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Groundwater, an exploited resource (Image Source: India Water Portal)
Friday, 25 October 2019 13:13
Mapping Pune’s aquifers
Groundwater use has doubled in Pune. Comprehensive mapping of groundwater resources and better management and governance is the need of the hour.
A farm pond constructed by Sheshrao Dhurve in Karaghat Kamti village of Madhya Pradesh
Thursday, 24 October 2019 12:33
How farm ponds in Madhya Pradesh are building agricultural resilience
An intern with Watershed Organisation Trust narrates his field experience from the villages of Madhya Pradesh, where farmers are using farm ponds to conserve water.
KJ Joy speaks at a felicitation for the late Professor Ramaswamy Iyer.
Monday, 21 October 2019 10:41
In conversation with K. J. Joy of SOPPECOM
In this interview, Joy talks about his work as an activist working in rural Maharashtra, and how he came to work on water conflicts in India.
Women filling water from a tap (Source: IWP Flickr photos)
Wednesday, 16 October 2019 14:12
Jal Jeevan Mission: States to bear half the cost, local bodies to decide water charges
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Water talk Series at Mumbai (Image Source:Tata Insitute of Social Sciences)
Tuesday, 1 October 2019 11:54
From droughts to floods: India’s tryst with climate extremes
Deconstructing the traditional narrow engineering based policy discourses around floods and droughts and connecting them to social and cultural realities is the need of the hour in India.
Charles Vorosmarty, Chair, COMPASS Initiative, Water Future at the opening plenary on advanced water system assessments to address water security challenges of the 21st century.
Monday, 30 September 2019 12:38
The Water Future Conference in Bangalore: Towards a Sustainable Water Future
The recently concluded 4 day conference in Bangalore looked at the current state of global water resource challenges & future pathways to achieve the SDGs, while ensuring equity in access to all.
  • Coliform contamination and cholera: Deciphering the connection
    Vibrio cholerae is responsible for 100,000 -120,000 deaths annually, worldwide. [1] Commonly found in ponds, rivers and brackish areas, the bacterium finds its way into humans through contaminated food and water. And the result? Cholera. Characterized by severe diarrhea, vomiting and dehydratio...
    seetha@indiawat...posted 5 years 2 months agoread more
  • A 3-year journey from water scarcity to security
    Santosh Gavale, a resident of Manyali village in Umarkhed tehsil of Yavatmal district, is a happy man now. The village, which has faced an increasing water crisis over the years, is now water sufficient because it manages its water resources well and shares it equitably. Santosh managed to do this f...
    aarti kelkar kh...posted 5 years 2 months agoread more
  • A way to minimise agricultural problems in India
    Muneswar and more than 170 farmers in Ambikapur, Chhattisgarh have no regrets after shifting over from traditional agricultural methods of farming to the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) method. Why would they? Most of them have been overwhelmed by the kind of returns they have got compared...
    makarandpurohitposted 5 years 3 months agoread more
  • The pond with a purpose
    The Bhuiyas, a group of people who belong to the Scheduled Castes in Jharkhand and Bihar, have historically been landless foragers -- a fact reflected in their name which means 'of the earth'. During the Bhoodaan movement, a group of Bhuiyas received a small amount of land on the Chhota Nagpur plate...
    chicuposted 5 years 3 months agoread more
  • Studying springs: A matter of life and death
    Hydrogeology has, before this, been considered a highly specialised field known only to dedicated academics. Today, this arcane science is being studied by villagers and development workers across India's mountain regions. The reason for this surge of interest? It is, quite simply, a matter of life ...
    chicuposted 5 years 3 months agoread more
  • Citizens charter on drinking water and sanitation before Union Budget
    A National Convention on Union Budget 2015-16 by the Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability, New Delhi held on 8th and 9th January 2015 brought together around 200 Civil Society Organisations from more than 20 States to discuss the policy asks for water and sanitation sector. Civil society ...
    Amita Bhaduriposted 5 years 3 months agoread more
  • Droughts in Maharashtra: Lack of management or vagaries of climate change?
    Recent news has been flooded with reports of the severe drought situation in the Marathwada and Vidarbha regions of Maharashtra. Even more shocking are the reports of large-scale suicides by farmers due to crop losses. Although the government has announced a relief package for drought-affected area...
    aarti kelkar kh...posted 5 years 5 months agoread more
  • ‘Blue’ print for a model village
    On October 11, 2014, the Government of India launched an ambitious scheme for village development – the Saansad Aadarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY). The scheme requires ‘saansads’ or elected MPs to convert 3 villages in their constituency into ‘Adarsh Grams’ or model villages worthy of replication ...
    swatiposted 5 years 5 months agoread more
  • Poisonous encounters in Maharashtra
    A decade ago, Jamwadi village in Yavatmal, Maharashtra, was a famous tourist attraction due to its beautiful lake. Now, there is no lake to speak of thanks to the Raymond factory in Yavatmal. Wastewaster from the factory flows untreated into the lake, which is located 15 kms away. This has seve...
    makarandpurohitposted 5 years 6 months agoread more
  • Tribals in Jharkhand plan for water security
    "Clean water", emphasized the woman. "'Close to the house. Whenever it is needed", she added. She was speaking at a village meeting organised to determine what was needed to make the village water secure. The discussions had begun with an attempt to define water security. The leader of the gro...
    chicuposted 5 years 7 months agoread more
  • Scheme to develop 2,379 villages in the next 5 years launched
    Centre launches the Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana The Prime Minister has launched the Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY), which aims to develop 2,379 villages across the nation into model villages in the next 5 years. These villages will undergo an integrated development in multiple areas like agr...
    Anonymous (not verified)posted 5 years 7 months agoread more
  • 3000 MW Dibang mega project approved without public consultation
    Dibang hydel project gets Centre's nod The Centre has decided to construct the 3000 MW Dibang Hydroelectric Project in Arunachal Pradesh without carying out any public consultation or impact study. On request from the new Government, the Expert Appraisal Committee has reconsidered the environmental...
    swatiposted 5 years 8 months agoread more
  • Uttarakhand submits Rs. 9478 crore Ganga clean-up plan proposal
    Uttarakhand Government submits to Centre the Rs 9,478 crore Ganga Action Plan The Uttarakhand Government has submitted an Action Plan worth Rs 9,478 crore, for cleaning the Ganga river from Gaumukh to Haridwar. The Plan proposes to set up new sewage systems at 132 locations and new solid waste mana...
    swatiposted 5 years 8 months agoread more
  • "Ultra Mega Power" to destroy!
    Cheyyur, a town 100 km from Chennai in Kanchipuram, has been identified as the site for a 4000 MW Ultra Mega Power Plant (UMPP) by the Government of Tamil Nadu. Ultra Mega Power Projects are a series of ambitious power projects planned by the Government of India where each UMPP is said to have ...
    Divya Nposted 5 years 8 months agoread more
  • 50% of MGNREGS reserved for water conservation work
    50% of MGNREGS work should be for improving water conservation: Government In the wake of drought-like conditions in the country, the Rural Development Minister has ordered the states to undertake 50% of work under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) to...
    swatiposted 5 years 8 months agoread more
  • Well revival effort sees many other benefits
    The name of a place can tell one much about its history. Take Mokla talab, a village 62 km southeast of Udaipur for example. Mokla means sufficient in Rajasthani and talab means pond. The village was named after its overflowing talab. But what happens when the talaab is overflowi...
    Amita Bhaduriposted 5 years 8 months agoread more
  • Irrigation systems of Himachal threatened by hydropower projects
    Pro-dam lobby has long praised the small or micro hydropower projects, especially run-of-the-river units as least damaging. But both the developer/s of such projects and the government seem to have overlooked an important aspect: its impact on Kuhls, the traditional irrigation system of Himachal Pra...
    sabitakaushalposted 5 years 10 months agoread more
  • Clean water: Courtesy sand and microbes
    Every year, nearly 600,000 children in India die of illnesses associated with unclean drinking water [1]. Inspite of this, 2 out of every 3 households still do not treat their drinking water [2] and half of the rural water supply, where 70 percent of India’s population lives, is routinel...
    sabitakaushalposted 5 years 10 months agoread more
  • A water supply system that even Delhi would envy
     Visitors and the Uttarakhand Tourism Department liken the mountain to 'devbhoomi' or the heavens but it isn't often that a villager of the area echoes those sentiments. Most of them are weary of the unending struggle to live in harmony with those steep slopes that make all manner of infra...
    chicuposted 5 years 10 months agoread more
  • Need data on water usage from 2000 to 2010 In India by different sectors?
    Hello,I would like to get data on water usage from 2000 to 2010 in India by different sectors like Agriculture, Rural, Domestic, Industries and etc. Please help
    Anonymous (not verified)posted 5 years 11 months agoread more

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Posted By : mesw
Posted Date : Tue, 2017-08-29 14:46
Aspects of the census data to consider when using it as a data source for rural water supply.

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Posted By : swati
Posted Date : Tue, 2017-08-22 21:55
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Committee rejects UP's plan for a religious hi-tech smart city 

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Posted Date : Mon, 2017-08-21 09:38
Transforming barren lands to lush green landscape is one of the many works of WOTR that won them the Land for Life Award 2017 from the United Nations Convention on Combating Desertification.

Marathwada in Maharashtra is an arid region with rainfall of less than 750 mm per year. Most villages in the region face acute water scarcity. Kachner in Aurangabad was no exception. 

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Posted Date : Thu, 2017-08-17 16:10
Marathwada village comes up with a novel idea to tackle water scarcity—water budget for each household. The result is for everyone to see.

Till about a year ago, 52-year-old Kisan Jite would often wake up to his wife Sarla and other village women squabbling over who would fill their buckets first from the only well in Golegaon village. This fight would then proceed to the three water tankers allotted by the zilla parishad for the entire village with a population of 2750 people. Some days, Jite himself would queue up behind the tankers.

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Posted By : swati
Posted Date : Wed, 2017-08-16 06:09
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Govt says out of 445 river stretches, 275 are polluted

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Posted Date : Thu, 2017-07-27 19:59
A video tells the story of a poor farmer who, through effective water conservation methods, became rich and a role model to other villagers.

Vasant Baburao Parkale, a 52-year-old farmer, has become a role model for many farmers in the drought-prone Marathwada region. His determination and the will to excel in life have helped him to transform his dreams into reality.

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Posted Date : Mon, 2017-07-24 20:03
A study finds faulty agricultural policies and practices and not just indebtedness to blame for rising suicides among farmers.

Over the last few months, we saw protests by distressed farmers of Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and other states over farming crisis and farmer suicides. In what seemed like a knee-jerk reaction, many state governments announced farm loan waivers without thinking if it would actually help the farmers. 

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Posted By : swati
Posted Date : Tue, 2017-06-06 08:16
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India's groundwater crisis: Gujarat's solar irrigation cooperative embarks on a solution

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Posted By : Amita Bhaduri
Posted Date : Sat, 2017-06-03 07:58
The water of East Kali is heavily polluted. It would hopefully change with the NGT taking notice of it.

Rampura, situated in Bulandshahr district in western Uttar Pradesh, is one of the 1,200 villages on the banks of the 300-km long East Kali, a tributary of the Ganges. The river is named after goddess Kali who, according to the Hindu mythology, is fierce and fights evil by ingesting it.

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Posted By : swati
Posted Date : Tue, 2017-05-16 10:20
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Centre urges states to gear up for possible monsoon failure

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