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Uttar Pradesh
Water vending machines: How equitable are they?
Posted on 05 Dec, 2015 02:34 PMA water ATM, as the name implies, is a sort of a water vending machine similar to bank ATMs except that in a water ATM, money goes in to the machine in return for water. These machines, which run on a cash as well as a prepaid card or smart card system are built, owned and operated by private companies that have rights over public resources such as land and water.
![Water vending machines at work (Source:Sarvajal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/girls_getting_water_from_atm.jpg?itok=K9iRQ_Ri)
2016 might show worse impacts of El Nino, predicts WMO
Posted on 01 Dec, 2015 08:51 PM2015 the warmest year since 1850: WMO
![Annual average temperature map (Source: Robert A. Rohde via Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/annual_average_temperature_map.jpg?itok=2-BKNtVp)
Be careful while bathing if you're in these six districts of UP!
Posted on 24 Nov, 2015 11:30 AMUP's rivers and groundwater are loaded with harmful effluents: CPCB
![View of the Yamuna in UP (Source: IWP Flickr Photo)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/2449965048_3684c8f1bb_z_1_0.jpg?itok=D7hsDrzE)
Is it possible to build resilience to climate change?
Posted on 13 Nov, 2015 10:57 PMGorakhpur of Eastern UP is not new to floods. Her people have understood and adapted to the flow and ebb of the waters that have been a part of their lives for long. People here have learned to live with the flood in tune with nature’s wayward ways. Though nature continues to play truant, recent years have seen an increasingy abrupt, uncertain and accelerated face of these disasters.
![‘For a safer future: Insights on climate resilience from India’: A film (Source: GEAG and TERI)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/floods2.png?itok=U0E9-1XZ)
Wildlife Board panel not to consider projects in and around protected areas
Posted on 11 Nov, 2015 08:23 PMPanel not to consider projects until eco-zones are clearly demarcated
![Sariska Tiger Reserve, Rajasthan (Source: Vasundhara Deogawanka via IWP Flickr Photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/2971840436_081ac5b177_z.jpg?itok=Tyo4sTPk)
Dolphins in the Ganga and its tributaries nearly doubles in 3 years
Posted on 12 Oct, 2015 09:30 PMGanga and its tributaries, except the Ramganga show increased dolphin numbers
![The Gangetic Dolphin (Source: Arati Kumar Rao)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/gangetic_dolphin1_0.jpg?itok=3NaZwNAa)
The connection between gender and safe sanitation in rural India
Posted on 02 Oct, 2015 04:28 PMSanitation coverage in India continues to display marked disparities in access to safe toilet facilities between urban and rural populations across economic and social groups despite some impressive gains made.
![Health and sanitation, the linkages (Source: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/women_and_toilets.jpg?itok=hxsrx72t)
Activists demand Environmental Impact Assessment for Yettinahole project
Posted on 29 Sep, 2015 05:05 PMSocial Impact Assessment alone not enough for Yettinahole, say activists
![River Nethravathi (Source: Parineeta Dandekar via SANDRP)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/dsc03688_0.jpg?itok=HcQH-EF9)
Godavari, Krishna rivers are interlinked
Posted on 14 Sep, 2015 10:21 PMGodavari, Krishna rivers interlinked
![Prakasam Barrage across Krishna river (Source: Subhash Chandra via Wikipedia)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/krishna_river_vijayawada.jpg?itok=MeIMk3Dm)
Okhla Bird Sanctuary takes a backseat to real estate development in Noida
Posted on 24 Aug, 2015 09:20 PMCentre approves bringing down protected zone around Okhla Bird Sanctuary from 10 km to 1
![Okhla Bird Sanctuary (Source: Amit Pratap via Wikipedia)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/okhla_bird_sanctuary.jpg?itok=9Ch7tUUo)