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Rivers: Not just clean them, revive them
Posted on 29 Dec, 2016 02:05 PMA river is a natural stream of fresh water fed by rain or melting snow during the monsoon. On its onward journey, many tributaries join in and the river and its tributaries form the drainage basin. The river collects the available runoff and groundwater discharge and flows into an ocean or a landlocked water body at the end of its journey.
![River Krishna at Wai (Source: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/n1.jpg?itok=dpeaD3qB)
Hyderabad water bodies unfit for even irrigation
Posted on 25 Dec, 2016 07:19 PMMost of Hyderabad water bodies reduced to cesspools
![Himayat Sagar lake in Hyderabad (Source: Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/himayat_sagar_lake_with_common_coots_in_hyderabad_w_img_8638.jpg?itok=NmK10jCB)
NGT takes note of Chambal river e-flow
Posted on 25 Dec, 2016 06:54 PMNGT seeks MP, Rajasthan's opinion on maintaining e-flow in Chambal river
![Chambal river near Kota (Source: Wikimedia commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/chambal_river_near_kota_rajasthan.jpg?itok=UbW1wZoC)
‘Have a selfish interest in environment’
Posted on 23 Dec, 2016 11:01 AMNoted environment lawyer Ritwick Dutta received the Bhagirath Prayas Samman at the recently concluded India Rivers’ Week. We catch up with him on his journey so far and how we can further expand the constituency of environment.
Q. Who was your idol and what did you learn from him/her?
![Ritwick Dutta (left) receives the Bhagirath Prayas Samman at India Rivers' Week.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/ritwick.jpg?itok=81QnPox8)
Anupam Mishra: The Gandhian I know
Posted on 23 Dec, 2016 10:25 AM“I remember I need to work on that article of yours. Will do that when I get better,” Anupam ji said taking my hands in his. He had gone weak, was in a lot of pain but still took out the time to attend the inaugural day of India Rivers’ Week (IRW) last month.
![Source: Ted Talks](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/anupam.jpg?itok=6Q_0SqAM)
Identifying WASH barriers
Posted on 22 Dec, 2016 10:31 PMAs night falls, women in Chempakaraman beach on the Pulluvila coastal belt in Thiruvananthapuram step out of their safe abode and leave for the open fields. The barking of stray dogs send a chill down their spine but still, these women brave the odds and venture into the darkness as it is an urgency.
![A coastal village with poor sanitation facilities in South India (Source: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/fishing_women.jpg?itok=-1vMiqAK)
Stunting in India: The sanitation connect
Posted on 22 Dec, 2016 11:57 AMOn Children’s Day on November 14 this year, two organisations in Odisha--Shramajeebee Sangathan (SJS), Malkangiri and Jeebika Suraksha Mancha, Kandhamal--organised a massive padayatra (street walk) in villages as an awareness drive and to mobilise communities to curb m
![Rally on nutrition awareness by Jeebika Suraksha Manch, Odisha (Source: Amir Khan)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/rally_for_malnutrition_awareness_by_jsm.jpg?itok=DJijwZfW)
Sanitation and the risk of sexual violence
Posted on 21 Dec, 2016 09:08 PMWhile nearly half of the world’s population (42 percent) lacks access to improved sanitation conditions, India is the worst performer in sanitation coverage, even below those countries with half of the households (53 percent) not having access to toilets.
![Lack of access to sanitation and the risk of sexual violence. (Source: India WASH Forum)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/sanitation_and_the_risk_of_sexual_violence.png?itok=rrlIKTlR)
Saving the Ganga, one step at a time
Posted on 21 Dec, 2016 09:11 AMAn aerospace engineer from IIT, Kharagpur, Siddharth Agarwal could have been drawing a fancy salary like any other 25-year-old if he hadn’t followed his passion.
![Siddharth Agarwal (Photo credit-Siddharth Agarwal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/12916694_10153341192037373_5456143043051880350_o.jpg?itok=05KgJG4m)
Open letter to Uma Bharti, Minister for Water Resources
Posted on 20 Dec, 2016 08:03 PMHon’ble Madam,
Namaskar,
![Chhatris on the banks of the Betwa river. (Source: Vadaykeviv Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/betwa_river.jpg?itok=OFaX5vlc)