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Rural sanitation: A charter of demands
Posted on 31 Jul, 2019 02:08 PMThere are studies and field reports that have analysed the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) in terms of coverage and use of toilets in rural India.
![Raibari Bewa standing near the toilet, bathroom unit and collecting water from the third tap in Dudukaguda village, in Thuamul Rampur block, Kalahandi district of Odisha. On the walls, details of Swachh Bharat Mission benefits availed by her in Odia | Picture courtesy: Ajaya Behera](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/woman-in-odisha-standing-next-to-a-toilet_rural-sanitation_gram-vikas-1024x684.jpg?itok=sdAZoGL4)
Women hold the key to water for food security and nutrition
Posted on 01 Jul, 2019 12:34 PMThe water sector remains male dominated at different scales, from engineers and technocrats responsible for designing irrigation systems, to upper caste and upper class men who decide on the location of canals, borewells, tanks, and other water systems at the grassroots level.
![A woman from the Ahir tribe at Chapredi village, east of Bhuj with cotton husks. (Image: Meena Kadri, Flickr Commons, CC BY-ND 2.0](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/womn_cotton.jpg?itok=1kOucera)
Food security with flood, drought-resistant rice crops
Posted on 07 Jun, 2019 11:23 AMIn recent years, cycles of extreme drought and severe flooding have affected the country’s water availability and crop production. The trend can be attributed to climate change. Scientists have been exploring drought and flood tolerant crop varieties to offset stress conditions that significantly constrain rice production.
![Determining the long-term effects of the flood-tolerant rice variety Swarna-Sub1. (Image: Centre for Effective Global Action)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/long-term-diffusion-and-impact-of-flood-tolerant-rice.jpg?itok=HSTvKOIV)
Cyclone Fani ravages Odisha's ecological hotspots
Posted on 15 May, 2019 06:12 PMOdisha's ecological hotspots severely affected by cyclone
![After a cyclonic storm (Image source: IWP Flickr photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/31271823450_83ef86ea47_z_0.jpg?itok=sk56-vBG)
Evacuation measures during cyclones in Odisha
Posted on 10 May, 2019 02:55 PMLife is getting back to normal after an ‘extremely severe’ cyclonic storm Fani hit India’s eastern coastline. It ripped through several districts of Odisha and West Bengal and brought in torrential rains and winds of up to 200 km/hr.
![The trail of destruction after cyclone Phailin in Odisha on October 15, 2013 (Image: EU/ECHO, Samuel Marie Fanon; Flickr Commons, CC BY-ND 2.0)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/cyclone_phailin-eu-echo-samuel_marie_fanon.jpg?itok=wAaGI-CL)
Coping with droughts: Gender matters
Posted on 08 May, 2019 12:38 PMDroughts are one of the most feared natural calamities impacting agriculture and food production as well as the morale of millions of farmers in India. Recent studies show that the frequency of droughts is increasing.
![Women are burdened with household tasks such as collecting water. (Image Source: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/women_and_water.jpg?itok=tUmp9u8q)
Cyclone Fani hits Odisha, 35 dead
Posted on 07 May, 2019 03:36 PMCyclone Fani, strongest to hit India in 20 years, causes widespread destruction in Odisha
![A cyclonic storm that hit India in 2016. (Source: IWP Flickr photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/31642433665_20dc424529_z_1.jpg?itok=3-l9LqYc)
River conservation efforts need to be prioritised
Posted on 05 Apr, 2019 02:06 PMOdisha is home to 11 major rivers of which many are interstate rivers such as the Mahanadi. As climate change makes extreme rainfall events more frequent in the state, there is an urgent need to better manage the rivers and their basins.
![Engagement with indigenous communities in protecting natural forests and rivers is vital (Image: Priya Ranjan Sahoo)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/mahanadi-prsahu_0.jpg?itok=EaxC23b6)
Hazardous waste rules amended
Posted on 13 Mar, 2019 03:34 PMCentre amends hazardous and other wastes rules 2016 to ban import of solid plastic waste
![Different types of plastic waste displayed at a sanitation park. (Source: IWP Flickr photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/25774133008_3f63f165a4_z.jpg?itok=24ZZKm0B)
Nominations invited for third batch of Odisha Water Honours
Posted on 18 Feb, 2019 04:16 PMThe Odisha Water Honours, the only of its
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