system, especially of the E-waste (Management) Rules 2016.

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Posted Date : Fri, 2019-10-25 13:13
Groundwater use has doubled in Pune. Comprehensive mapping of groundwater resources and better management and governance is the need of the hour.

Pune continues to face a water crisis every summer despite having sufficient water, thanks to its geographical location and plentiful natural water assets. While enough of its water needs are taken care of by water supply from the Khadakwasla dam, the use of groundwater to meet the needs of the population continues to increase.

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Posted Date : Thu, 2019-10-24 16:38
While ice stupas have been hailed as sustainable solutions to the water problems of Ladakh’s villages, the locals think otherwise.

Ladakh, the arid Himalayan desert, is a high elevation borderland located close to the Union Territory (UT) of Jammu and Kashmir, in India. Water here originates from glaciers in the high altitude mountains that tower over Ladakh’s villages. Simple earthwork irrigation channels tap meltwater from streams that originate from these glaciers. The glaciers are extremely sensitive to seasonal variations and serious concerns have been raised in recent years on the impact of climate change on glacier recession and the subsequent sustainability of water resources in the region.

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The people living in the Mahanadi delta are forced to cope with frequent disasters, but recent progress in warnings, evacuation and shelters seems to have reduced losses. Urban areas in the delta are expanding and there is rural to urban migration which can be expected to continue. These urban areas will have important implications for the future of the delta. (Image: Helmer, Flickr Commons)
Friday, 24 January 2020 17:06
Climatic shocks wreak havoc on the Mahanadi delta
A view of the Nilgiris (Image credits: Golkul Halan)
Friday, 24 January 2020 11:36
Neeru and the Nilgiris
The Gangetic Dolphin (Source: Arati Kumar Rao)
Wednesday, 22 January 2020 20:57
Increased river traffic threatens Gangetic dolphins
Cauvery river at Hogenakal, Karnataka (Source: IWP Flickr Photos via Claire Arni and Oriole Henri)
Wednesday, 22 January 2020 20:41
Cauvery riverfront development plan gets an approval