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Maharashra issues water advisory for Holi
News and policy matters this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 22 Mar, 2016 06:05 PM

Reservoir levels dip, Maharashtra urges people to celebrate dry holi
Holi being celebrated (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
Rajya Sabha approves the National Waterways Bill 2015
Policy matters this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 15 Mar, 2016 12:27 PM

Rajya Sabha gives a go ahead to the National Waterways Bill
Navigating rivers through simple boats (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)
Sutlej-Yamuna Link canal creates rift between Punjab-Haryana
News this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 15 Mar, 2016 12:10 PM

Punjab-Haryana at crossroads over the controversial Sutlej-Yamuna canal
Sutlej river in Punjab (Source: Harpreet Riat via Wikipedia)
World Culture Festival poses threat to the Yamuna
News this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 07 Mar, 2016 10:11 PM

Activists oppose Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's World Culture Festival along the Yamuna flood plains
Yamuna river in New Delhi (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)
Rs 38,500 crore allocated for MGNREGA in Budget 2016
Policy matters this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 29 Feb, 2016 09:56 PM

Agriculture, rural development and social sector is the focus of Budget 2016
Labourers building check dams under MGNREGS (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)
4 billion global population affected by severe water scarcity: NASA
News this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 23 Feb, 2016 12:16 PM

Groundwater levels are reducing all over the world: NASA analysis
A tubewell in Rajasthan (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)
Art of killing a river
Manoj Misra speaks on the much neglected area of the Yamuna river and its floodplains and why its mere clean-up is not enough--especially as the World Culture Festival approaches.
Manoj Misra
Posted on 22 Feb, 2016 01:19 PM

Recent permission granted to the Art of Living to hold the World Culture Festival in the Yamuna floodplains points fingers yet again at the fact that not much has been done to assure its safety. The rapid encroachment of the Yamuna floodplain has raised a few questions. Can the river sustain the rampant commercialisation of its floodplains?
NGT had in July 2015 slapped a fine on the Akshardham temple management for carrying out expansion without prior environmental clearance and without examining whether the expanded portion fell on the Yamuna’s floodplains (Source: Ramesh N G, Wikimedia Commons)
How did Indian rivers fare in 2015?
Namami Gange', big budgets, 'Yamuna Aarti', interlinking of rivers and many other plans were made by the government to better our rivers. Have they helped?
Swati Bansal
Posted on 30 Dec, 2015 12:33 PM

Government allocated Rs 4,173 crore for Water Resources and of this, Namami Gange received Rs 2,037 crore.
Ganga at Gadmukteshwar (Source: India Water Portal Flickr Photos)
20 sq.km forest area to be diverted for “blue and green, environment-friendly capital city” Amaravati
Policy matters this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 03 Nov, 2015 12:00 PM

Centre to allow diversion of a whooping 20 sq.km. forest area for Andhra's new capital
An undisturbed forest (Source: IWP Flickr Photo)
How much water should flow in the Yamuna?
Considered sacred, the Yamuna is gasping for breath today choking on the unprecedented load of sewage and industrial effluents that drain into it. Can its ecological flow be worked out?
Vikram Soni
Shashank Shekhar
Diwan Singh
Posted on 26 Oct, 2015 05:17 PM

Rivers are the not just the lifeline of our country, but life itself. We may revere them, even worship them but we continue to pollute, choke, and poison their waters. A river, its catchment area, and its floodplains have evolved over millions of years, and once damaged, may not be easy to reclaim.
For a river to be healthy & maintain all its associated functions, free flow must be close to 50-60% of the total flow all year round (Source: Wikimedia)
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