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Yamuna
Art of Living guilty of damaging Yamuna floodplains
Posted on 16 Aug, 2016 09:57 AMWorld Culture Festival damaged Yamuna floodplains, concludes NGT
![The front view of the giant stage under construction for the World Culture Festival. (Source: Yamuna Jiye Abhiyan)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/lead_4_0_0.jpg?itok=HEGp0GGK)
UP unable to protect Yamuna, Taj Mahal: NGT
Posted on 08 Aug, 2016 11:37 PMNGT raps UP government over Yamuna's pollution near the Taj Mahal
![Yamuna river near the Taj Mahal. (Source: Ekabhishek via Wikipedia)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/taj_mahal_reflection_on_yamuna_river_agra.jpg?itok=-hUAdhMj)
Riverbed off limits, farmers fume
Posted on 01 Aug, 2016 08:23 PMChampa Devi has been working as a sharecropper on a two-acre farm at Nilothi village in west Delhi. Until a few years ago, the water she used for irrigation came from the Najafgarh drain that empties into the Yamuna river. This form of cultivation using waste water was a norm in the area till sometime ago.
![Thousands of farmers like Champa Devi (in pic) who were growing edible crops or doing fodder cultivation on the riverbed and its floodplains took the brunt of the court’s decision.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/champa-kewat_0.jpg?itok=ot4vx_ZF)
Once a drain, now a sewer
Posted on 05 Jul, 2016 09:33 PMOriginally a darya (creek), locally known as Nizammuddin darya, Barapullah is a key drain of Delhi today. Barapullah gets its name from a pul (bridge) built across it by the then emperor Jahangir's chief eunuch, Mihir Banu Agha.
![Construction debris of the Barapullah flyover project chokes the nallah.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/barapullah_elevated_corridor.jpg?itok=psADdBUW)
Rural India walks more than 500m for drinking water
Posted on 25 Jun, 2016 09:13 AMRural India walks too far to quench their thirst
![Rural India walks far to get water (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/17285080046_69d2e8c3d3_z.jpg?itok=bo_NWNeM)
Art of Living pays NGT compensation
Posted on 12 Jun, 2016 08:43 PMArt of Living pays environment compensation
![Front view of the giant stage at the World Culture Festival under construction in February, 2016 (Source: Yamuna Jiye Abhiyan)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/lead_4_0.jpg?itok=VzEAdZp8)
Bye bye El Nino; more rains this year!
Posted on 01 Jun, 2016 10:02 PMAbove normal rainfall for India as El Nino comes to an end
![Downpour in Bihar (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/2245920465_b010a7ff2f_z_1_0.jpg?itok=5v0q1y_u)
Formulate National Plan on drought management: SC to Centre
Posted on 17 May, 2016 05:28 PMSC directs Centre to prepare National Disaster Plan, implement MGNREGA, Food Security Act to tackle drought
![Drought affected area in Karnataka (Source: Pushkarv via Wikipedia)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/drought_affected_area_in_karnataka_india_2012_0_0_0.jpg?itok=iZdPKjyI)
NGT disallows any construction around Bengaluru lakes
Posted on 10 May, 2016 09:59 AMNo construction around Bellandur-Agara lakes: NGT
![Residential complexes around a lake in Bengaluru (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/23458775979_100e74c42f_z_0.jpg?itok=IVf9DqFw)
4 crore native tree species to be planted along the stretch of the Ganga
Posted on 29 Mar, 2016 11:24 AMCentre releases DPR on forestry intervention for Ganga river
![Ganga river near Gadmukteshwar (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/6171494645_920f644b53_z_1.jpg?itok=unlw0F1E)