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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 Mandovi river disputed between Karnataka and Goa (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)
Thursday, 26 December 2019 14:08
Centre holds green signal to Kalasa-Banduri project
Policy matters this week
Sutlej river in Kinnaur, Himachal Pradesh (Image source: Sanyam Bahga, Wikipedia)
Wednesday, 11 December 2019 12:05
Locals reject social impact assessment report of Luhri II hydropower project
News this week
Image credit: WaterAid/Prashanth Vishwanathan
Wednesday, 4 December 2019 17:33
In wake of climate change, prioritise and invest in water security and clean drinking water
To adapt well & build resilience, climate change strategies need to factor in efforts towards water security, writes Vanita Suneja, Regional Advocacy Manager (South Asia), WaterAid.
Image credit: Citizen Matters
Monday, 18 November 2019 14:49
BWSSB’s workforce woefully inadequate, says Chairman Tushar Girinath
Bangalore's water utility is understaffed, under financed and unable to service the city's water needs.
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.
  • Periodic storage-discharge data from various reservoirs and dams in India
    Hello, Where can we get the periodic storage - discharge data of different reservoirs? CWC reports only elevation and storage information for around 90-91 reservoirs without discharge data from their respective dams. Is there a common portal where we can find elevation-storage-discharge information...
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  • A reflection on multi-faceted droughts in Bundelkhand region
    Drought conditions are not new to Bundelkhand. The acute situation now is a convergence of three types of droughts – meteorological, agricultural and hydrological - cumulatively coinciding as witnessed in Nunagar village in Panna district, Madhya Pradesh. We saw hundreds of vessels queuing up at t...
    Amita Bhaduriposted 2 weeks 4 days agoread more
  • Pumping groundwater to harnessing rainfall: A tale of two states
    Groundwater depletion, a growing challenge for India Groundwater depletion is assuming serious proportions in India with extraction having increased from less than one million in 1960 to almost 24 million in 2014. Irrigation consumes as high as 90 percent of the groundwater extracted annually, whil...
    aarti kelkar kh...posted 2 weeks 4 days agoread more
  • Digital tools to tackle water scarcity
    India has the highest population of any country in the world without access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation. According to WaterAid and the World Health Organisation (WHO), 163 million people still lack access to safe water and millions still defecate in the open. Global engineering a...
    Amita Bhaduriposted 2 weeks 5 days agoread more
  • India to have more rains, floods and warm days in the coming century: Report
    India's first climate change assessment report warns of heavy rains, more floods and warmers days According to the report titled 'Climate change assessment over Indian region', the country will experience warmer days and nights along with frequent heavy rainfall spells causing floods till the end o...
    Swati Bansalposted 3 weeks 3 days agoread more
  • Priorities for the Revised National Water Policy
    The Department of Water Resources, under the Ministry of Jal Shakti, has constituted a drafting committee on 5 November 2019 to revise the existing National Water Policy (NWP). Dr. Mihir Shah, a renowned water expert and a former member of the Planning Commission is chairing the committee. The commi...
    aarti kelkar kh...posted 1 month 1 week agoread more
  • Agricultural crop substitution can bridge rural and urban water needs
    With 85 percent of water being utilized for agriculture in India, a gradual shift in agriculture towards water-intensive crops have exposed the country to an increased threat of water crisis. The erratic nature of monsoons adds to this exposure and calls for judicious use of water resources, especia...
    Amita Bhaduriposted 1 month 2 weeks agoread more
  • Cyclone Amphan wreaks havoc in West Bengal
    Cyclone Amphan causes widespread destruction in West Bengal The strongest cyclone since 1982, Cyclone Amphan has caused severe destruction in southern districts of West Bengal, Kolkata and Sunderbans. Making a landfall with a wind intensity of 165-175 kilometres per hour, gusting up to 185 kmph, th...
    Swati Bansalposted 1 month 3 weeks agoread more
  • Flushing away Covid-19, the Mumbai way!
    Slums, fast growing Covid-19 hotspots! Slums are fast emerging as Covid-19 hotspots in India, especially in Mumbai, in Maharashtra state, which has been showing the highest rise in Covid-19 cases. While 17 percent of urban households stay in slums in India, 42 percent of the households in Mumb...
    aarti kelkar kh...posted 1 month 3 weeks agoread more
  • Centre to ensure safe drinking water and scale up activities during monsoon, under JJM
    Under JJM, Centre to ensure safe drinking water and scale up activities during monsoon The Centre has advised states to use 25 percent of annual allocation, termed as flexi-funds, under Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) for implementing measures including chemical treatment of water so as to ensure safe dri...
    Swati Bansalposted 2 months 2 weeks agoread more
  • Providing safe drinking water, in difficult times!
    Piramal Sarvajal, seeded by the Piramal Foundation in 2008, is a mission driven social enterprise which designs and deploys innovative solutions for creating affordable access to safe drinking water in underserved areas. Sarvajal aims at developing technologies and business practices in the safe dri...
    aarti kelkar kh...posted 2 months 3 weeks agoread more
  • Health Ministry advises states to ensure adequate water supply in rural areas
    Centre advises states to ensure adequate water supply in rural areas during lockdown As frequent hand washing with soap and water is the most-effective measure to control the spread of coronavirus, the Health Ministry has issued an advisory to states to ensure adequate supply of potable water durin...
    Swati Bansalposted 3 months 4 days agoread more
  • Lockdown to cause severe water stress in summers
    Summer of 2020 could suffer from severe water stress due to lockdown As most of the municipal and panchayat administration are justifiably involved in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, they are unable to focus on the water complaints that have started to pour in with the advent of summers. M...
    Swati Bansalposted 3 months 4 days agoread more
  • Frequently asked questions (FAQs) on Jal Jeevan Mission
    On 15 August, 2019, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM), a time-bound mission-mode programme, to enable all rural household to have functional household tap connection (FHTC) i.e. Har Ghar Nal Se Jal by 2024. The goal of JJM is to provide FHTC to every househ...
    Swati Bansalposted 3 months 2 weeks agoread more
  • Clean drinking water: Still a pipe dream for Maharashtra?
    Latur in Maharashtra has been facing acute drinking water scarcity over the last month and has been in news again, and that too, inspite of having piped water connections and a good monsoon this year! Indeed, availability of safe drinking water near the house can provide a number of advantages. It ...
    aarti kelkar kh...posted 3 months 3 weeks agoread more
  • Virtual water and water footprint
    Climate change and water scarcity in India The world is today facing an unprecedented water crisis, both in access and availability. Cape Town in South Africa reached ‘day zero’ water status in 2018. India, according to the NITI Aayog, is facing the worst water crisis in its history, with an es...
    aarti kelkar kh...posted 3 months 4 weeks agoread more
  • In deep water
    In the wake of a scandal revealing that the World Bank may have suppressed knowledge of money for the poor being siphoned off by elites, all eyes are on the Bank to see whether its commitments to the poor hold water. Now, the Bank has a chance to demonstrate its commitment to vulnerable co...
    Amita Bhaduriposted 3 months 4 weeks agoread more
  • Clean water, a crucial weapon to combat COVID -19
    This month has been seeing a different kind of a scare world over, that of the deadly corona virus pandemic that has been spreading rapidly, infecting people and leading to a rising number of deaths in numerous countries. India too is in the line of fire with the total number of active COVID-2019 ca...
    aarti kelkar kh...posted 4 months 7 hours agoread more
  • Jal Jeevan Mission: Will piped water to every household no longer be a pipe dream?
    Millions of Indian women can take up to six trips a day to gather and transport water, which takes up a major part of their day. During scorching summers when many sources dry up, their drudgery gets even worse. Stories of girls dropping out of school to share the burden of carrying water are also n...
    Amita Bhaduriposted 4 months 1 week agoread more
  • Under Har Ghar Nal Se Jal, states to open water testing labs
    DDWS orders states to open up water testing laboratories to the public The Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation (DDWS) has directed the states to open up water testing laboratories to the public, in order to empower people to be able to ascertain the quality of water being provided. The move...
    Swati Bansalposted 4 months 1 week agoread more

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Posted By : Anonymous (not verified)
Posted Date : Sat, 2020-07-11 16:39

Hello,

Where can we get the periodic storage - discharge data of different reservoirs? CWC reports only elevation and storage information for around 90-91 reservoirs without discharge data from their respective dams. Is there a common portal where we can find elevation-storage-discharge information of different reservoirs?

Thanks

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Posted By : Amita Bhaduri
Posted Date : Wed, 2020-07-01 15:10
Alternatives have to be re-adapted to the understanding of droughts in the wake of climate change.

Drought conditions are not new to Bundelkhand. The acute situation now is a convergence of three types of droughts – meteorological, agricultural and hydrological - cumulatively coinciding as witnessed in Nunagar village in Panna district, Madhya Pradesh. We saw hundreds of vessels queuing up at the panchayat well. A closer look revealed that it is not well water that was being collected here, but people were lining up to fetch water from a piped source that is released to the well.

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Posted Date : Wed, 2020-07-01 12:04
Saurashtra, and Vidarbha and Marathwada have similar climatic and aquifer characteristics. Why do the latter suffer from droughts when Saurashtra has been able to improve its groundwater levels?

Groundwater depletion, a growing challenge for India

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Posted By : Amita Bhaduri
Posted Date : Tue, 2020-06-30 08:57
FRANK Water and Arup launch the WASH Connect mobile app and WASH Basins Toolkit to empower local government and communities to jointly manage water resources.

India has the highest population of any country in the world without access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation. According to WaterAid and the World Health Organisation (WHO), 163 million people still lack access to safe water and millions still defecate in the open.

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Posted By : Swati Bansal
Posted Date : Thu, 2020-06-25 07:28
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India's first climate change assessment report warns of heavy rains, more floods and warmers days

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Posted Date : Fri, 2020-06-12 14:55
There is need to evolve a National Water Policy that establishes a framework and pathway to sustainable, efficient and equitable management of surface and groundwater resources.

The Department of Water Resources, under the Ministry of Jal Shakti, has constituted a drafting committee on 5 November 2019 to revise the existing National Water Policy (NWP). Dr. Mihir Shah, a renowned water expert and a former member of the Planning Commission is chairing the committee. The committee has 10 principal members and it is expected that the committee produces a report within six months of its formation.

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Posted By : Amita Bhaduri
Posted Date : Mon, 2020-06-01 14:51
Rural and urban water crisis in India can be addressed through adaptive changes in current agricultural practices, as per a study in Maharashtra by the Indian School of Business.

With 85 percent of water being utilized for agriculture in India, a gradual shift in agriculture towards water-intensive crops have exposed the country to an increased threat of water crisis. The erratic nature of monsoons adds to this exposure and calls for judicious use of water resources, especially in the dry regions. Another factor contributing to this water stress is the rapid increase in urbanization. India’s urban population is expected to grow from 410 million in 2014 to 814 million in 2050 rendering urban water supply as a critical challenge.

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Posted By : Swati Bansal
Posted Date : Wed, 2020-05-27 08:33
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Cyclone Amphan causes widespread destruction in West Bengal

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Posted Date : Sat, 2020-05-23 11:55
While Mumbai slums have emerged as Covid-19 hotspots, Triratna Prerna Mandal (TPM) is moving ahead with conviction, to tackle the sanitation situation and ‘flush the virus’!

Slums, fast growing Covid-19 hotspots!

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Posted By : Swati Bansal
Posted Date : Mon, 2020-05-04 15:13
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Under JJM, Centre to ensure safe drinking water and scale up activities during monsoon

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