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Those invisible farm hands
Posted on 28 Oct, 2016 09:43 PMParvati, aged 40, is an agricultural labourer working on the outskirts of Pune. The sole breadwinner of her family, she has not been going for work for three days because of severe pain in the lower back. She asks me for some pills or ointments that could relieve her of her backache.
![Women at work on a farm. (Source: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/dscn0558.jpg?itok=xX_SS9iz)
When neighbours fight for water
Posted on 25 Oct, 2016 02:12 PMWith recent reports of China blocking a tributary of the Brahmaputra in Tibet to construct its most expensive hydro project, the Assam government has been worried.
![The river Brahmaputra (Source: Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/the_brahmaputra_river_0.jpg?itok=_rAQfkOw)
This year witnesses record agricultural output
Posted on 24 Oct, 2016 07:17 AMNormal monsoon leads to record agricultural output this year
![A farm in India. (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/15878165733_764873e893_z.jpg?itok=sJJ0g_KO)
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) – Wetlands
Posted on 21 Oct, 2016 06:27 AMThis is a simple guide that lists out the most popular questions related to wetlands, to understand what they are and their importance a little better. Please click on a topic for detailed information
![Maguri Beel, a wetland area in the Tinsukia district of Upper Assam.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/8674758978_580f42e4be_z.jpg?itok=TTRVhODa)
Centre drafts National Water Framework Bill 2016
Posted on 17 Oct, 2016 09:19 AMBill to manage river basins out
![Ganga at Garmukhteshwar (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/6172024170_3151074271_b_0.jpg?itok=7r5iZrd-)
Selling packaged water above MRP punishable offence
Posted on 17 Oct, 2016 09:02 AMJail term for selling packaged water above MRP: Government
![Mineral water bottles (Source: Pixabay.com)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/bottles-60479_640_0_0.jpg?itok=GNS_yrLf)
Water not for profit
Posted on 16 Oct, 2016 08:58 PMIn August 2016, the Karnataka government gave Abu Dhabi-based businessman B.R. Shetty permission to privatise the iconic Jog Falls to make it a perennial waterfall and to develop it into a tourism hotspot.
![NMC employees union and residents of Nagpur protest water privatisation.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/img-20160202-wa0006_0.jpg?itok=vgAipuVy)
Health check up for the rivers
Posted on 14 Oct, 2016 06:16 PMA severe crisis is plaguing the rivers in India.
![The Krishna river, Wai, Maharashtra. (Source: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/krishna_river_1.jpg?itok=kyV1exAD)
Can we build castles without sand?
Posted on 14 Oct, 2016 05:45 AMSand is today the most consumed raw material in the world after water. From building infrastructure to making glass, silicon chips, solar panels and even detergents and toothpastes, sand is an omnipresent element of our living.
![Illegal mining affects the natural course of the river, its flood-regulation capacity and the groundwater levels.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/18786183543_9c510fc748_o_1.jpg?itok=9ANjzxDI)
Empty fields remain as schemes fail
Posted on 13 Oct, 2016 01:20 PMPhaguni Ho hails from East Singhbhum district in Jharkhand. Come March, Phaguni’s husband will migrate to Chennai to work as a daily wager at a construction site. Unable to handle the small farm in Singhbhum alone, she has given it on lease to another farmer. “I have to look after my four children and livestock.
![Phaguni is one of the victims of the crisis in farming.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/padma.jpg?itok=eEN2ob0Y)