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Holi-Bajoli hydropower project shifts banks
Posted on 21 Jul, 2014 04:59 AMI could just about see a small makeshift shelter with a yellow canopy. As I made my way through the small stream and climbed uphill, I saw a JCB machine trying to clear a path. Further up the road, female voices speaking the local dialect started to emerge. A small hearth surrounded by utensils and jars of tea, sugar and lentils greeted me at the entrance.
![Himachal women protest Holi-Bajoli hydel plant](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/dsc03655.jpg?itok=MsGWErML)
Centre's 100 day plan: Construct one toilet per second
Posted on 15 Jul, 2014 08:00 AMCentre all set to construct 5.2 million toilets by August 31
![Toilet built under Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/3220088155_6ede9578fe_z.jpg?itok=3AJk0Uyr)
Union Budget 2014-15 sets aside Rs. 2037 crore for Ganga's revival
Posted on 15 Jul, 2014 07:51 AMRs. 2,037 crore allocated for Ganga's revival in Union Budget 2014-15
![Ganga river in Gadmukteshwar](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/6171494645_920f644b53_z_0.jpg?itok=BzcxKS0m)
Small hydels: Are they really clean, green and safe?
Posted on 11 Jul, 2014 06:10 PMNow in a dismantled state, the 4.8 MW Aleo II hydro project, situated between Aleo and Prini in Kullu, Himachal Pradesh made it to the news recently, but for the wrong reasons. The reservoir of the newly built Aleo II hydro project on the Aleo nallah, a tributary of the Beas river, collapsed during its very first trial run on January 12, 2014.
![Aleo II Hydro Project, Kullu, Himachal Pradesh](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/aleo_ii_0_0.jpg?itok=ba6nfAm0)
Mark no-go zones for hydel projects in Sultej basin: CEIA
Posted on 08 Jul, 2014 12:23 PMImpact study demands for a no-go zone for hydel projects in Sutlej
![Sutlej river in Kinnaur (Sanyam Bahga)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/640px-kinnaur_392.jpg?itok=qNCZjAfT)
June 2014: The driest June in 113 years!
Posted on 08 Jul, 2014 09:40 AMIndia receives only 85.8 mm of rain this June
![June 2014: driest since 1901](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/11187099345_653d8def04_z.jpg?itok=I7d3Om38)
Clean water: Courtesy sand and microbes
Posted on 07 Jul, 2014 10:11 PMEvery year, nearly 600,000 children in India die of illnesses associated with unclean drinking water [1]. Inspite of this, 2 out of every 3 households still do not treat their drinking water [2] and half of the rural water supply, where 70 percent of India’s population lives, is routinely contaminated with toxic bacteria.
![Biosand filter (Source: CAWST)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/biosand_filter.png?itok=jgj2Jein)
Teachings of the East Calcutta Wetlands
Posted on 07 Jul, 2014 04:06 PMThe East Calcutta Wetlands are an unappealing mixture of poverty, sunshine and wastewater. The people here have patiently and wisely transformed this ecosystem into an oportunity for food, employment and purified water- for free!
![Ecology & Traditional Wetland Practice](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/east_calcutta_wetland_0.png?itok=LH0AXl8v)
Genocide by indifference
Posted on 07 Jul, 2014 03:40 PMThe Ramganga has many impediments in the course of its 655 kilometer stretch from its origin in the mountains of Uttarakhand to its confluence with the Ganga in Uttar Pradesh. In addition to the Kalagarh Dam, there are already two barrages along its length and now a third one is coming up a few kilometers from Bareilly.
![Bareilly barrage across the Ramganga in UP](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/bareily_barrage_lead.jpg?itok=LJpVLu3A)
A water supply system that even Delhi would envy
Posted on 06 Jul, 2014 08:28 PMVisitors and the Uttarakhand Tourism Department liken the mountain to 'devbhoomi' or the heavens but it isn't often that a villager of the area echoes those sentiments. Most of them are weary of the unending struggle to live in harmony with those steep slopes that make all manner of infrastructure difficult.
![Madan Lal gazes at a water supply scheme](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/p1040104.jpg?itok=EoOMJ518)