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Sharing water, reaping benefits

This study finds that smallholder farmers who undertake group micro irrigation through pooling of land and water resources greatly benefit through increase in productivity and profit margins.

Arjuna Srinidhi

Posted on 14 Apr, 2018 05:06 PM

Agriculture is of central importance to India’s economy with more than half of the workforce in the country depending on it for their livelihoods. However, it is increasingly being threatened due to climate-change-induced changing rainfall patterns and water scarcity having a negative impact on production.

Sprinkler irrigation in Narayanganj block, Mandla district, Madhya Pradesh (Image Source: WOTR)

Saving Jhabua’s children from fluorosis

INREM Foundation’s work helped develop protocols on designing proactive action on safe water and nutrition to help mitigate fluorosis in Jhabua.

Fluoride Knowledge and Action Network

Posted on 13 Apr, 2018 09:03 PM

In 2010, nine-year-old Kailash from Miyati village, Jhabua developed symptoms of skeletal fluorosis. Fluorosis, which affects millions of people in India, is a health issue caused due to high fluoride content in drinking water. Skeletal fluorosis is marked by deformed bones.

Nutrition garden developed in Jhabua for sustainable nutrition and resistance from fluorosis among villagers.

Yak faces threat of climate change

Nomads are beginning to notice increasing heat stress among yaks in the Indian Himalayas.

Dinesh C. Sharma

Posted on 12 Apr, 2018 11:37 AM

Yak--the lifeline of pastoral nomads in high altitudes of the Indian Himalayan region--is facing the threat of gradually rising temperatures in the region.

Yaks are used to very cold temperature and exhibits heat stress when the temperature increases. (Source: IWP Flickr photos)

Exhibition on ‘The River Ganga: India’s Iconic Water Machine’ at New Delhi, April 19-21, 2018 and Roorkee April 25-26, 2018

Visit this exhibition that provides the first comprehensive visualization of the hyper-engineered landscape of the Ganga at the American Centre, New Delhi and later at NIH, Roorkee.

Posted on 12 Apr, 2018 07:57 AM

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Power play chokes Korba

The video tells the story of residents of Korba and nearby villages who are affected by the fly ash from power plants which makes Korba the fifth critically polluted area in the country.

Makarand Purohit

Posted on 11 Apr, 2018 02:05 PM

Korba in Chhattisgarh is an industrial area which has a significant number of coal mines and thermal power plants. Fly ash is a byproduct of the thermal power plants and has become a significant problem for the residents of Korba now.

Fly-ash dust at CSEB thermal power plant in Korba.

There’s no better gift, Daan Toilet!

Assam’s Jorhat district inches closer to being open defecation-free, thanks to a novel initiative by the administration.

Pranjal Sarma

Posted on 11 Apr, 2018 11:49 AM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s pet project, Swachh Bharat that envisages an open defecation-free India by the year 2019 has witnessed many local administrations take drastic measures to get people to b

Baghmoria resident Bitul Gogoi poses in front of a newly constructed ‘Daan' toilet donated by Dr Richa Agarwala of Jorhat.

Down in the dumps: Delhi’s waste pickers’ saga

A study by Action India provides insight into Delhi’s recycling nightmare and its unacknowledged waste pickers.

Amita Bhaduri

Posted on 10 Apr, 2018 04:05 PM

Eight-year-old Meera (name changed) got ill after eating filthy food remains from a dump at Mansarovar park in Delhi. Children like her work in filthy environments, rummaging through hazardous waste with bare hands and feet. They play in these dumping ground strewn with syringes, scrap iron, rotting waste, solid and liquid household waste.