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Fire in Assam to have catastrophic effect on ecozones: Experts
Posted on 11 Jun, 2020 09:04 PMFire breaks at an oil well in Assam damaging ecozones around the site
![Migratory birds flock Maguri Beel, which is 500 m away from the incident site (Source: IWP Flickr photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/8673662663_61e12a1c09_c_0.jpg?itok=fcDMPQ-X)
Battling Covid-19 in Jharkhand
Posted on 11 Jun, 2020 04:07 PMJharkhand is a state dominated by tribal communities located in eastern part of India. Agriculture, NTFP (Non-timber forest produce) collection and daily wage laborers are the prime source of income for rural Jharkhand.
![Distribution of ration to cope with the impacts of the pandemic (Image Source: WOTR)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/jharkhand6.jpg?itok=_fLcYYpI)
Northeast fights Covid-19
Posted on 09 Jun, 2020 11:34 PMWhile Covid-19 has left many countries including India in the line of fire, the situation in India is now getting particularly alarming with the number of people infected by Covid-19 rising at a rapid pace.
![Ration distribution to the migrants (Image Source: Sunbird Trust)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/ne_covid.jpg?itok=5K3Rf9fP)
Webinar: Safe drinking water and the Sustainable Development Goals
Posted on 08 Jun, 2020 01:32 PMFor the last four years, CAWST and Sehgal Foundation have been organizing and co-delivering training workshops on safe drinking water in India. This time, experts from CAWST, Sehgal Foundation, and UNICEF are coming together to co-deliver a webinar on the important topic of safe drinking water.
Objectives of the webinar:
Need to protect the unique geological features in the Upper Ken basin
Posted on 07 Jun, 2020 12:52 PMKathayi, a scheduled tribe (ST) dominated village in the midst of the forested stretches of Shahnagar block in Panna district faces acute water scarcity during the 3-4 summer months. Through the government schemes, three wells and two hand pumps were installed in this 75 household village in the last 10-15 years, but most of them are dysfunctional now.
![Panghata Kund in village Aloni, Panna (June 2014, after initial monsoon) (Image: Seema Ravandale)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/panghata_kund_in_village_aloni_panna_june_2014_after_initial_monsoon_pic_credit_seema_ravandale.jpg?itok=wYJHgRA-)
Living through Cyclone Amphan and Covid-19: Climate change and water security
Posted on 07 Jun, 2020 11:33 AMThe nomenclature of cyclones and hurricanes is developed much in advance through multilateral processes in the region. The name Amphan (Sky in Thai and Akash in Bangla) was chosen from a long list of potential disasters long back.
![Millions of people in India and Bangladesh lost their means of employment, food, water and homes in one go during the cyclone (Image: Srikanth Kolari/ActionAid India)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/amphan-actionaid_0.jpg?itok=v5DT_Pc5)
Centre approves JJM funds to Odisha and Chhattisgarh for this financial year
Posted on 05 Jun, 2020 05:23 PMGovernment approves Jal Jeevan Mission funds for Odisha and Chhattisgarh
![Child drinks water from a tap (Image: Imal Hashemi/Taimani Films/World Bank, Flickr Commons, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/tap-water_0_1.jpg?itok=fDK7tzXX)
Cyclone Nisarga hits Maharashtra coast, causes intense rains in western districts
Posted on 05 Jun, 2020 01:03 PMMaking a landfall in Raigad district, cyclone Nisarga wanes but causes heavy rains in western Maharashtra
![In a cyclone in 2016, thousands of trees were uprooted (Image source: IWP Flickr photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/31271823450_83ef86ea47_z_1.jpg?itok=OWvjIl6g)
Covid-19 hits women’s access to menstrual hygiene products
Posted on 04 Jun, 2020 08:49 AMIn an effort to raise concerns around effective menstrual health, Menstrual Health Alliance India (MHAI), a network working on menstrual health and hygiene in India, Dasra, a philanthropic organisation and Change.org, a technology platform for social change hosted an online workshop recent
![Menstrual cycle and personal hygiene items (Image: Marco Verch, Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0); Flickr Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/pads.jpg?itok=Gw_O55ek)
Packaged drinking water units' woes: A Covid -19 perspective
Posted on 01 Jun, 2020 05:03 PMNovel Corona virus is constantly changing its symptoms, speed and scale with an alarming regularity and posing a stiff challenge to scientists, governments and frontline warriors as it assumes pandemic proportions around the globe.
![Filtration plants in a packaging water units (Image source: Tushar Trivedi)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/packaged_water.jpg?itok=uSJkB7Hp)