Amita Bhaduri

India needs to wake up to severe air pollution

With each new report, the number of polluted cities in India is increasing Amita Bhaduri posted 11 months ago

According to a Greenpeace India report released on January 21, 2020, 80 per cent of the country's cities are polluted by national standards (Image: Max Pixel, License CC0)

Transforming wall paintings into speaking walls

An innovative initiative for awareness building and communication on water quality issues Amita Bhaduri posted 11 months ago

Fluoride contamination is leaving villagers crippled, while authorities struggle to find solutions. (Image: India Water Portal)

Revival of Dohas in tribal Madhya Pradesh

Nala widening and deepening to increase water storage and recharge capacity of the stream Amita Bhaduri posted 11 months ago

Dohas constructed in a stream in Dindori district. (Image: Action for Social Advancement)

Behaviour change by design, not by accident

Design processes if followed diligently can lead to robust interventions that have an effective impact Amita Bhaduri posted 11 months ago

Total Sanitation Campaign program of the Government of India (Image: UNICEF and Department of Drinking Water Supply, GoI)

Lift irrigation cooperatives provide irrigation to tribal drylands

Existing government schemes and programmes offer good potential for scale-up these cooperatives in various states Amita Bhaduri posted 11 months ago

Simalaghasi check dam across Panam river, Dahod constructed by NM Sadguru Water and Development Foundation (Image: NM Sadguru Water and Development Foundation)

How Paani Foundation harnesses the power of communication for social transformation

Committed to use the power of all forms of communication to bring about behavioral change and transformation at scale Amita Bhaduri posted 11 months 1 week ago

Villagers participating in shramdaan for making watershed structures (Image: Paani Foundation)

Desilting their way to water sufficiency

Augmenting tank storage has good impact on the livelihood options of the poor and the marginalised. Amita Bhaduri posted 11 months 1 week ago

The village pond after the rehabilitation (Image: FES)

Learning about safe water practices and solutions

Safe water learning cards being used to train a wide spectrum of stakeholders Amita Bhaduri posted 11 months 1 week ago

Different combinations of safe water learning cards can be customised for a session based on the target audience (Image: INREM)

Tiny bytes of safe water education

How safe water learning cards can be further contextualized for training the frontline workers Amita Bhaduri posted 11 months 1 week ago

Dividing complex issues into neat modular flash cards (Image: INREM)

Kudrati kheti (natural farming) - A manual in Hindi

Farming the natural way - going back to the age old traditions and practices Amita Bhaduri posted 11 months 1 week ago

Study calls for securing water sustainability in Chennai

Best practices for holistic urban water management in Chennai Metropolitan Area Amita Bhaduri posted 11 months 1 week ago

These bright plastic jugs are ubiquitous in Chennai and Tamil Nadu. (Image: McKay Savage, Flickr Commons; CC BY 2.0)

Managing water commons through fishing cooperatives

The experience of the Foundation for Ecological Security in tribal Mandla, Madhya Pradesh Amita Bhaduri posted 11 months 1 week ago

Fish harvesting by Changariya fishing cooperative, Mandla, Madhya Pradesh (Image: Foundation for Ecological Security)

Diversion-based irrigation systems

Experience of Aga Khan Rural Support Programme (India) in revitalizing the traditional phad irrigation system in hilly tribal villages of Western Madhya Pradesh Amita Bhaduri posted 11 months 1 week ago

Community members contribute voluntary labour required for laying the pipeline network and tank construction (Image: Anjali Aggarwal)

Reviving traditional water harvesting structures

A CSO-led holistic tank rehabilitation initiative launched in 2017 to restore the Chandela and Bundela tanks to their ancient glory Amita Bhaduri posted 11 months 2 weeks ago

Kishanpura tank, Tikamgarh district, Madhya Pradesh (Image: Strategy document BIWAL)

Gender-sensitive water management: A cornerstone for equitable outcomes

Need to place "gender" at the centre of both international and national water and sanitation agenda Amita Bhaduri posted 11 months 2 weeks ago

Women fetching water in Rajasthan (Image: Wikimedia Commons)

Study indicates no uranium in Kerala’s drinking water

MG University conducted the analyses of water sources across the state Amita Bhaduri posted 11 months 3 weeks ago

Drinking water sources can be contaminated with uranium to an extent by certain anthropogenic activities (Image: Pxfuel)

Mobilising communities against encroachment of water bodies

Pushing urban local governments to take adequate steps to protect water bodies Amita Bhaduri posted 11 months 3 weeks ago

Tapan Dighi (Image: Tapan Dighi Bachao Facebook Page)

Proactive action on green cooling to deal with the climate crisis

India’s decision to ratify the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol is a milestone in green cooling and will contribute significantly to climate action, says iFOREST Amita Bhaduri posted 11 months 3 weeks ago

Edited NASA PR image showing the ozone hole for 2014 over the south pole. Red is bad, blue is good, e.g., red means not as much ozone as blue. (Image: Stuart Rankin; CC BY-NC 2.0)

Equipping communities to plan land and water conservation initiatives

Use of digital tools for implementing natural resources management at scale in rural India Amita Bhaduri posted 11 months 3 weeks ago

Digital planning tools like CLART can go a long way in achieving better land-use outcomes (Image: Foundation for Ecological Security)

Barriers to organic farming: Experience of Kansari Organics

Government needs to switch subsidies and investments from chemical agriculture to the promotion of sustainable agriculture Amita Bhaduri posted 11 months 3 weeks ago

A farmer harvests the season's cauliflower crop near Kullu town, Himachal Pradesh (Image: Neil Palmer, CIAT; Wikimedia Commons)