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DDA allows waste dumping on Yamuna floodplains
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Swati Bansal
Posted on 04 Apr, 2019 06:42 AM

DDA allocates 42.5 acre plot on Yamuna floodplains for waste dumping
Yamuna river in New Delhi (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)
Bullet train project worries activists
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Swati Bansal
Posted on 27 Mar, 2019 03:15 PM

Activists seek President, PM intervention to protect mangrove trees in Maharashtra
A wetland in Mumbai (Source: IWP Flickr photos)
UN Environment Assembly adopts India's two resolutions
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Swati Bansal
Posted on 20 Mar, 2019 12:37 PM

UN Environment Assembly adopts resolutions on single-use plastics, nitorgen management piloted by India
Recycling of single-use plastic is a global challenge. (Source: IWP Flickr photos)
Protecting Surajpur wetland
Surajpur wetland faces the threat of habitat loss because of the proliferating real estate development in the area.
Amita Bhaduri
Posted on 13 Mar, 2019 05:29 PM

The migratory bird season is in full swing and avid bird watchers have flocked to Surajpur wetland to sight the charismatic Common Teal, Red-crested Pochard, Ferruginous Pochard, Bar-headed Goose, Greylag Goose, Northern Shoveler and Gadwall.
The forest department and local activists discuss the threats on Surajpur, an urban wetland encroached upon by private real estate as well as the government. (Image: India Water Portal)
Hazardous waste rules amended
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Swati Bansal
Posted on 13 Mar, 2019 03:34 PM

Centre amends hazardous and other wastes rules 2016 to ban import of solid plastic waste
Different types of plastic waste displayed at a sanitation park. (Source: IWP Flickr photos)
Leading a movement to revive a river
The work of river conservationist Mustaquim Mallah with help from local people to revive the Katha river is a good example that river conservation is possible through local participation.
Amita Bhaduri
Posted on 30 Jan, 2019 04:21 PM

People of Ramra, a village in the Kairana block of Shamli district of Uttar Pradesh have warm recollections of river Katha that joins the Yamuna below Ramra. Mustaquim Mallah, a 30-year old river conservationist recalls how his grandfather held many pleasant childhood memories of the river. "My great grandfather fished in this river.
A “one house, one pot” symbolic water donation movement was conducted over the years for river Katha. (Image: Mustaquim Mallah)
Demolish illegal prawn gheries in wetlands: HC to Odisha
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Swati Bansal
Posted on 30 Jan, 2019 10:50 AM

HC orders demolition of illegal prawn gheries in Odisha wetlands
A view of the Chilika lake in the evening. (Source: IWP Flickr photos)
Industries to pay for groundwater extraction from June
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Swati Bansal
Posted on 19 Dec, 2018 12:07 PM

Industries to pay water conservation fee for extraction of groundwater 
Groundwater to be payable from June. (Source: IWP Flickr photos)
Saving Ganga: Just clean-up won’t do
River Ganga’s uninterrupted flow is as important as making the river pollution free if the Ganga rejuvenation drive has to show desired results.
Amita Bhaduri
Posted on 13 Dec, 2018 02:37 PM

Until a few decades ago, the Ganga flowed with gay abandon and descended with rapidity into the plains. Today the waters have withdrawn from its banks and downstream of the hydropower and irrigation projects that have hindered its flow, the Ganga is totally dry.
The Ganga at Haridwar in Uttarakhand. Downstream of this, the river flow has reduced due to increased abstraction. (Image courtesy: Manas Chakrabarty; Wikimedia Commons, CC BY SA-4.0)
Himalayan State Regional Council constituted
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Swati Bansal
Posted on 18 Nov, 2018 06:34 PM

Himalayan council constituted for sustainable development of the Himalayas
A view of the Himalayas. (Source: IWP Flickr photos--photo for representation purpose only)
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