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NGT gets strict over notification of wetlands
Posted on 30 Jul, 2016 11:53 PMNGT orders CWRA to meet every month for identification of wetlands
![A wetland in Assam. (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/11799415546_e40abe974f_z.jpg?itok=3N3TBXXj)
Ministries spar over hydel project
Posted on 03 Jul, 2016 04:59 PMMinistries reach no consensus over Uttarakhand hydel project
![Downstream of ManeribhaliII Barrage at Uttarkashi (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/3217293419_87efebb0b9_z.jpg?itok=cZYKyb9V)
Climate change: When past presents itself
Posted on 24 Jun, 2016 08:40 PMSummers get hotter, rains decline and crops fail. The conflict between people increase and migration in search of better lands and skies begin. Sounds familiar? We are not talking about Marathwada here. This is how the lives of our ancestors played out thousands of years ago.
![A narrow lane flanked by houses at Bhirrana. Source: Archaeological Survey of India](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/hakra1.jpg?itok=-dtnP4xF)
Karnataka, Tamil Nadu fight over Cauvery water sharing
Posted on 18 Jun, 2016 10:04 AMKarnataka and TN at cross roads over Mekedatu river project
![Cauvery river at Hogenakal, Karnataka (Source: IWP Flickr Photos via Claire Arni and Oriole Henri)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/2330822341_1b4aa606c2_z.jpg?itok=olkOXRWc)
Art of Living pays NGT compensation
Posted on 12 Jun, 2016 08:43 PMArt of Living pays environment compensation
![Front view of the giant stage at the World Culture Festival under construction in February, 2016 (Source: Yamuna Jiye Abhiyan)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/lead_4_0.jpg?itok=VzEAdZp8)
Simhastha leaves farmers fuming
Posted on 12 Jun, 2016 07:38 PMRamesh Mali, a farmer in his late thirties, looks at his farmland nervously. It has been 13 days since the Simhastha Maha Kumbh festival, 2016, concluded. The district administration had acquired his four bigha land (approximately 0.64 hectares) for the festival. The barricades and the concrete left on his land give us the idea that the land is not fit for farming this season.
![Kshipra at Mangalnath Ghat, Ujjain](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/_dsc0285es.jpg?itok=t5zxZWcE)
River dispute: Haryana manages water better than Punjab
Posted on 03 May, 2016 02:30 PMRapid growth in population, agriculture production, industrialisation and urbanisation have put an extreme burden on India's dwindling water resources. Water-guzzling paddy covers maximum gross area under cultivation at 44 million hectares.
![A bridge over Satluj river in Punjab. Source: Harpreet Riat/Wikimedia Commons](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/syl.jpg?itok=JU6cF8LE)
Maharashra issues water advisory for Holi
Posted on 22 Mar, 2016 06:05 PMReservoir levels dip, Maharashtra urges people to celebrate dry holi
![Holi being celebrated (Source: Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/barsana_holi_festival_1.jpg?itok=pyeDc9z4)
Sutlej-Yamuna Link canal creates rift between Punjab-Haryana
Posted on 15 Mar, 2016 12:10 PMPunjab-Haryana at crossroads over the controversial Sutlej-Yamuna canal
![Sutlej river in Punjab (Source: Harpreet Riat via Wikipedia)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/2_river_satluj_sutlej_ropar_dam_and_bridge_in_rupnagar_punjab_india.jpg?itok=LC_x17Iv)
One river, two names and a 14-year-long dispute
Posted on 10 Mar, 2016 07:09 PMThe Mandovi river is picture perfect. She is the wide, placid river fringed by the coconut palms and dotted by the boats that we think of when we think of Goa.
![The serene Mandovi is the focus of a bitter dispute between Karnataka and Goa](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/mandovi_rural.jpg?itok=FEI1CPOh)