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Bay of Bengal
40 percent of rural households in India lack access to drinking water
Posted on 27 Nov, 2019 04:37 AMNSS finds only 58.2 percent of rural households have drinking water facilities within premises
![Women in Bametara district of Chattisgarh line up to collect water. Photo credit: Makarand Purohit for India Water Portal](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/28119050528_f158f99ed1_c.jpg?itok=I8XHq-TX)
Free septic tank cleaning in Delhi; CM attempts to reduce sewer deaths
Posted on 18 Nov, 2019 07:59 PMDelhi CM announces free sewage cleaning schemes for unauthorised colonies
![Image credit: Sharada Prasad](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/14_csp_2701_0.jpg?itok=YYPLD5Za)
NGT pushes to ban RO purifiers for water with TDS below 500 mg/l
Posted on 13 Nov, 2019 10:45 AMNGT pushes MoEF to issue notification to ban unnecessary use of RO purifiers
![A domestic RO water purifier](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/image0.jpeg?itok=lsEMVgBK)
Arrival of northeast monsoon & retreat of southwest monsoon coincides this year; Salt lake and several metro cities shrinking at alarming pace
Posted on 23 Oct, 2019 01:36 PMSoon a national framework for e-flows in all major rivers
![Yamuna river in Delhi (Source: Sudhanshu Malhotra via IWP Flickr Photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/2935403870_3529afab93_z_0_1.jpg?itok=HPrqfOFH)
In conversation with K. J. Joy of SOPPECOM
Posted on 21 Oct, 2019 10:41 AMTo many in the water sector, K. J. Joy needs no introduction. An activist at heart, Joy is known for his untiring rights based work in mobilising communities in rural Maharashtra, and for his research work on water and water related conflicts including inter-state riparian water conflicts.
![KJ Joy speaks at a felicitation for the late Professor Ramaswamy Iyer.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/joy_ramaswamy_iyer_felicitation.jpg?itok=84xa2_AF)
SC stops further cutting of trees at Aarey; Idol immersion in Ganges to attract fine of Rs. 50,000; Household appliances to be rated on water consumption efficiency
Posted on 10 Oct, 2019 12:05 PMSC comes to the rescue of Aarey trees in Mumbai
![Ganesh Visarjan (Source: Wikimedia Commons via Chetan Gole)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/1280px-ganesh_visarjan_at_futala_by_chetan_gole_0.jpg?itok=ix34G2s0)
Towards a new horizontal water federalism
Posted on 09 Oct, 2019 08:04 PMThe execution of India’s institutional framework for preventing and solving conflicts over river water is still evolving. A new thinking on federalism in the field of water management to meet local aspirations and national ambition is needed.
![Odisha and Chhattisgarh have locked horns over the distribution of waters of the Mahanadi river at Hirakud dam (Image: Makarand Purohit, India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/mahanadi_0.jpg?itok=M4wrDxqS)
Centre all set to sustain country's ODF status
Posted on 02 Oct, 2019 11:12 AMNational rural sanitation strategy launched to sustain open defecation-free (ODF) status
![A toilet constructed under Swachh Bharat Mission (Source: IWP Flickr photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/dsc04543_0_0.jpg?itok=bvAGDyeS)
River as a cultural mosaic
Posted on 02 Oct, 2019 10:41 AM"River conversations are critical to re-evaluate histories, reconnect civilisations, cultures and peoples, ideas and regions and open streams of thought for a future with exciting possibilities," says Kishalay Bhattacharjee, Associate Professor and Vice Dean, Jindal School of Journalism and Communication who has conceptualized a new series of quarterly river conv
![Yamuna near Taj Mahal (Image: Flickr Commons, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/yamuna_6.jpg?itok=sCZ_ivE3)
Water levels in major reservoirs rise to 85 percent of overall capacity: CWC
Posted on 24 Sep, 2019 10:31 PMReservoir levels increase to 85 percent of overall capacity this year
![Narmada river in Madhya Pradesh (Source: IWP Flickr photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/14361734417_8d80b2667f_z_1_0_2.jpg?itok=KgukgU3P)