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Policies, Laws and Regulations
Centre drafts National Water Framework Bill 2016
Posted on 17 Oct, 2016 09:19 AMBill to manage river basins out
![Ganga at Garmukhteshwar (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/6172024170_3151074271_b_0.jpg?itok=7r5iZrd-)
Water not for profit
Posted on 16 Oct, 2016 08:58 PMIn August 2016, the Karnataka government gave Abu Dhabi-based businessman B.R. Shetty permission to privatise the iconic Jog Falls to make it a perennial waterfall and to develop it into a tourism hotspot.
![NMC employees union and residents of Nagpur protest water privatisation.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/img-20160202-wa0006_0.jpg?itok=vgAipuVy)
An open letter to Uma Bharti, Minister for Water Resources
Posted on 14 Oct, 2016 03:35 PMHon’ble Madam,
Namaskar.
![View of Betwa river (Source: Manual Menal, Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/betwa_manual-menal-small_0.jpg?itok=6Tl7Gba5)
A losing battle
Posted on 08 Oct, 2016 10:30 AMAt the recently concluded Woodpecker International Film Festival held at Sirifort Auditorium, New Delhi, Abdul Rashid, who works for Educational Multimedia Research Centre (EMMRC) in the University of Kashmir, was awarded Young Green Filmmaker 2016.
![Abdul Rashid receives the nomination certificate during WIFF 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/thumb_dsc08198_1024.jpg?itok=NZkynnB7)
Voices that go unheard
Posted on 08 Oct, 2016 09:45 AMMinket Lepcha always felt close to nature and the environment since her childhood, thanks to her upbringing in the picturesque Darjeeling. Though she had spent many years in Delhi, studying and working in corporate firms, her interest in community development, environment and culture brought her back to her home town.
![Minket Lepcha receives Young Green Filmmaker award at WIFF 2016](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/thumb_dsc08212_1024.jpg?itok=wzjrKK2A)
Crores of rupees to be raised for irrigation projects
Posted on 11 Sep, 2016 08:43 PMNABARD to raise Rs 77,000 crore to fund 100 prioritised irrigation projects
![Irrigation canal from the Bhima dam. (Source: Nvvchar on Wikipedia)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/irrigation_canal_taking_off_from_the_dam_0.jpg?itok=wiRGG06v)
Water for everyone
Posted on 08 Sep, 2016 05:55 PMThe management of water resources in India has always been a challenge. From the British era till now, the various governments that ruled India have grappled with the fundamental issue of water equity.
![Pradeep Purandare](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/pradeep_purandare.jpeg?itok=UyKDlXVr)
![Access to drinking water, a basic human right. (Source: IWP flicker photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/handpump_1.jpg?itok=76mUN645)
SC urges Karnataka to share water with TN
Posted on 06 Sep, 2016 09:18 AMRelease water to Tamil Nadu: SC to Karnataka
![Cauvery river at Hogenakal, Karnataka. (Source: IWP Flickr Photos via Claire Arni and Oriole Henri)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/cauvery_river.jpg?itok=HqvX2P0_)