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Use clean coal, NGT tells Mahagenco
Posted on 27 May, 2014 01:02 PMNGT tells Mahagenco to use clean coal
![Fly ash pollution (Source: The Hindu)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/fly_ash_0.jpg?itok=cJp1NxKT)
Access to clean water and sanitation: the rural-urban gap closes
Posted on 27 May, 2014 12:21 PMThe rural-urban divide in access to sanitation reduces: UN
![Many rural areas have free toilets](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/sani.jpg?itok=AW3-JY8g)
Sunshine water in Uttarakhand
Posted on 21 May, 2014 10:50 AMChurerdhar, a mountain village in Uttarakhand suffered from a lack of safe potable water. Here, hand pumps used to dry up in the summer and a natural spring 1.5 km away from the cluster of homes that housed 300 people, was the only other source of water. That was its plight in 2002.
Existing water sources
![Sunshine water for Chureddhar Village, Uttarakhand](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/pic1_0.png?itok=Pif70zb7)
NGT orders Singrauli power plants to supply drinking water to residents
Posted on 21 May, 2014 08:48 AM![Singrauli Coal Mines (Source: UA Satish on Flickr)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/singrauli.jpg?itok=DVQtKAn0)
The hundredth farmer
Posted on 20 May, 2014 11:22 PMI remember a farm pond that I once visited in Maharashtra. It shone like a square sapphire in that dry land, securely held by tall earth embankments. On the other side of one of those embankments was a parched and dying field. When I asked the farmer why it wasn't irrigated, he asked me to give him a pump.
![Carefully mulched and fed by drip irrigation](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/sobans_farm_lead.jpg?itok=RfyKMQpD)
Environmentalists wary of Modi's green agenda
Posted on 20 May, 2014 10:47 PMEnvironmentalists wary of Modi's green agenda
![Launch of Narmada-Kshipra interlink (The Hindu)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/kshipra.jpg?itok=RBQKMPKh)
Open Happiness' or open a can of worms?
Posted on 16 May, 2014 08:11 PM1999 was an interesting real estate year for Mehdiganj village in Uttar Pradesh. Someone began buying up land adjoining a soft drink factory owned by the Parle Company. They also began buying land from the farmers except the farmers had no idea as to whom they were selling the land to. As the boundary wall rose up, problems arose too.
![Nandlal Master - fighting Coca Cola since 2002](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/nandlal.png?itok=bV2yB4EQ)
More crop per drop in the predicted weak monsoons
Posted on 15 May, 2014 03:28 PMWater and agriculture are closely linked in our country where 60% our net sown area is rain-fed. Indian agriculture is undoubtedly dependent on the monsoon where good rains have meant enhanced agricultural production, and a weak or bad monsoon has lowered production thereby impacting the economy.
![Water and agriculture ( Source: Wikipedia)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/farmer_0.png?itok=b6Sbo8kQ)
The lost Khazans of Goa
Posted on 13 May, 2014 10:46 AMKhazans are reclaimed lands from the river or the sea. A created network of bunds protects the agricultural fields and adjoining villages from tidal flows. Khazan lands have three main features: sluice gate, poim and two types of bunds.
Bunds
![Aerial view of Khazan seen in Zuari river](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/dsc00424.jpg?itok=wMPTztIf)
10% of Odisha coast prone to erosion
Posted on 12 May, 2014 08:38 AM10% of Odisha coast prone to erosion: Study
![Coastal erosion (Source: GFGD)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/n36908548_35312894_3365.jpg?itok=EQDQ0XJm)