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Bay of Bengal
Access to clean water and sanitation: the rural-urban gap closes
Posted on 27 May, 2014 12:21 PMThe rural-urban divide in access to sanitation reduces: UN
![Many rural areas have free toilets](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/sani.jpg?itok=AW3-JY8g)
NGT orders Singrauli power plants to supply drinking water to residents
Posted on 21 May, 2014 08:48 AM![Singrauli Coal Mines (Source: UA Satish on Flickr)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/singrauli.jpg?itok=DVQtKAn0)
Environmentalists wary of Modi's green agenda
Posted on 20 May, 2014 10:47 PMEnvironmentalists wary of Modi's green agenda
![Launch of Narmada-Kshipra interlink (The Hindu)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/kshipra.jpg?itok=RBQKMPKh)
UP Pollution Control Board issues notice to 956 units for polluting Ganga
Posted on 12 May, 2014 08:19 AM956 units in UP gets notice for polluting Ganga
![Ganga river in Varanasi, UP (Source: Wikipedia)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/aerial_view_ganga_river_banks_varanasi_india_2012_0.jpg?itok=M0aCM11u)
Bihar's great walls of destruction
Posted on 07 May, 2014 10:49 PMBorn out of the sea, the Ganga basin is a playground of the rivers coming down from the Himalayas. Floods are not a new thing in Bihar, a state in the lap of these flood plains. For centuries, the people here have lived with these waters, with the floods washing away their lands once a year, slowly, leaving behind a blanket of rich and fertile silt.
![Once rice fields, now filled with sand (Jul 2012)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/floods_bihar.jpg?itok=kSYVOVEK)
80 countries agree to save oceans in UN-backed summit
Posted on 05 May, 2014 12:25 PM80 countries join hands to save world's oceans
![Oceans of the world (Source: Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/oceans_of_the_world.jpg?itok=Eg8wAUC5)
Call for participation in the training program on 'Understanding Water and Water Resources Management: Issues, Struggles and Solutions', Water Conflicts Forum and Sambhaavnaa Institute, Himachal Pradesh
Posted on 01 May, 2014 07:43 AMTheme of the training program: The theme of the workshop will focus on the crises around water and water resources management. It will highlight key issues of water as a common property resource – its exploitation, privatisation and the resulting impacts like conflicts around water and its access for the common people.
![Understanding Water & Water Resources Management](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/water_conflicts_1.jpg?itok=66fEFAhG)
Below normal' rainfall for India this monsoon: IMD
Posted on 28 Apr, 2014 10:18 PM'Below normal' rainfall for India this monsoon: IMD
![Monsoon in India (Source: journeys@remember)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/monsoon_1.jpg?itok=W63x6DFn)
Himachal govt to restrict commercial activities on Rohtang
Posted on 28 Apr, 2014 10:10 PMNo more commercial activities on Rohtang pass after May 6: HP govt
![Rohtang pass (Source: Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/rohtang.jpg?itok=wLMubbI0)
Goa-Karnataka dispute over Kalasa-Banduri project resolved
Posted on 22 Apr, 2014 11:07 PMTribunal's order over Kalasa-Banduri Project brings respite to Goa and Karnataka
![Mahadayi River in Goa (Source: Wikipedia)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/1280px-mandovi_in_goa_10-26-2008_5-41-46_pm.jpg?itok=jJ8mp5A7)