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Telangana, Maharashtra sign pact for Godavari projects

Policy matter this week

Swati Bansal

Posted on 29 Aug, 2016 09:44 AM

Telangana, Maharashtra sign pact for irrigation projects across Godavari

A dam in Maharashtra (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)

Farakka faces a barrage of criticism

The Farakka barrage is an ageing symbol of our need to control rivers and our inability to do so. Can we do away with it?

Chicu Lokgariwar

Posted on 27 Aug, 2016 08:25 AM

The chief minister of Bihar, Nitish Kumar, called for the decommissioning of the Farakka barrage recently.

The lower Ganga, just upstream of Farakka, displays bank-cutting and erosion.

Manual scavenging: The caste connection

The Balmiki caste has been marginalised for their association with manual scavenging. Swacch Bharat Mission needs to put an end to this evil to save a population from discrimination.

Paul D’Souza

Posted on 24 Aug, 2016 09:07 PM

Manual scavenging has been glorified since the time of Mahatma Gandhi. It hasn’t changed now with prime minister Narendra Modi describing it as an “experience in spirituality”. Manual scavenging is dehumanising. And despite the laws created to abolish it, the news of manual scavenging and manual scavengers dying in sewers and septic tanks are not unheard of.

A manual scavenger at work. (Source: Flickr Commons)

Spike in farmer suicides

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Swati Bansal

Posted on 21 Aug, 2016 08:47 PM

India witnesses 40 percent rise in farmer suicides in a year

A farmer in his field. (Source: India Water Portal)

Encroachment behind Chennai floods: Panel

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Swati Bansal

Posted on 21 Aug, 2016 08:36 PM

Encroachment of lakes and riverbeds caused Chennai floods: Panel

Rescue efforts during Chennai's floods. (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)

Honestly, not the best policy changes

Changes have been proposed to existing environmental laws. We look at three such policy changes that could affect the ecosystem and local communities negatively.

chicu

Posted on 19 Aug, 2016 04:19 PM

Saileena Sarkar's introduction to the East Kolkata Wetlands began as soon as she moved to the city. She says, “The Kolkata wetlands have been a point of interest since I came to the city.

An earthmover submerged downstream of the Srinagar Hydroelectric project, Uttarakhand. By permitting contractors to begin construction on a project before the EIA is approved, the government is enabling disasters in the future.

Art of Living guilty of damaging Yamuna floodplains

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Swati Bansal

Posted on 16 Aug, 2016 09:57 AM

World Culture Festival damaged Yamuna floodplains, concludes NGT

The front view of the giant stage under construction for the World Culture Festival. (Source: Yamuna Jiye Abhiyan)

Interlinking project needs reanalysis: IIT Study

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Swati Bansal

Posted on 16 Aug, 2016 09:53 AM

Not enough water available for interlinking rivers: IIT study

Water sharing: In China’s defence

Mutual trust and not the fear of an imaginary war is needed to improve the Sino-Indian relation over the sharing of Brahmaputra.

Honzhou Zhang

Posted on 09 Aug, 2016 11:41 PM

When two powerful and populous countries share a river to quench the thirst of its people, some amount of friction between the countries is bound to happen. The water of Brahmaputra, that flows through India, China, Bangladesh and Bhutan, has been a bone of contention between China and India for long.