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Nagpur District
Understanding drought impacts and strategies: Orange growers in Vidarbha
Posted on 19 Apr, 2024 03:50 PMDrought, a climatic phenomenon marked by insufficient rainfall over an extended period, severely impacts livelihoods by causing water shortages for essential activities like farming. This leads to reduced agricultural income, livestock mortality, food insecurity, and health issues.
![Examining orange growers' perceptions and strategies to mitigate drought impacts (Image: Needpix)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2024-04/orange-tree-needpix.jpg?itok=wDUQr6hO)
From water carriers to water entrepreneurs
Posted on 31 May, 2021 04:16 PMImagine having to travel 7 to 8 kilometers every day to fetch water from a village because t
![iJal bridged the gender gap through economic empowerment and reduced the water collection drudgery for women (Image: Safe Water Network)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-05/Women%20operator%20trained%20to%20perform%20backend%20machinery%20work%20at%20the%20plant%20%281%29.jpg?itok=VCHJDZvn)
Guidelines to handle COVID-19 biomedical waste are out
Posted on 08 Apr, 2020 01:10 PMCPCB releases guidelines to handle COVID-19 biomedical waste
![Biomedical waste. Image for representation only (Source: Vivien Rolfe via Flickr)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/7006378710_b243ece68b_c.jpg?itok=UrSJdiEy)
After 40 years, Hilsa migrates to Allahabad again
Posted on 13 Feb, 2019 01:29 PMNavigation lock at Farakka Barrage redesigned for Hilsa migration
![Farakka Barrage by Sudip Burman via Google Maps, Feb 2012](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/farakka_barrage_-_google_maps1_1.jpg?itok=zhzpYUgB)
Vidarbha farmer's date with success
Posted on 30 Oct, 2018 10:12 AMIn a drought-prone region like Vidarbha in Maharashtra, mostly in the news for water scarcity and farmer suicide, it is not every day that you hear the success story of a farmer. That's why the story of Savi Thangavel, 69, a resident of Mohegaon village which is just 22 km from Nagpur, is special.
![Thangavel date farm (Source: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/thangavel_farm-s.jpg?itok=e8UgdBlM)
Delhi enveloped in smog again
Posted on 14 Nov, 2017 12:56 PMYet again, North India shrouded in heavy smog
![Delhi shrouded in smog. (Source: Jean-Etienne Minh-Duy/Flickr)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/5543835085_26a8a47275_b_0.jpg?itok=ALUnAx9W)
The search for a shelter
Posted on 01 Feb, 2017 08:46 PMIn the last few decades, India has seen an increasing number of people migrating from rural areas to urban cities in search of work and better living. These migrants often get employed in the informal sector as construction workers, vendors, domestic servants, etc. They also live in informal settlements, generally known as slums.
![Residents struggle for a pot of drinking water at Bhuri Tekri, Indore.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/32115103622_290b08190b_n.jpg?itok=eSUDRcxG)
Rajasthan gets chilled water kiosk
Posted on 31 Oct, 2016 10:09 PMCountry's first mobile chilled water kiosk in Rajasthan
![Mobile water kiosk.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/rsz_1img_20160405_165014.jpg?itok=tJcF_XMl)
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)
NGT slams Railways for using groundwater illegally
Posted on 05 Apr, 2016 09:47 AMRailways using groundwater 'indiscriminately and illegally': NGT
![Indian Railways (Source: Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/wap-4_class_locomotive_of_indian_railways.jpg?itok=ZelgE4Vl)