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Groundwater
The abandoned waters of the Red Fort 'baoli'
Posted on 12 Mar, 2016 02:13 PMThe Red Fort, located along the western banks of the Yamuna, was built by Mughal emperor Shahjahan when he moved his capital to Delhi from Agra and laid the foundations of Shahjahanabad, the seventh city of Delhi. Since then, the river has changed course but it’s proximity to the fort ensured that there was abundant water supply as well as protection for the city.
![Red Fort: A UNESCO World Heritage Site, hides an unusual L shaped 'baoli' in its midst.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/trial.jpg?itok=AMlzj_w2)
Bundelkhand women forge friendships for water
Posted on 07 Mar, 2016 03:09 PMSirkoo, a 39 year old woman in Bundelkhand, Uttar Pradesh, walked 8 km every day to fetch water. As a woman, it was obviously her responsibility to ensure the household's water availability. This put an additional stress on her already depleted health as well as time--until she decided to tackle the issue head on.
![Water Literacy campaign for Jal Sahelis (Source: Parmarth Samaj Sevi Sansthan)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/js.png?itok=eEEhUKi_)
Need for National Legislation on water announced during Jal Manthan
Posted on 01 Mar, 2016 12:47 PMLarge-scale people participation in important schemes concludes Jal Manthan
![Gravity-based pipe irrigation in Uttarakhand (Source: IWP Flickr Photo)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/13941544052_f0e00011b7_z.jpg?itok=6uCmghPs)
Jharkhand's octogenarian water warrior
Posted on 28 Feb, 2016 01:39 PMIt was 1961. Simon Oraon, a Class IV school drop-out began his journey against drought in Bedo, a tribal block of Ranchi, Jharkhand. An idealistic young man, he along with his fellow villagers began constructing earthen dams to capture rainwater for recharging groundwater.
![A water body revived at Bedo, Ranchi](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/bedo-water-body.jpg?itok=AQS1hghD)
4 billion global population affected by severe water scarcity: NASA
Posted on 23 Feb, 2016 12:16 PMGroundwater levels are reducing all over the world: NASA analysis
![A tubewell in Rajasthan (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/2971048985_7ded9f8fed_z.jpg?itok=eILAfkY1)
Saved by tanks: The story of Puducherry’s Bahour commune
Posted on 16 Feb, 2016 10:13 AMThe East Coast of India is very much unlike its western counterpart both in terms of physiography and climatology.
![The Manapet tank in Bahour has an ayacut of around 110 acres, most of which is now urbanised (Image: Seetha Gopalakrishnan, IWP)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/24937329615_8f42b8b924_z.jpg?itok=7YlOGpGH)
Pumping up hopes the solar way
Posted on 28 Jan, 2016 03:29 PMHaryana's agriculture sector uses seven lakh tubewells, most of which are connected to the grid as the state has a policy of providing highly subsidised electricity to farmers costing Rs. 6200 crore a year. As a result, groundwater exploitation is rampant.
![Better incentives needs to be provided to farmers to use solar pumps for tubewells in Haryana](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/image_14.jpg?itok=8Ww2QUZ-)
UP Coca Cola plant in trouble again
Posted on 26 Jan, 2016 02:03 PMCPCB finds Coca Cola plant in Hapur pumping toxic water into a pond
![Coca Cola bottling plant (Source: S. Subramanium via Hindu)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/coca_cola_bottling_1629227g_0_1.jpg?itok=mMsWDFAN)
Alarm bells ring for Delhi’s groundwater
Posted on 25 Jan, 2016 01:19 PMDelhi, home to 16.75 million people, is in the grip of a major water crisis. Statistics by the Delhi Jal Board for the year 2011 suggest that the water deficit stands at about 250 million gallons per day with the supply being 830 million gallons per day.
![Residents say they are forced to flout the groundwater extraction norms with illegal groundwater pumps in Narela in North-west Delhi due to insufficient and poor quality of water supplied.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/residents.jpg?itok=KvYNHZMG)
Can recurring droughts in Maharashtra be offset by participatory groundwater management (PGWM)?
Posted on 20 Jan, 2016 09:02 AMMaharashtra is the fourth state following Karnataka, Chattisgarh, and Madhya Pradesh to seek out relief from the Union government thanks to more than 15,000 of its villages across Marathwada and parts of Western Maharashtra reeling under drought in 2015 [1].
![The role of PGWM to deal with droughts in Maharashtra (Source: IWP Flickr photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/20150902_100418.jpg?itok=sjoH-2S3)