Water Management

People in remote hamlets left out by previous schemes like Swajal and Sector Wide Approach Program of the Uttarakhand Jal Nigam and Uttarakhand Jal Sansthan longed for household-level piped water supply for drinking and domestic purposes. People’s Science Institute (PSI), a not for profit organisation based in Dehradun took up a drinking water and sanitation program with the active participation of local User Water and Sanitation Sub Committees (UWSSCs) through the support of The Hans Foundation in 2016.

Government prepares strict directives to prevent groundwater wastage

A civic body frees a river instead of concretising it, for the first time

Floods coupled with erosion increase the woes of Bihar

In the midst of the increasing havoc of floods in Bihar, people are also fearful of erosion. The rising rivers and the speedy flow of water has caused erosion at several places in the region forcing people inhabiting the place since a long time to migrate to safer places.. 

India’s Himalayan rivers have been a cradle of civilisational development and a centre for faith and culture for ages. Ganga being a fertile basin has been a significant contributor to our agricultural economy as well as our river-based agrarian development. It cannot be visualised simply as a single river flowing through the northern states, but as a complex system of tributaries, main river and geological balances in alluvial geography.

Indore once again tops the Swachh Survekshan 2020 in the cleanest city category