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May 19, 2024
How do your everyday choices impact the world's resources?
The surprising connection between Wikipedia, beaches, and your water bottle.
A top down image of a lush green forest in a sacred grove in Meghalaya (Image created by: Sreechand Tavva)
May 15, 2024
बेहिसाब भूजल दोहन भूकंप के खतरे को विनाशकारी बना देगा
बेहिसाब भूजल दोहन भूकंप के खतरे को विनाशकारी बना देगा। हाल फिलहाल के दो अध्ययन हमारे लिए खतरे का संकेत दे रहे हैं। एक अध्ययन पूर्वी हिमालयी क्षेत्र में भूकंप के आवृत्ति और तीब्रता बढ़ने की बात कर रहा है। तो दूसरा भूजल का अत्यधिक दोहन से दिल्ली-NCR क्षेत्र के कुछ भाग भविष्य में धंसने की संभावना की बात कर रहा है। दोनों अध्ययनों को जोड़ कर अगर पढ़ा जाए तस्वीर का एक नया पहलू सामने आता है।
भूजल का अत्यधिक दोहन
May 12, 2024
Atal Bhujal Yojana: Bridging ambition with reality
Rethinking community engagement in the Atal Bhujal Yojana
Towards sustainable groundwater management (Image: IWMI)
May 8, 2024
Ecosystem-based approach to water management: Key to Karnataka’s water future
What is the ecosystem based approach to water management? How can it help in solving the water woes of states in the Deccan Plateau?
An ecosystem based approach to water management (Image Source: India Water Portal)
March 13, 2024
Valuing groundwater: A priority for India
As cities such as Bangalore grapple with the water crisis, understanding the value of conserving groundwater to prevent this from happening in the future is urgently needed!
Groundwater, a threatened resource (Image Source: India Water Portal)
December 30, 2023
भूजल में आर्सेनिक, फ्लोराइड के विषाक्तता मामले पर एनजीटी का राज्यों, केंद्रशासित प्रदेशों को नोटिस
भूजल में आर्सेनिक, फ्लोराइड के मामले में एनजीटी ने "जिम्मेदारी से भागने" के लिए 28 राज्यों, केंद्रशासित प्रदेशों, सीजीडब्ल्यूए को नोटिस जारी किया।
भूजल में आर्सेनिक,फ्लोराइड जैसे जहरीले तत्व
How do your everyday choices impact the world's resources?
The surprising connection between Wikipedia, beaches, and your water bottle.
Sreechand Tavva
Posted on 19 May, 2024 08:41 PM

What do forests, air, and groundwater have in common?
A top down image of a lush green forest in a sacred grove in Meghalaya (Image created by: Sreechand Tavva)
Irrigation dominated areas and the risk of gall bladder cancer in Bihar
This study found that increase in well and canal irrigated areas was associated with a rise in the gall bladder cancer cases in Bihar due to presence of cancer causing contaminants in irrigation water.
Maiko Sakamoto
Arun Kumar
Deokrishna Kumar Choudhary
Akhouri Bishwapriya
Ashok Ghosh
Posted on 19 May, 2024 03:13 AM

Rising gall bladder cancer in India
Groundwater irrigation and the risk of gall bladder cancer in Bihar. Image used for representation purposes only (Image Source: India Water Portal
Atal Bhujal Yojana: Bridging ambition with reality
Rethinking community engagement in the Atal Bhujal Yojana
Archisman Mitra
Suchiradipta Bhattacharjee
Garima Taneja
Posted on 12 May, 2024 09:24 AM

As Amol Singh Yadav, a folk artist hailing from Dasania village in the Bundelkhand region of Madhya Pradesh, stood up to sing his song about the Atal Bhujal Yojana (ABY), one could imagine how ambitious and potentially transformative the ABY scheme is for the management of groundwater at the community level.
Towards sustainable groundwater management (Image: IWMI)
Ecosystem-based approach to water management: Key to Karnataka’s water future
What is the ecosystem based approach to water management? How can it help in solving the water woes of states in the Deccan Plateau?
Arjuna Srinidhi
Posted on 08 May, 2024 03:14 PM

The looming water scarcity in the Deccan Plateau states
An ecosystem based approach to water management (Image Source: India Water Portal)
Shaping river policies with updated environmental flow methods
Policy matters this fortnight
Amita Bhaduri
Posted on 01 May, 2024 09:30 AM

CWRDM to formulate implementing a revised approach to environmental flow calculations
Water necessary to maintain the ecological integrity of rivers (Image: pickpik)
Mapping groundwater in drought prone Marathwada
Mapping groundwater potential zones (GWPZ) can greatly help in efficient groundwater management through careful use and identifying areas for construction of recharge structures to improve groundwater resources in the region.
Uttam Pawar
Worawit Suppawimut
Upaka Rathnayake
Posted on 12 Apr, 2024 10:16 AM

As high as  600 million Indians suffer from high to very high water stress because of insufficient availability of freshwater.
Groundwater, a valuable resource (Image Source: India Water Portal)
A Public Information System to map unplanned urbanisation in Bengaluru unveiled
News this fortnight
Aarti Kelkar Khambete
Posted on 22 Mar, 2024 09:10 AM

Scientists from IISc unveil a Public Information System to map unplanned urbanisation in Bengaluru  
The growing concrete jungle in Indian cities (Image Source: Amita Bhaduri)
Can traditional tanks help Bengaluru revive its declining groundwater levels?
A study that examined the contribution of tanks in groundwater recharge in urban Bengaluru found that presence of more impermeable surfaces in the city led to some amount of groundwater recharge from tanks, but was influenced by location, area concerned, water level fluctuations and alternative recharge sources available.
Bentje Brauns
Somsubhra Chattopadhyay
Dan J. Lapworth
Sian E. Loveless
Alan M. MacDonald
Andrew A. McKenzie
Muddu Sekhar
Siva Naga Venkat Nara
Veena Srinivasan
Posted on 19 Mar, 2024 11:21 PM

Can traditional tanks help Bengaluru in reviving its groundwater levels and in preventing the growing water crisis that the city is currently facing?

Traditional tanks in South India
Tanks of Karnataka (Image Source: IWP Flickr photos)
Valuing groundwater: A priority for India
As cities such as Bangalore grapple with the water crisis, understanding the value of conserving groundwater to prevent this from happening in the future is urgently needed!
Aarti Kelkar Khambete
Posted on 13 Mar, 2024 06:06 PM

Urban India is sucking groundwater at frightening rates
Groundwater, a threatened resource (Image Source: India Water Portal)
Environmental fund misuse: NGT penalises CPCB, criticises ministry's response
Policy matters this fortnight
Amita Bhaduri
Posted on 31 Dec, 2023 05:41 PM

NGT rebukes CPCB's 'gross misuse' of environmental funds
The NGT highlighted the diversion of environmental compensation funds for unauthorised purposes (Image: Needpix)
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