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Braving the deluge: Chennai's worst December
Posted on 05 Dec, 2015 02:39 PMResidents were convinced that November was the worst but stock taking and rehabilitation had to wait a week longer as the maniacal rains of December took everyone by surprise and completely crippled the city. According the
![Rescue efforts underway in Kotturpuram, one of the Chennai's worst affected areas](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/23431905981_443a72901a_z.jpg?itok=BoKiTIUH)
Water vending machines: How equitable are they?
Posted on 05 Dec, 2015 02:34 PMA water ATM, as the name implies, is a sort of a water vending machine similar to bank ATMs except that in a water ATM, money goes in to the machine in return for water. These machines, which run on a cash as well as a prepaid card or smart card system are built, owned and operated by private companies that have rights over public resources such as land and water.
![Water vending machines at work (Source:Sarvajal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/girls_getting_water_from_atm.jpg?itok=K9iRQ_Ri)
The tragedy of the groundwater commons
Posted on 04 Dec, 2015 04:46 PMIndia's groundwater is under severe stress thanks to its burgeoning population, inadequate and irregular water supply, abuse of water resources, and changes in the groundwater recharge potential.
![Water well in Purulia, West Bengal (Source: India Water Portal Flickr Photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/4483255321_b378863084_z_1.jpg?itok=77w8NXu7)
Water filter use in India: Safety, luxury or a threat to the environment?
Posted on 04 Dec, 2015 07:49 AM
![Safe drinking water, a scarce resource (Source: Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/water_1_6.jpg?itok=7W026BmZ)
Springs are more than just a source of water for humans
Posted on 02 Dec, 2015 09:04 PM"If you do good work on the ground, policy will happen", says Himanshu Kulkarni of ACWADAM. This has proven to be in true at least in the case of springs.
![Springs not only provide humans with water but anchor entire ecosystems.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/banethi_spring.jpg?itok=HtPq6KL-)
Undisposed toxic waste still haunts Bhopal’s groundwater
Posted on 02 Dec, 2015 03:06 PM“When cool air blows over the city and it rains in Bhopal bringing welcome respite to its people, I fear that toxic waste is spilling into its groundwater”, says Rajesh Kumar who shows me around the 68-acre plant site of Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL).
![A poem that describes how the city was left destroyed is written on a wall near a memorial for those killed & disabled by the Bhopal gas tragedy, 1984](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/memorial.jpg?itok=J53qD4BG)
2016 might show worse impacts of El Nino, predicts WMO
Posted on 01 Dec, 2015 08:51 PM2015 the warmest year since 1850: WMO
![Annual average temperature map (Source: Robert A. Rohde via Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/annual_average_temperature_map.jpg?itok=2-BKNtVp)
Uttarakhand finally recognises the land rights of three villages displaced by Tehri dam
Posted on 01 Dec, 2015 08:44 PMThree villages displaced by Tehri dam finally recognised as revenue villages
![Tehri dam in the lean season (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/tehri_0_0.jpg?itok=P4N5GV2F)
Mainstreaming India’s water and climate concerns: Reflections before COP-21
Posted on 28 Nov, 2015 12:07 PM“Climate Change has taken on political dimensions, that’s odd because I don’t see people choosing sides over E=mc2 or other fundamental facts of science!” - Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist
![INDCs will take centre stage at COP 21-UN Climate Change conference in Paris (Source: France Bleu)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/x948x533_870x489_cop-paris-perspective-cropped.png.pagespeed.ic_.qw1uhfqt2w.png?itok=2XhSqYzC)
New CGWA guidelines mandate NOC for industries to extract groundwater
Posted on 24 Nov, 2015 05:45 PMIndustries can extract groundwater only after obtaining a NOC: CGWA
![Groundwater, a scarce resource (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/img_0796_0.jpg?itok=8KbJ_P1N)