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Bangalore Urban and Rural District
Rainwater harvesting rescues Bangalore residential community
Posted on 18 Dec, 2014 02:59 PM"Just having the people of Delhi look at their water meters everyday will enable the city to deal with its current water supply", said K.P Singh.
He should know.
![K.P. Singh shows one of the recharge wells](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/rainbow_drive.jpg?itok=vbpurtuv)
ICIMOD wins UNFCCC's award for flood warning system
Posted on 03 Dec, 2014 09:55 AMICIMOD wins accolade for its flood warning system
![Unsettling flood waters of Muzaffarpur, Bihar](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/2246719146_1b717bbdcf_z_0.jpg?itok=bN7I3jUP)
Great things can happen when 'theirs' becomes 'ours'
Posted on 13 Oct, 2014 10:59 AMPriya Ramasubban personifies the words ‘good things come in small packages’. This sprightly, self motivated enthusiast, saw a marshy, polluted cess pool, hemmed in by an open tract of land, where labourers and migrants daily dipped in for their morning ablutions. Talking to people around, she realised that this soggy piece of wetland was once a lake.
![A lake once more: Kaikondarahalli Lake](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/lake_0061.jpg?itok=IRvvTPts)
3 major decisions to revive the Ganga within 3 years
Posted on 25 Aug, 2014 10:27 PMGovernment identifies 11 states along Ganga for sewer link
![Ganga river at Kachla, Uttar Pradesh](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/6172025486_d2b794f518_z.jpg?itok=Mb-7p29d)
31% of Bangalore's groundwater not drinkable
Posted on 22 Jul, 2014 01:44 PM"Growing garbage menace ups nitrate content in lakes", said a recent headline in the Deccan Herald that highlighted a study conducted by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) on illegal dumping sites situated near water bodies in Bangalore.
![Lakes or dumping place for the construction debris](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/03_gopal.jpg?itok=IGHVM2yh)
Mapping Bangalore's water supply
Posted on 07 Apr, 2014 06:14 AMThe construction of a visual map of water supply to Bangalore city from available data sets on water quality and water related infrastructure by NEERI as a part of the data project started by India Water Portal, Arghyam was a challenging task.
The visualisation process
![Bangalore water supply base map](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/bangalore-02_0.png?itok=E8m8GHjZ)
Applications invited for the post of 'Project Management Consultant- Sanitation: Behaviour Change Communication, Arghyam, Bangalore/Davangere, Karnataka
Posted on 02 Apr, 2014 12:38 PMAbout the Organisation:
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Maharashtra reels under hail storms and unseasonal rainfall
Posted on 31 Mar, 2014 11:23 PMMaharashtra reels under hail storms
![Unseasonal rainfall in Mumbai (Source: Wikipedia)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/mumbai_india_monsoon_clouds.jpg?itok=VCfmAvle)
A better, bluer Bangalore
Posted on 31 Mar, 2014 10:26 PMIn honour of World Water Day 2014, the theme at the Green Bazaar, a community event run by The Alternative, was water. India Water Portal collaborated to add some 'blue' to the 'green'.
![Green Bazaar in Bangalore](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/green_blue_day.png?itok=Dz9h6r-B)