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Floods in Majuli Assam. Photo credit: Mitul Baruah
Monday, 19 August 2019 12:53
Beyond the death toll: The everyday violence of Assam’s floods
Mitul Baruah from Ashoka University narrates personal experiences of people affected by floods in Majuli, Assam.
Many springs in the Himalayas have reduced discharge. (Source: India Water Portal)
Wednesday, 14 August 2019 8:32
Government set to conserve India's springs
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Picture: The semi-arid regions of the Moyar-Bhavani River basin in Tamil Nadu. Picture credit: Prathigna Poonacha, Tanvi Deshpande; Indian Institute for Human Settlements from India Water Portal on Flickr. Picture used for representational purposes only
Tuesday, 13 August 2019 11:47
P Sainath: The water crisis is not caused by drought
Magsaysay award winner & founder-editor of PARI, P Sainath analyses India's water scarcity, the agrarian crisis & farmer suicides, before asking: what can we do about it?
Groundwater drops to alarming levels. Illustration credit: KN Balraj. Source: India Water Portal on Flickr
Wednesday, 7 August 2019 23:07
Government undertakes 3D mapping of aquifers in all villages
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Ramakrishna Bovi is a traditional well-digger in Bengaluru. Image credit: Citizen Matters
Wednesday, 7 August 2019 14:29
"Digging recharge wells is the only way Bengaluru won’t run out of water"
A million recharge wells for Bangalore
There is need to improve the environmental performance of the fertiliser sector through multi-directional initiatives (Image: MaDailyGist)
Tuesday, 6 August 2019 14:09
Fertiliser sector’s bleak record on water use in India
A recent report by CSE rates fertilizer plants on how green the sector is.
  • How industries ruined Ratlam’s groundwater
    A resident of Bajankheda village in Ratlam district of Madhya Pradesh, Sitabai Tindor shows her pot full of water to us. A strange red, the water looks unusual. “We have been using this red water for domestic use for the last two decades. Industries in Ratlam has spoilt our land and water. The gov...
    makarandpurohitposted 1 year 3 weeks agoread more
  • Chennai floods was man-made disaster: CAG
    CAG blames TN government for Chennai floods in 2015 The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has held the Tamil Nadu government responsible for Chennai floods of 2015. The CAG report, ‘Flood management and response in Chennai and its suburban areas’, has revealed that the state's wate...
    swatiposted 1 year 1 month agoread more
  • No water security without water quality
    Groundwater is a major source of water for a large number of Indians with 66 percent rural households and 27 percent urban households directly depending on it for drinking purposes, as per Census 2011. There is a greater daily dependence on groundwater for non-potable uses. Almost 75 percent of Ind...
    Amita Bhaduriposted 1 year 1 month agoread more
  • Karnataka announces two big water projects in its budget
    Karnataka budget focuses on big water projects, misses out on sustainability In its budget, the Karnataka government has announced speeding up of the Mekedatu project. It has also earmarked Rs 50 crore for the rejuvenation of Bellandur lake and has promised to take steps towards supplying the ...
    swatiposted 1 year 1 month agoread more
  • “Agriculture alone cannot provide for our teeming millions.”
    In India, although we have approximately four months of monsoon (which is basically 45 days of effective rainfall), in drought prone areas, there are only 10-15 days of harvestable rain in the entire season. If you don't get enough rain during those days, it's a cause for worry. Given that evaporat...
    priyadposted 1 year 1 month agoread more
  • Village steps up water revival effort
    Long before piped water supply became the norm, groundwater got extracted for use and rivers neglected, stepwells served as a major source of water for people. Victoria Lautman, a senior journalist and a researcher on stepwells writes in an article on Indian stepwells that these water storage struct...
    makarandpurohitposted 1 year 1 month agoread more
  • The politics of groundwater
    A growing demand for water implies the need for an improved understanding of our resources, and the ability to manage that demand in an equitable and sustainable way. Wells, not dams, have been the temples of modern India India is a groundwater economy. At 260 cubic km per year, our country is the...
    priyadposted 1 year 1 month agoread more
  • GIS and Mapping (Basic Skills Course) for NGO workers & Development professionals by Water & Livelihoods Foundation (WLF)
    HIGHLIGHTS Mapping is an important aspect of development work, helping to visualize spatial features and monitor temporal changes. Most of the social workers and development professionals lack GIS based mapping skills, where as GIS professionals fall short due to limit...
    priyadposted 1 year 1 month agoread more
  • When solving one health problem triggers another
    Up until two decades ago, the main sources of drinking water in Rajasthan included surface water from perennial ponds, reservoirs, lakes, dams, rivers and streams with borewells and tubewells used sparingly and only in remote areas. All this changed when guinea worm infections started appearing in t...
    aarti kelkar kh...posted 1 year 1 month agoread more
  • Centre forms Cauvery Water Regulation Committee
    Cauvery Water Regulation Committee comes into being A Cauvery Water Regulation Committee has been constituted by the Centre. Though the committee is designed to have representatives from four states of the Cauvery basin--Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Puducherry--it currently has no one from K...
    seetha@indiawat...posted 1 year 1 month agoread more
  • Hyderabad's groundwater levels fail to improve
    Good rainfall fails to improve Hyderabad's groundwater table Despite the city receiving excess rainfall in 2017-18, Hyderabad’s groundwater levels continue to be precarious. The city received 1123 mm of rain, nearly 44 percent higher than the normal expected rainfall last season but the increase ...
    seetha@indiawat...posted 1 year 1 month agoread more
  • Punjab farmers offered monetary benefit to save water
    Punjab introduces “Paani Bacho, Paise Kamao” scheme to motivate farmers to pump less Aimed at improving water use efficiency, the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited has come up with a new scheme, “Paani Bacho, Paise Kamao”. Under this, farmers will be compensated for decreased use ...
    seetha@indiawat...posted 1 year 2 months agoread more
  • Toilets need water, women suffer under ODF drive
    Rajasthan is all geared up for the open defecation free (ODF) status well before the national deadline of October 2, 2019. According to the assistant engineer of the nagar parishad, Resha Singh, 4.75 lakh toilets have been constructed since October 2, 2014 in Alwar district which is about to be decl...
    Amita Bhaduriposted 1 year 2 months agoread more
  • Wetland turns treasure trove of herbs
    The districts of Tiruvallur, Chennai and Kanchipuram once boasted of a landscape densely dotted with wetlands and a lifestyle that was closely linked to the survival of these water bodies. With the boundaries of the Chennai metropolitan area considerably distended and concrete slowly creeping into t...
    seetha@indiawat...posted 1 year 2 months agoread more
  • Alwar homes, farms and factories fight for water
    Lewari, a village located around 17 km from Alwar in Rajasthan, is the site of a water conflict these days. “The production of Jayanti jaljeera, haazme ka lalantop drink (a digestive drink) has left our village parched,” says Nanak Singh, a resident. Singh is referring to the excessive quantity ...
    Amita Bhaduriposted 1 year 2 months agoread more
  • Thane creek flamingo sanctuary formally notified
    Maharashtra government notifies Thane creek as flamingo sanctuary The state government has formally notified 16.9 sq km on the western side of the Thane creek as a dedicated flamingo sanctuary. In addition to over 40,000 flamingoes that call the creek home for six months, the sanctuary also hosts a...
    seetha@indiawat...posted 1 year 2 months agoread more
  • Bore wells to store rain water
    Hello, Every time it rains, I see huge rain water gushing through the roads and drains of Bangalore city. The entire water gets wasted as it reaches the sewage and flows out of city as sewage water. If we can stock this running water across the areas, it should recharge the depleting ground water a...
    Anonymous (not verified)posted 1 year 3 months agoread more
  • Hyderabad's sewage-filled drains cleaned manually
    Ahead of monsoon, workers made to clean stormwater drains filled with sewage in Hyderabad Despite the ban on manual scavenging, sanitation workers are made to clean sewage-filled stormwater drains across Hyderabad as part of the city’s monsoon preparedness drive. Workers enter stormwater drains s...
    seetha@indiawat...posted 1 year 3 months agoread more
  • Centre submits draft scheme on Cauvery water sharing
    Centre submits draft scheme on Cauvery river water sharing to the Supreme Court The Central government has submitted a draft scheme for managing Cauvery water in the Supreme Court. Stating that the authority would be a body corporate headquartered in Bengaluru, the Centre said it had no restri...
    seetha@indiawat...posted 1 year 3 months agoread more
  • Assam continues to battle fluorosis
    Farhanuddin was just five years old when a pain in his knee began bothering him. It was 2013. Slowly, his legs began to change shape. They got so badly deformed that it began to affect his everyday life. He was gloomy and tired most times and had trouble walking. His parents thought that lengra bhoo...
    Amita Bhaduriposted 1 year 3 months agoread more

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Posted Date : Thu, 2019-03-21 19:48
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UN releases the World Water Development Report 2019

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Posted Date : Wed, 2019-02-27 13:05
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In a decade, only a quarter of centrally funded major to medium irrigation schemes completed: Report

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Posted Date : Mon, 2019-02-25 16:20

Compiled by Pankaj Kumar S., Resource Person; additional research provided by Ramya Gopalan, Research Associate, 22 August 2006

Original Query: Mihir Maitra, India-Canada Environment Facility (ICEF), New Delhi

Posted: 26 July 2006

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Posted By : Anonymous (not verified)
Posted Date : Tue, 2019-02-19 22:23

We have an open well in our agriculture land but the soil from the sides are falling frequently into the well. The soil is preventing the water coming to the well from its sides. We want to fix this permanently but the option we see is concrete rings, but by considering the size of our well it looks a bit expensive option. Please suggest if there is an alternative to this.

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Posted Date : Tue, 2019-02-19 17:54
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NGT slaps a fine of Rs 100 crore on TN government for failing to restore Chennai's waterways

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Posted Date : Tue, 2019-02-19 17:37
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World Bank to provide Rs 11,000 crore for dam safety

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Posted Date : Tue, 2019-02-19 15:07
A study suggests water towers of Asia contain less water than estimated.

The Himalayas are often called the water towers of Asia because of the vast amount of water locked in the form of ice in thousands of glaciers there. But concerns relating to climate change have often put a question mark on future water availability from these glaciers. Now a new study on ice thickness of glaciers has estimated that glaciers in the Hindu Kush Himalayas might contain 27 percent less ice than previously suggested.

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Posted Date : Wed, 2019-02-13 13:29
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Navigation lock at Farakka Barrage redesigned for Hilsa migration

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Posted Date : Thu, 2019-02-07 12:30
While changing rainfall patterns, increased frequency of cyclones, droughts and floods threaten food and water security in India, adaptation strategies to cope with these changes are crucial.

India is undergoing a major transition with changes in rainfall patterns leading to increased frequency of droughts, floods, heat waves amidst fear of a major water crisis in the years to come. Why are these threats increasing?

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Posted Date : Wed, 2019-01-30 11:26
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Country's groundwater crisis showcases need to enact model groundwater bill

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