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Gender-sensitive response to the climate crisis
Posted on 14 Aug, 2020 11:19 AMA crowd of people jostling by the ticket counter at Jhansi railway station in Uttar Pradesh; men and women, some with families in tow, boarding trains to Delhi, Lucknow, Mumbai and other big cities. These are common sights during the summer months at Jhansi, a major town and railway junction.
![Women and girls spend a considerable amount of their time in fetching water. (Image: Romit Sen)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/pic_2_1.jpg?itok=W61Cp1SI)
Groundwater extraction: NGT gets strict with commercial entities
Posted on 12 Aug, 2020 08:41 AMNGT bans granting general permissions for groundwater extraction to commercial entities
![NGT gets strict with commercial entities (Source: IWP Flickr album)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/32493765187_81650bd26f_c_1_0.jpg?itok=VbwhA7fP)
Monsoon experiences a countrywide deficit of 10 percent in July
Posted on 12 Aug, 2020 08:27 AMMonsoon 2020: Countrywide deficit of 10 percent in July; September may have heavy rains
![July experiences rain deficit of 10 percent (Source: IWP Flickr photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/5074883626_33da0b2985_z_0_0.jpg?itok=0wiNPoII)
Amphan’s impact on farming and livelihood in Sunderbans
Posted on 11 Aug, 2020 05:46 PMThe Amphan cyclone has disfigured the lives of people living in the Sundarbans. Houses have been torn apart, farms have been filled with brackish water making the land unsuitable for farming and betel leaves have been destroyed. People in the Sundarbans are in a life-threatening situation with makeshift shacks to live in and no means to earn a living.
![Betel (popularly used in paan) plantation is a major occupation in the Sundarbans. Pulak Bhakta is assessing the damage done to his plantation right after Amphan. The plantation is spread over two and a half bigha of land. According to Pulak, the total loss he has suffered is around INR 3 lakhs. Pulak already bears the burden of a loan which he had taken to set up his plantation. His future seems uncertain and bleak now. (Image: WaterAid/ Subhrajit Sen)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/l1_0.jpg?itok=H8B88b9L)
Building awareness to changing behaviour: A paradigm shift with digital technology
Posted on 11 Aug, 2020 03:12 PMUrban India, in the grip of the pandemic
![Rural training at the doorstep (Image Source: UNICEF)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/training2.jpg?itok=Gvy4v5yY)
Banking on rainwater harvesting
Posted on 11 Aug, 2020 10:27 AMNational Water Mission’s (NWM) has launched a campaign ‘Catch the rain’ on a pan India basis to nudge the states and stakeholders to create appropriate rainwater harvesting structures (RWHS) suitable to the climatic conditions and sub-soil strata before the onset of monsoon.
![As a part of the campaign, work is being done on various interventions such as water for productive use, improving irrigation practices, creating water recharge structures (Image: Pikist)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/rain-river-lake-landscape-reflection-trees-weather.jpg?itok=AtNNMf1F)
Bihar floods: 'Living on 2.5 Kg flattened rice’
Posted on 10 Aug, 2020 03:55 PMTwo weeks ago, the Kanakai River flowing through Kishanganj rendered dozens of families homeless. While the people in the region are staying under plastic sheds, the government has turned a blind eye to their plight.
Mohammadin is also one of them. He tells the India Water Portal,
![Locals engaged in repair of broken embankment in Darbhanga (Source: Umesh Kumar Ray)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/img-20200801-wa0010.jpg?itok=xn2N6Bf9)
"Everything’s devastated, and no one is listening to us!"
Posted on 08 Aug, 2020 06:52 PM"All of a sudden, water entered the house at night. Goods and cattle were submerged. There is no place to eat or drink. We have been in trouble for three days, but no one has come to help us.” The elderly Gauri Singh complains, with mixed feelings of anger, pain and helplessness.
![Floodwater enters Satjoda village of Chapra (Source: Umesh Kumar Ray)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/bihar_flood.png?itok=XXZYZ-Xn)
Interspecies love in a flood-ravaged Assam village
Posted on 08 Aug, 2020 03:51 PMSalmora in Majuli river island in Assam is not any ordinary village. Located on the southeastern corner of the island, surrounded by the mighty Brahmaputra on three sides, this village is remarkable in many ways.
![Potters' families belonging to Kumar community of the village make earthen pots (Image: Mitul Baruah)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/salmora_pottery_photo_mitul_baruah.jpg?itok=VTVz42vA)
India-UK team tackles antimicrobial resistance spread in waterways
Posted on 07 Aug, 2020 11:30 AMAn estimated 58,000 babies die in India every year from superbug infections passed on from their mothers, whilst drug-resistant pathogens cause between 28,000 to 38,000 extra deaths in the European Union every year.
![The Musi river in Hyderabad, which has high concentrations of antibiotics released from production facilities (Image: Newcastle University)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/musi_river_india_standard.jpg?itok=dwsR91Od)