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Taming the ash: Strategies for fly ash management in India
The problem of fly ash from coal plants in India and recommended solutions
Amita Bhaduri
Posted on 20 May, 2024 02:46 PM

India is heavily reliant on coal for its energy needs, with coal-fired power plants contributing significantly to the countr
A fly ash dam near NTPC in Korba (Image: India Water Portal Flickr)
Navigating challenges in India's Green Credit Programme
Policy matters this fortnight
Amita Bhaduri
Posted on 03 Apr, 2024 07:07 PM

Green Credit Programme: Balancing innovation and environmental impact
(Image: Johannes Plenio/Stocksnap/CC0 1.0 DEED)
Understanding landslides
What are landslides, what are their causes and what are the steps that can be undertaken by communities to reduce their impacts, and at the policy level to prevent them from happening?
Aarti Kelkar Khambete
Posted on 10 Jun, 2023 11:12 PM

While Joshimath in the Himalayas was in the news this year for landslide events that caused massive damage to infrastructure and lives, the problem is not confined to Uttarakhand alone.

Landslides can destroy property and lives. A landslide in Himachal Pradesh (Image Source: Sridhar Rao via Wikimedia Commons)
Classifying rivers for setting up stone crushers is illegal: NGT to Uttarakhand government
Policy matters this fortnight
Swati Bansal
Posted on 14 Dec, 2022 02:33 PM

Uttarakhand’s classification of rivers to set up stone crushers violates NGT Act
A river in Uttarakhand (Image source: IWP Flickr photos)
The/Nudge Prize Ashirvad Water Challenge
After successfully empowering agri entrepreneurs with solutions to potentially impact 10 million lives through #CiscoAgriChallenge, The/Nudge Foundation bring to you The/Nudge Prize- Ashirvad Water Challenge, a quest to find innovative solutions which can help in providing 'Clean Drinking Water for All.' If you are an innovator working on such solutions, please apply.
Posted on 25 Feb, 2022 02:16 PM

 
Kudrati kheti (natural farming) - A manual in Hindi
Farming the natural way - going back to the age old traditions and practices
Rajinder Chaudhary
Posted on 01 Sep, 2021 05:04 PM

This manual (third edition) in Hindi developed by Rajinder Chaudhary on natural farming, also known as organic, zero budget or alternative farming, is an attempt to spread awareness among Indian farmers about the above sustainable agriculture methods.
Floods and recurring natural disasters in India
Better regulation of environmentally sensitive areas is needed to avert disasters.
Gurinder Kaur
Posted on 04 Aug, 2021 09:59 AM

After two weeks of extremely hot and long dry weather, the monsoon winds brought heavy rains to the hilly northern states of India (Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand) and the south-west coastal states (Maharashtra, Karnataka, Goa, and Kerala). Cloudbursts and landslides have wreaked havoc.
Floods in Uttarkashi (Image: Oxfam International; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Call for Papers for 'The Filtration Event- FILTECH -2022', Cologne, Germany
FILTECH 2022 Conference will feature once again the latest advances and techniques in liquid/solid and gas/particle separation (dust, gas and air filtration) in three days of indepth exposure.
Posted on 14 Feb, 2021 04:41 PM

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Delhi smog can’t be blamed on crop fires
There is more to Delhi's air pollution than stubble burning in Punjab and Haryana.
Gurinder Kaur
Posted on 01 Jan, 2021 01:46 PM

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The small window of a fortnight between rice harvesting and wheat sowing compels farmers to burn the crop residue (Image: Neil Palmer, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY SA-4.0 Generic)
Not in the interest of women farmers!
The new farm related bills will spell doom for women workers who form the bulk of small and marginal sections of Indian agriculture, warns Mahila Kisan Adhikaar Manch (MAKAAM).
MAKAAM
Posted on 07 Dec, 2020 11:52 PM

Three farm-related Bills were recently passed in the Parliament by the BJP led government at the Center, which have subsequently received presidential assent.
Farm women, overworked and underpaid (Image Source: India Water Portal)
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