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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
Policy matters this week
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.
  • Post floods, why has Kerala gone dry?
    In Kerala, there was a devastating flood in the month of August. For a week or so it rained incessantly in the Western Ghats and on the plains. All the rivers were in spate. There were too many landslides on the hilly regions and the plains were under water for a week or so. When the flood waters fi...
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  • Sacred groves, the water wizards of Uttarakhand
    Sacred groves are undisturbed or preserved patches of vegetation or forested areas located on the outskirts of villages, towns or plains that are conserved by communities by dedicating them to local folk deities or ancestral spirits. Locals believe that these forests belong to deities and their dest...
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  • Lake congestion worsened Kerala floods: CWC
    Clean chit to dam management, CWC says congested Vembanad lake worsened floods in Kerala In its assessment of the cause of the devastating floods in Kerala, the Central Water Commission (CWC) has said that it was the congestion in the carrying capacity of the Vembanad Lake, the largest lake in Kera...
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  • More water for crops
    A new study has pointed out that increased irrigation efficiency does not translate to more water availability for other uses at the watershed level. The subsidies for increasing irrigation efficiency are intended to increase crop production as well as more return flow from irrigated areas that can ...
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  • Maharashtra comes out with draft groundwater rules
    Maharashtra farmers to need approval to sow water-intensive crops  In its latest draft of Maharashtra Groundwater (Development and Management) Rules 2018, the government has made a provision that will require farmers in notified groundwater-stressed areas to seek permission before sowing "wate...
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  • Himalayan springs drying up: Niti Ayog
    Nearly 30 percent of springs in the Himalayas are drying up: Niti Ayog According to the report prepared by five working groups set up by Niti Aayog, nearly 30 percent of springs in the Himalayas are drying up while 50 percent have reported reduced discharge. The working groups were a...
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  • Footwear industry pollutes, villagers put their foot down
    As per the regional plan 2021 chalked out by the national capital regional planning board in 2005, Bahadurgarh, a small town in Haryana is a part of the Delhi metropolitan area. The town, located in Jhajjar district, is growing at a fast pace. It has, in the last few decades, seen development of ind...
    Amita Bhaduriposted 1 year 5 months agoread more
  • Potable water supply target not met: CAG
    National Rural Drinking Water Programme: Targets remain unachieved According to a report by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), the National Rural Drinking Water Programme has been unable to achieve its target of supplying safe drinking water to all rural habitations, government sc...
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  • Groundwater contamination adds to India's water woes
    India's water woes increase due to depleted and contaminated groundwater: Government Depleting groundwater levels coupled with extreme weather conditions are impacting the agriculture output and may also become a hindrance to the Centre's target of doubling farmers’ income by 2022. As per the gov...
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  • Challenges of being a ‘Prerak’
    Most of Etawah, a city on the banks of the Yamuna river in Uttar Pradesh, has plenty of stories to share about their favourite leader Daddaji or Mulayam Singh Yadav, one of the former chief ministers of Uttar Pradesh. The area bordering the ravines near Chambal, on the other hand, resounds with tale...
    Amita Bhaduriposted 1 year 6 months agoread more
  • 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 6 months 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...
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  • 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 6 months 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 ...
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  • “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 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months 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 7 months 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 7 months 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...
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Posted Date : Wed, 2019-06-26 10:53
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Monsoon makes slowest progress across India in 12 years (source: Times of India)

Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) records show that this year's monsoon has so far been the slowest progressing monsoon in the past 12 years.

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Posted Date : Tue, 2019-06-18 20:23
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The threat of desertification increases in 26 of 29 states

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Posted Date : Mon, 2019-06-17 18:20
While WOTR’s work has contributed to improving SDG outcomes, what are the learnings from the efforts made by the organisation to map and identify the pathways that have brought about this change?

Sustainable development, still an unfinished agenda

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Posted Date : Fri, 2019-06-14 11:34
An analysis of the effectiveness of the Composite Water Management Index as a policy-making tool

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Posted Date : Wed, 2019-06-12 12:24
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HC orders Haryana government to supply adequate water to Delhi and monitor Yamuna through live Google maps

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Posted Date : Wed, 2019-06-12 12:09
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Swachh Bharat Mission reduced groundwater contamination: UNICEF

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Posted Date : Tue, 2019-06-04 21:34
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Jal Shakti ministry formed by merging water ministry and drinking water ministry

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Posted Date : Thu, 2019-05-30 15:56
Study finds 2.34 crore people in rural UP exposed to high levels of arsenic in groundwater

New Delhi, May 30 (India Science Wire): A new study has found that as many as 2.34 crore people in rural areas of Uttar Pradesh are exposed to high levels of arsenic in groundwater.

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Posted Date : Tue, 2019-05-28 15:15
Samples from the Laxmi Basin uncover fascinatingly complex evolution of Indian Ocean

New Delhi, May 28 (India Science Wire): An international team of scientists has unearthed ancient rock samples from the seabed near Laxmi Basin located on the western margin of the Indian continental plate. An analysis of these samples shows that the evolution of the northern Indian Ocean was far more complex than previously thought.

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Posted By : Anonymous (not verified)
Posted Date : Sun, 2019-05-26 12:32

Our apartment complex in Bengaluru has sloping roof which does not allow us to have a roof top collection of rainwater. All that water comes down and flows on the roads of the complex to the lowest point in our complex before it goes out. Can this water which has traversed the complex on ground level be used to recharge the borewell directly using just layers of differently sized gravel and sand or more sophisticated filtering will be required to remove cleaning chemicals and fertilisers (used in gardens) before it can recharge the borewell ?

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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