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Water not for profit
Posted on 16 Oct, 2016 08:58 PMIn August 2016, the Karnataka government gave Abu Dhabi-based businessman B.R. Shetty permission to privatise the iconic Jog Falls to make it a perennial waterfall and to develop it into a tourism hotspot.
![NMC employees union and residents of Nagpur protest water privatisation.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/img-20160202-wa0006_0.jpg?itok=vgAipuVy)
Get wealthy with water
Posted on 15 Oct, 2016 11:59 AMThe Thiess International Riverprize is a globally renowned prize that is awarded by the International RiverFoundation to those demonstrating outstanding results in the sustainable river basin management, restoration and protection across the world.
![Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper receive the Thiess International Riverprize at the 19th International River Symposium. (Image Source: International RiverFoundation)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/423a6336.jpg?itok=8xgJD_sy)
Health check up for the rivers
Posted on 14 Oct, 2016 06:16 PMA severe crisis is plaguing the rivers in India.
![The Krishna river, Wai, Maharashtra. (Source: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/krishna_river_1.jpg?itok=kyV1exAD)
Who cares for a canal?
Posted on 14 Oct, 2016 06:49 AMLong-time Kottur resident Narayanan’s earliest memories of the Buckingham canal are those of the famed salt and timber-laden wooden catamarans of the 1950s and the 60s. A namesake of the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, the erstwhile governor of Madras, the canal was initially constructed as a brackish water-navigation channel in the early 1800s, connecting the north of Madras with Ennore.
![Elevated MRTS rail line right on the canal in Adyar (Image: Seetha Gopalakrishnan, IWP)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/bc_0.jpg?itok=qjMWNjee)
Can we build castles without sand?
Posted on 14 Oct, 2016 05:45 AMSand is today the most consumed raw material in the world after water. From building infrastructure to making glass, silicon chips, solar panels and even detergents and toothpastes, sand is an omnipresent element of our living.
![Illegal mining affects the natural course of the river, its flood-regulation capacity and the groundwater levels.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/18786183543_9c510fc748_o_1.jpg?itok=9ANjzxDI)
Empty fields remain as schemes fail
Posted on 13 Oct, 2016 01:20 PMPhaguni Ho hails from East Singhbhum district in Jharkhand. Come March, Phaguni’s husband will migrate to Chennai to work as a daily wager at a construction site. Unable to handle the small farm in Singhbhum alone, she has given it on lease to another farmer. “I have to look after my four children and livestock.
![Phaguni is one of the victims of the crisis in farming.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/padma.jpg?itok=eEN2ob0Y)
Ways to keep arsenic away
Posted on 11 Oct, 2016 10:12 PMFor villagers at Madhusudan Kathi, the handpumps serving water from an unprotected source led to arsenic contamination, making water from these pumps risky to drink.
![Arsenic removal unit developed by Arup Sengupta, Lehigh University, Bethlehem at Howrah, West Bengal. (Source: Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/arsenic_removal_unit.jpg?itok=SFeqo1VW)
New Supreme Court bench to hear Cauvery dispute
Posted on 11 Oct, 2016 02:38 PMCauvery dispute: New Supreme Court bench constituted
![Cauvery river (Source: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/cauvery_2.jpg?itok=9khop4Nz)
River transport projects on development track
Posted on 10 Oct, 2016 10:36 AMGovernment starts river transport project with eight waterways
![River transport project work in progress. (Source: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/cauvery_3.jpg?itok=JWOSOCjC)
A losing battle
Posted on 08 Oct, 2016 10:30 AMAt the recently concluded Woodpecker International Film Festival held at Sirifort Auditorium, New Delhi, Abdul Rashid, who works for Educational Multimedia Research Centre (EMMRC) in the University of Kashmir, was awarded Young Green Filmmaker 2016.
![Abdul Rashid receives the nomination certificate during WIFF 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/thumb_dsc08198_1024.jpg?itok=NZkynnB7)