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Farm ponds need pondering
Posted on 18 Sep, 2020 09:31 AMAgriculture and inefficient water use in India
![Farm ponds, often touted as magic wands to tackle water scarcity, have raised a number of concerns (Image Source: Ninad Sargar)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/farm_pond_ninad1.jpg?itok=B32JdR-H)
Improving city-wide sanitation service delivery in small towns of Odisha
Posted on 16 Sep, 2020 06:32 PMTucked away in the slums of Dhenkanal, a small community offers a glimpse of how sanitation solutions have changed hundreds of lives for the better. Till recently, post rains in the absence of proper drainage, the clogged lanes were causing a lot of inconvenience to the residents of Parhatiya Sahi slum.
![Community meetings in the slums of Dhenkanal under Project Nirmal (Image: SCI-FI, CPR)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/lead_8.jpg?itok=0btQGDlf)
Webinar on 'Ecological disruptions in Kosi Basin: Political economy and community perspective'
Posted on 15 Sep, 2020 10:55 AM18th September 2020 11am – 1pm
Australia Aid, The Asia Foundation, GEAG
Sanitation empowered her
Posted on 14 Sep, 2020 03:58 PMIn a corner of the Kathagada locality in the Parhatiya Sahi slum of Dhenkanal stands a small neat house. Surrounded by a well-tended garden that is planted with fruit trees, flowers and grass, this is Reena Rani Singh’s home. She is a multi-purpose local leader and is a member of the local Self Help Group (SHG), Mahila Arogya Samiti and Slum Sanitation Committee (SSC).
![As a part of Project Nirmal, community structures including Slum Sanitation Committees (SSCs) and Ward Sanitation Committees (WSCs) were constituted at the slum and ward level (Image: SCI-FI, CPR)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/reena.jpeg?itok=xuoHTagO)
Satyagrah by the river calls for action against erosion
Posted on 12 Sep, 2020 08:42 AMSince last week, people of Birjain village have been protesting against erosion by the river bank. They are demanding that the government should put in efforts to prevent river erosion and save their houses, otherwise they will continue with their Satyagrah and perform Jal Samadhi (suicide by drowning). Sattore, a flood-prone Panchayat has about 3000 houses.
![Satyagrah by the river (Image source: Umesh K Ray)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/fb_img_1598857887099.jpg?itok=8QkaSzCc)
Uttarakhand: Reaching the unreached
Posted on 11 Sep, 2020 07:48 PMPeople in remote hamlets left out by previous schemes like Swajal and Sector Wide Approach Program of the Uttarakhand Jal Nigam and Uttarakhand Jal Sansthan longed for household-level piped water supply for drinking and domestic purposes.
![Women trudged long distances daily to fetch water for their basic household needs in Rupail (Image: People's Science Institute)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/psi1.jpg?itok=i7WDa172)
The fast disappearing glaciers of Kashmir
Posted on 11 Sep, 2020 02:27 PMKashmir’s glaciers are melting at frightening rates. Kolahoi glacier, the largest glacier in Kashmir Himalayas, has lost 23 percent area since 1962 and has fragmented into smaller parts!
Glaciers, frozen rivers of ice
![Kolahoi glacier in Kashmir (Image Source: Irfanaru via Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/kolahoi.jpg?itok=xVHWCAJ4)
Expression of Interest (Eol) for Sector Partner, Jal Jeevan Mission
Posted on 11 Sep, 2020 01:18 PMMany organizations, individuals already working in the field of water have shown genuine interests to be partner in this pan-India programme, Jal Jeevan Mission.
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All hopes lost for the flood-hit in Bihar
Posted on 11 Sep, 2020 08:06 AM“We went through a lot of trouble over the month. By God’s grace, we are still surviving."
![Havoc of floods in Saharsa (Source: Umesh K Ray)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/img-20200820-wa0022.jpg?itok=q1IfVMFn)