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River restoration to be the focus of the first 'India Rivers Week'
Posted on 23 Oct, 2014 04:49 PMFirst 'India Rivers Week' to be held in Delhi from November 24-27
![Cauvery river in Karnataka](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/2330822341_1b4aa606c2_b.jpg?itok=YBQzUsNx)
Factors affecting toilet adoption in rural India
Posted on 20 Oct, 2014 05:58 PMSince the rebranding of the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan to the Swach Bharat Mission, newspapers have been flooded with articles and discussions on the need to improve the sanitation scenario in India.
![Rural toilet (Source: Saurabh Phadke)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/sp_toilet.jpg?itok=4APJ7B-y)
Fish frenzy in the land of butter chicken!
Posted on 16 Oct, 2014 08:20 PMGurdeep Bains is busy dealing with two sets of contractors who have arrived to net his fish. He had to refuse a third. “This is the scenario when the market is supposedly down as people tend to avoid non-vegetarian food during saavan, one of the holiest months in the traditional Hindu calendar.
![Fish farming in Punjab](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/dsc03790.jpg?itok=mKchHoU-)
The slow death of a river
Posted on 15 Oct, 2014 05:12 PMThe Kshipra is considered a sacred river in Madhya Pradesh's Malwa region. In the last few decades, this perennial river has also lost its glory like many other rivers in India.
![Prayers on the bank of the Kshipra](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/dsc_0007-3.jpg?itok=7RKci9Rn)
Tribals in Jharkhand plan for water security
Posted on 14 Oct, 2014 03:15 PM"Clean water", emphasized the woman. "'Close to the house. Whenever it is needed", she added. She was speaking at a village meeting organised to determine what was needed to make the village water secure. The discussions had begun with an attempt to define water security.
![A planning meeting in Bhawani Chowki](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/harkhand_lead.jpg?itok=OKf8FAu6)
Scheme to develop 2,379 villages in the next 5 years launched
Posted on 14 Oct, 2014 11:47 AMCentre launches the Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana
![A drought-free village in Maharashtra](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/11797948633_2f4f8368ea_b.jpg?itok=5JMtMbyW)
It's cyclone Hudhud's turn to cause damage!
Posted on 14 Oct, 2014 11:40 AMHudhud lands in Vizag at 195 kmph
![Tropical cyclone of 2013 (Source: NASA WorldView)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/cyclone_phailin_11_october_2013.jpg?itok=LQYGXwUj)
Great things can happen when 'theirs' becomes 'ours'
Posted on 13 Oct, 2014 10:59 AMPriya Ramasubban personifies the words ‘good things come in small packages’. This sprightly, self motivated enthusiast, saw a marshy, polluted cess pool, hemmed in by an open tract of land, where labourers and migrants daily dipped in for their morning ablutions. Talking to people around, she realised that this soggy piece of wetland was once a lake.
![A lake once more: Kaikondarahalli Lake](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/lake_0061.jpg?itok=IRvvTPts)
Barefoot scientists a.k.a local farmers
Posted on 09 Oct, 2014 09:38 PMEffects of climate change have aggravated the vulnerability of agricultural systems in all the parts of the country but people have found their own solutions and methods to deal with it. These have come from age-old knowledge practices of local farmers and communities, who depend on natural resources and who interact with the local ecosystems on a day-to-day basis.
![Farmer couple ploughing their field](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/img_0751.jpg?itok=j9KmsxGz)
Depeasantisation: The gender aspect
Posted on 09 Oct, 2014 09:35 PMWe've come a long way since the Green Revolution in the 60s especially in Punjab, where it all began. Lower production due to higher costs, increased debt, lowered income and drop in employment – this is the situation here as it grapples with an agrarian crisis.
![Farmer in Punjab (Source: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/punjab_farmer1.jpg?itok=8kT0VX-T)