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How to save Punjab from floods?
The devastation caused by the torrential rains that pounded Punjab serves as yet another painful reminder of the cost associated with our hasty urban expansion and unplanned development.
Gurinder Kaur
Posted on 29 Jul, 2023 12:18 PM

These days, Punjab is in the grip of floods. In more than 1,400 villages in 19 districts of Punjab, water from Sutlej, Beas, Ravi, and Ghaggar is causing heavy damage to crops, houses, people, and other belongings. The state government has evacuated more than 25,000 people to safer places to avoid the flood.
Green regulations and environmental warnings are often disregarded by our planners. (Image: Rawpixel, CC0)
FAQs on water pumping and distribution for residential buildings
Who doesn't enjoy a constant, smooth flow of water at home? While local utilities provide water through their pipeline network, pumps are used to push the water stored in overhead tanks. Also, residential buildings use pumps to deliver water to your households. Know more about pumps through the FAQs below.
Amita Bhaduri
Posted on 28 Jul, 2023 07:09 PM

What is water pumping machinery used for?
Pumps used in residential buildings (Image: Propertygeek)
Wading through stagnant waters can be risky
Walking unprotected through stagnant or accumulated waters in urban as well as rural areas can expose you to diseases such as leptospirosis. What is leptospirosis? What are its causes? 
Aarti Kelkar Khambete
Posted on 27 Jul, 2023 10:15 AM

The monsoon can drench besides forcing you to wade through flooded stagnant waters in cities or make you to start working happily in the rice fields in rural areas. Rainwater puddles in the fields or stagnant waters in cities are often mixed with water from animal and rodent waste, and sewage in urban areas. Do you know that this can cause diseases such as leptospirosis? 
Working for long hours in collected waters can increase the risk of leptospirosis (Image Source: India Water Portal)
Designing for inclusion
How can architecture and design play an important role in redevelopment and rehabilitation to improve the built environment for marginalised communities.
Sandhya Naidu Janardhan
Community Design Agency
Posted on 26 Jul, 2023 04:57 PM

Slums have become ubiquitous parts of the urban landscape today. The lack of formal planning and public infrastructure in these settlements makes them unhealthy and unsafe for the residents. There is an urgent need to provide safe and healthy housing to these communities.
How can architecture support marginalised communities (Image: Community Design Agency)
One stop shop and services: Skilling rural Maharashtra
A pioneering initiative of training and skilling Young WASH Entrepreneurs (YWEs) as WASHMitras has not only helped solve the need for operation and maintenance of WASH facilities in schools in Maharashtra, but also helped empower WASHMitras in the process.
CYDA
PEF
UNICEF
Posted on 21 Jul, 2023 12:19 PM

Sapna, a WASHMitra from Chandrapur now frequently travels outside her village solving practical problems, breaking barriers and stereotypes while looking after Operation and Maintenance of toilets and marching towards earning more than enough to be financially independent.
(Image Source: CYDA, PEF, UNICEF (2022) One stop shop and services: Bringing 21st century skills to rural Maharashtra)
DCM Shriram AgWater Challenge
Apply now to solve water use efficiency for India's smallholder farmers: https://bit.ly/3qRf6xW
Posted on 19 Jul, 2023 10:29 AM

The 'DCM Shriram AgWater Challenge' was launched on 20th June 2023, and has been received with great interest and anticipation.
DCM Shriram AgWater Challenge
Posted on 19 Jul, 2023 10:10 AM

The 'DCM Shriram AgWater Challenge' was launched on 20th June 2023, and has been received with great interest and anticipation.
She the change: Empowering voices, enriching workplaces
The inaugural Women at Work Conference of Arthan
Arthan
Posted on 17 Jul, 2023 08:25 PM

On July 4, 2023, Arthan organised its first Women at Work conference, 'She The Change: Empowering Voices, Enriching Workplaces,' at the India International Centre, New Delhi. The conference aimed to bring together organisational leaders, human resource experts, gender experts, and thought leaders from civil society organisations and enterprises.
Recognising intersectionality and prioritising accessibility was seen as essential for creating a diverse and supportive work environment. (Image: Arthan)
Prioritise citizen participation in India's environmental policy development: Civis
Civis and Rainmatter Foundation have launched Climate Voices, a first-of-its-kind guide aimed at enabling and accelerating public consultation in co-creating India’s environmental laws 
Civis
Rainmatter Foundation
Posted on 16 Jul, 2023 10:12 AM

Need to improve citizen participation in India's environment and climate policymaking (Image: Caniceus/ Pixabay)
Fourteen Indian states have better resilience to floods
These states are at the forefront of flood early warning systems
Shreya Wadhawan
CEEW
Posted on 14 Jul, 2023 09:58 PM

Approximately 66% of individuals in India are exposed to extreme flood events. However, only 33% of the exposed individuals are covered by flood early warning systems (EWS), according to a new report released by the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW) recently.
Previously drought-prone areas are now facing floods (Image: Needpix)
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