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December 26, 2019

Centre holds green signal to Kalasa-Banduri project

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The Mandovi river disputed between Karnataka and Goa (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)

December 19, 2019

Only one out of five river basins in the country resilient to climate change: Study

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Narmada river in Madhya Pradesh (Source: IWP Flickr photos)

December 11, 2019

Locals reject social impact assessment report of Luhri II hydropower project

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Sutlej river in Kinnaur, Himachal Pradesh (Image source: Sanyam Bahga, Wikipedia)

December 6, 2019

Holistic approach needed to clean the Ganga

A report by the India Rivers Forum highlights the need to focus further than the main stem of the Ganga river.

Distant snow clad mountains, the smaller hills and the Ganga river (Image: Srimoyee Banerjee, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0)

November 27, 2019

CGWB signs MoU for participatory groundwater management

Policy matters this week

An irrigation well at Randullabad, Maharashtra (Source: India Water Portal on Flickr)

November 18, 2019

Manual scavenging persists in India due to weak enforcement of laws

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Illegal sand mining led to 193 deaths in two years, says report

News this week Swati Bansal posted 3 days 10 hours ago

Sand mining on the banks of Tapti (Source: IWP Flickr photos)

NGT orders states to designate nodal agencies for restoring water bodies

Policy matters this week Swati Bansal posted 3 days 10 hours ago

Gharisar lake in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan (Source: IWP Flickr photos)

India now has 41 Ramsar sites, with two more wetlands added to the list

Policy matters this week Swati Bansal posted 2 weeks 2 days ago

Lonar Sarovar lake Maharastra (Source: Wikipedia Commons)

Jalyukt Shivar Abhiyan a low impact, high expenditure scheme: CAG

Policy matters this week Swati Bansal posted 2 months 1 week ago

Deepening work in progress under the Jalyukt Shivar Abhiyan (Source: Ravindra Pomane)

Environmentalists voice concerns against the draft EIA notification 2020

Policy matters this week Swati Bansal posted 4 months 3 weeks ago

Work in progress in coal mines in Jharsuguda (Image source: IWP Flickr album)

UP tops in providing employment under MGNREGS

Policy matters this week Swati Bansal posted 5 months 1 week ago

MGNREGS helps to reduce rural distress in times of Covid-19 (Source: IWP Flickr photos)

Dams spell doom for freshwater fish

A global study finds that freshwater fish suffer more due to fragmentation and loss of connectivity of rivers due to building of dams. aartikelkar posted 5 months 2 weeks ago

Dams can threaten biodiversity (Image Source: India Water Portal)

Railway stations to be categorised based on wastewater generation

Policy matters this week Swati Bansal posted 5 months 3 weeks ago

A wastewater treatment plant in Bengaluru (Image source: Vishwanath Srikantaiah)

Northeast fights Covid-19

While Northeast appears to be better off than the rest of India in the number of Covid cases, how are migrants from the North East coping? aartikelkar posted 5 months 3 weeks ago