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Smoking is injurious for oceans
Not many smokers realise that their discarded cigarette butts are not just a litter problem. It is a huge toxic waste for the environment, especially the water bodies.
Sabita Kaushal
Posted on 25 Oct, 2016 07:04 PM

Senthil takes a long puff of the cigarette before flicking it on the road nonchalantly. “I started smoking on the sly when I was in school,” he reminisces. “Sixty years later, I still do the same, only more smokes per day.”
Discarded cigarette butts on a beach. (Source:Wikimedia Commons)
Save rivers with traditional knowledge
Winner of the 2016 Emerging River Professional Award, Tero Mustonen talks in length about how utilising traditional knowledge can help in dealing with the challenges rivers face.
Swati Bansal
Posted on 19 Oct, 2016 10:53 PM

The Emerging River Professional Award is an initiative of the International RiverFoundation. The award recognises and fosters early career professionals who have demonstrated innovation, excellence and leadership in the areas of rivers, basins or river-dependent communities. The winner receives a cash prize of AU$5,000. 
Tero Mustonen receives the 2016 Emerging River Professional Award. (Image source: International RiverFoundation)
Centre drafts National Water Framework Bill 2016
Policy matters this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 17 Oct, 2016 09:19 AM

Bill to manage river basins out
Ganga at Garmukhteshwar (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)
Selling packaged water above MRP punishable offence
News this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 17 Oct, 2016 09:02 AM

Jail term for selling packaged water above MRP: Government
Mineral water bottles (Source: Pixabay.com)
Water not for profit
Water privatisation has a history of failure in India. Why are we still engaging private operators to manage our waters?
Makarand Purohit
Posted on 16 Oct, 2016 08:58 PM

In August 2016, the Karnataka government gave Abu Dhabi-based businessman B.R. Shetty permission to privatise the iconic Jog Falls to make it a perennial waterfall and to develop it into a tourism hotspot.
NMC employees union and residents of Nagpur protest water privatisation.
Get wealthy with water
This year’s winner of Thiess International Riverprize, Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper talks to India Water Portal on how their river restoration efforts became a success with public participation.
Swati Bansal
Posted on 15 Oct, 2016 11:59 AM

The Thiess International Riverprize is a globally renowned prize that is awarded by the International RiverFoundation to those demonstrating outstanding results in the sustainable river basin management, restoration and protection across the world.
Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper receive the Thiess International Riverprize at the 19th International River Symposium. (Image Source: International RiverFoundation)
New Supreme Court bench to hear Cauvery dispute
Policy matters this week
Sabita Kaushal
Posted on 11 Oct, 2016 02:38 PM

Cauvery dispute: New Supreme Court bench constituted
Cauvery river (Source: India Water Portal)
Karnataka not to release water to TN
Policy matters this week
Sabita Kaushal
Posted on 03 Oct, 2016 02:13 PM

No water to TN till a special state legislature session takes a call: Karnataka 
Cauvery river. (Source: India Water Portal)
Call for Applications: HI-AWARE Academy for Doctoral Students
A training programme which aims to create an interdisciplinary network of PhD students and senior scholars in ‘Water and Adaptation Studies’ in the South Asian region.
Posted on 26 Sep, 2016 11:17 AM

About the HI-AWARE Academy
Cauvery crisis: Karnataka to move SC for more time
Policy matters this week
Sabita Kaushal
Posted on 25 Sep, 2016 09:40 PM

Karnataka to seek more time to release Cauvery water
Cauvery river, Karnataka. (Source: Ashwin Kumar via Wikimedia Commons)
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