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Rivers
Worst drought in 115 years hits Kerala
Posted on 02 Jan, 2017 10:33 PMKerala hit by worst drought in 115 years
![Parched land during drought in India. (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/3204443460_8d38ce367a_z_0_0.jpg?itok=paYEnMmH)
When riverbed becomes real estate
Posted on 02 Jan, 2017 08:17 PMShalu’s household was evicted from Koyla Basti of the Yamuna pushta (embankment), a massive slum cluster on the banks of the Yamuna river in the year 2004. Earthmoving machines bulldozed thousands of homes at the site which was to host the Commonwealth Games of 2010.
![Forced evictions before the Commonwealth Games. (Source: Housing and Land Rights Network)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/yamuna-eviction-hrln.jpg?itok=qUyG5488)
NGT takes note of Chambal river e-flow
Posted on 25 Dec, 2016 06:54 PMNGT seeks MP, Rajasthan's opinion on maintaining e-flow in Chambal river
![Chambal river near Kota (Source: Wikimedia commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/chambal_river_near_kota_rajasthan.jpg?itok=UbW1wZoC)
Saving the Ganga, one step at a time
Posted on 21 Dec, 2016 09:11 AMAn aerospace engineer from IIT, Kharagpur, Siddharth Agarwal could have been drawing a fancy salary like any other 25-year-old if he hadn’t followed his passion.
![Siddharth Agarwal (Photo credit-Siddharth Agarwal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/12916694_10153341192037373_5456143043051880350_o.jpg?itok=05KgJG4m)
Open letter to Uma Bharti, Minister for Water Resources
Posted on 20 Dec, 2016 08:03 PMHon’ble Madam,
Namaskar,
![Chhatris on the banks of the Betwa river. (Source: Vadaykeviv Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/betwa_river.jpg?itok=OFaX5vlc)
Soon a single tribunal for all inter-state river disputes
Posted on 19 Dec, 2016 12:45 PMGovernment decides to create a permanent tribunal for all inter-state river disputes
![Cauvery river in Karnataka (Source: IWP Flickr photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/2330822341_1b4aa606c2_z_0.jpg?itok=PiFSngzn)
Gujarat fails to conserve its wetlands
Posted on 19 Dec, 2016 12:30 PMSix years on, Gujarat fails to form wetland panel
![Hamirsar Lake, Bhuj, Gujarat (Source: IWP Flickr photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/3098051568_648b8b58fc_z.jpg?itok=5YLe2QIV)
NGT cancels illegal salt pans in Sambhar Lake
Posted on 13 Dec, 2016 07:19 AMGood news for Sambhar Salt Lake
![Sambhar Lake, India's largest salt lake. (Source: IWP's Flickr photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/2971840426_eb67304faf_z.jpg?itok=go_RIKLM)
A notification to ensure ecological flow of rivers
Posted on 12 Dec, 2016 11:27 PMI have objected so many times to the change in the name of Ministry of Water Resources to the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation. It shows where the priority of the government lies. It says that all the rivers need to be developed except the Ganga which needs to be rejuvenated.
![Boys wait to collect coins thrown into the Ganga at Kanchla, Uttar Pradesh.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/ganga_at_kanchla_badaun.jpg?itok=RvxsZ_rT)
Breathing life into Baitarani
Posted on 12 Dec, 2016 12:13 PMPranab Choudhury has been actively engaged with the causes of the poor and the environment for more than a decade.
![Pranab Choudhury](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/thumb_dsc0041_1024.jpg?itok=Zn5i5BzD)