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Household water filter use in Ahmedabad
Posted on 21 Oct, 2015 12:09 PM76 million people lack access to safe drinking water in India thus increasing their risk to mortality from water-borne diseases such as diarrhoea, typhoid, and cholera. The poor are much more likely to be affected by unsafe drinking water than those who are financially better off.
![Safe drinking water, a scarce resource (Source: Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/water_1_3.jpg?itok=mm965vj4)
Implementing watershed development projects in Andhra Pradesh: Lessons learnt
Posted on 16 Oct, 2015 06:25 PMGovernment supported watershed development projects in India underwent a paradigm shift in 1994 with the advent of guidelines for the Watershed Development Programme as well as a number of pathbreaking guidelines that introduced innovative protocols that placed a strong emphasis on community participation. Development fun
![Watershed development, the need of the hour (Source: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/climate_change_4.jpg?itok=W5kuO_J0)
Kerala's waters polluted by perchlorate
Posted on 14 Oct, 2015 09:59 PMPerchlorate is a chemical that is extensively used in the arms and ammunition industry.
![Water contamination and health](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/open_well_8.jpg?itok=dmVSozLG)
Half of Amritsar's drinking water samples contaminated
Posted on 14 Oct, 2015 03:49 PMAccording to a United Nations Children’s Fund Resource report, 70% of India’s water supply is polluted with sewage effluents. It also ranks very low at 120 among the 122 nations in terms of quality of water available to its citizens.
![Safe drinking water, a scarce resource (Source: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/punjab_water_0.jpg?itok=rpjCL0SI)
India's urban water systems: Challenges and way forward
Posted on 13 Oct, 2015 07:03 PMCurrent evidence shows that the number of people living in urban areas in India is expected to more than double and grow to around 800 million by 2050, which will pose unprecedented challenges for water management in the country. The paper titled 'Urban water systems in India: Typologies and hypothesis' published in the
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Dengue blurs the line between rich and poor
Posted on 05 Oct, 2015 02:23 PMShantabai, a domestic worker in a number of buildings in Pune says, "See didi, nowadays you can find dengue-causing mosquitoes even in posh buildings but people there do not allow Corporation workers to come and spray inside. Even Bollywood actors are being told to take care".
![The dengue-causing Aedes aegypti mosquito (Source: Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/malaria_2.jpg?itok=dQXg_Dv2)
The connection between gender and safe sanitation in rural India
Posted on 02 Oct, 2015 04:28 PMSanitation coverage in India continues to display marked disparities in access to safe toilet facilities between urban and rural populations across economic and social groups despite some impressive gains made.
![Health and sanitation, the linkages (Source: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/women_and_toilets.jpg?itok=hxsrx72t)
Community involvement key to successful water quality interventions
Posted on 20 Sep, 2015 10:07 PMRecent evidence shows that as high as 95% of diarrheal deaths among children under the age of 5 can be prevented by water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) related interventions that include handwashing, proper excreta disposal and most importantly improved water quality.
![Water quality and health impacts (Source: Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/water_1_2.jpg?itok=M4OO95jB)
Local water storage in the Hindu Kush Himalayas
Posted on 07 Sep, 2015 10:11 PMThe Hindu Kush Himalayan region (HKH) is the source of 10 major rivers and is often referred to as the water tower of Asia. However, communities living in this region and downstream face frequent seasonal water scarcity and flooding due to high variations in rainfall.
![Kuhls carry glacial melt to fields for irrigation (Source: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/kuhls.jpg?itok=dRxsKayq)
Access to water data: Implications for transboundary relations in the Ganges river basin
Posted on 05 Sep, 2015 12:21 PMCitizens right to access information on water, climate and environmental issues
![A view of the Sharada river at Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh (Source: Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/sharada_river_up_0.jpg?itok=B3RgdKdB)