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Water at a click: Pictures to tell the story
Posted on 08 Aug, 2016 10:50 PMA picture is worth a thousand words, but more often than not, insightful pieces of art and photography find themselves confined to affluent salons and galleries. While employing art and photography to address social issues is common in the West, the concept of public art is still in its incipient stages here in India.
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Community effort saves mangroves
Posted on 04 Aug, 2016 09:52 AMCome monsoon, the villages in the Sundarbans islands witness nature’s fury with floodwaters overriding all boundaries and inundating huge tracts of land. As such, the earthen embankments, stretching to 3600 kms on the 54 inhabited islands out of a total of 102 in the Sundarbans, protect scores of people from floods and tidal waves.
![Mangroves of Sundarbans. (Source: Nature Environment & Wildlife Society - NEWS)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/plantation_sites.jpg?itok=2lWryLUA)
Mines radiate disaster
Posted on 04 Aug, 2016 09:43 AMThe body of Guria Das looked like that of a three-year-old when she passed away at the age of 13. Guria was born in 1999 with a condition that constrained her growth. Her father, Chhatua Das recounts how Guria, unable to speak or move, communicated with him and his wife through gestures; a language that only the three of them could comprehend.
![Guria was born deformed. Her father Chhatua blames the radiation from indiscriminate uranium mining and the tailings ponds for her death.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/gudia_das.jpg?itok=czwWQHxJ)
Seminar on introduction to Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage (HWTS)
Posted on 03 Aug, 2016 03:04 PMAbout HWTS:
Bio-loos on track, Railways to clean up its act
Posted on 03 Aug, 2016 10:27 AMFor almost two decades, the Employment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry Latrines (Prohibition) Act of 1993 was a paralytic occupant of the statute books. The Act prohibited the construction of dry toilets which required faeces to be removed manually and outlawed manual scavenging.
![A rail coach fitted with bio-toilet. (Courtesy: India Railway Info)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/1370953633942-dsc_1365_bio_toilets_are_seen_fitted_to_coach.jpg.jpg?itok=kG94xNzS)
Run-up to the photo biennale
Posted on 02 Aug, 2016 06:12 PMWhen - August, 4, 2016 between 6PM and 8PM
Where - Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Chennai; No. 4, Rutland Gate, 5th Street, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600 006
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![PondyPHOTO 2016 - Chennai pre-event](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/chennai_pre_event.jpg?itok=k5oDed1b)
Rejuvenating traditional water system in Maharashtra
Posted on 02 Aug, 2016 09:44 AMMalguzari tanks were ponds made for water harvesting by the Malguzaars, who were zamindars or tenants in eastern Vidarbha, Maharashtra two centuries ago.These tanks provided water for irrigation and also increased the availability of fish for local consumption.
![Janbhora Malguzari tank in Bhandara](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/janbhora_tank_in_bhandara_district.jpg?itok=i28MQ1HM)
Where the holy rivers meet
Posted on 01 Aug, 2016 07:53 PMTemples in India have always had a water body near its premises. Whether it is a natural pond, a free-flowing river or a man-made tank, the water inside them seem to imbibe the sacredness associated with the temples, thereby becoming an integral part of the cultural, social and religious landscape of that area.
![Once every 12 years, pilgrims take a dip in the sacred tank where the holy rivers are believed to converge during the Mahamaham festival.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/dsc_0093.jpg?itok=PqN6_9xS)
Living in fear of water
Posted on 31 Jul, 2016 11:41 AMFarmer Ravikant Deshmukh (40) is a much worried man. He lives in Kudari Dalli in Balod district in Chhattisgarh, a village that would get affected adversely if Mohar reservoir project takes off. The project, once realised, is estimated to submerge the agricultural land and houses of 1200 villagers in Kudari Dalli.
![Punam Kumar Deshmukh at the proposed Mohar reservoir site near Banjaridihi village.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/28379682532_a6481444f3_o.jpg?itok=KBp_1uvs)