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Research Papers
Market value of treated wastewater will rise to rupees 1.9 billion in 2050
Posted on 29 Mar, 2023 07:26 PMThe market value of treated wastewater in India will be INR 830 million in 2025 and INR 1.9 billion in 2050 if we have the mechanism to sell it to select sectors, according to an independent study by the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW).
![Sewage treatment plant in Kavoor, Mangalore (Image: Asian Development Bank; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2023-03/8425511173_408f32a67a_o.jpg?itok=1UvDQqpO)
Jharkhand's agroforestry potential
Posted on 16 Mar, 2023 12:29 PMIn order to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including enhancing livelihood, decreasing poverty, preserving the environment and biodiversity, and reversing climate change, agroforestry areas should be expanded in a variety of ways.
![Agroforestry crops need land with sufficient soil moisture and low erosion for their continuous growth (Image: World Agroforestry)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2023-03/35843429021_21ee20345c_o.jpg?itok=m0npUk-J)
Water tankers help, but not “all” women
Posted on 07 Mar, 2023 12:11 PMAccessing water for daily needs has culturally and socially been considered as gendered domestic work and the task of collecting water in rural areas where water is scarce and fetching water is extremely tedious and time consuming.
![Women carrying water in Rajasthan (Image Source: Christopher Michel via Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2023-03/Women%20rajasthan.jpg?itok=kUayGnmc)
Poisoned waters of Kashmir
Posted on 27 Feb, 2023 03:15 PMPesticides and fertilisers have been used indiscriminately to increase crop yields and agricultural output in India and their excessive use has been feared to threaten human health as well as biodiversity through contamination of surface and groundwater resources.
![The Jhelum River flowing through Jammu to Kashmir, in India (Image Source: Bhoomikavinod via Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2023-02/Jhelum%20India.jpg?itok=TYX4Oyb8)
Locally comprehensible and actionable forecasts
Posted on 09 Feb, 2023 06:00 PMA recent study dealing with the Indian Sundarbans, the cyclone capital of India, uncovers how and why advances in scientific knowledge and technological developments are failing to enhance resilience of the marginal and vulnerable populations, instead continually unmaking their lived environments.
![Broken houses of village in Gosaba Islands as water flooded their houses after Cyclone Aila struck this island in Sunderbans in West Bengal (Image: Anil Gulati/India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2023-02/3582509964_b48dfafcd9_o.jpg?itok=CPVP5Cf1)
Study reveals Indian dams to lose 26% water storage capacity by 2050
Posted on 08 Feb, 2023 05:13 PMReservoir sedimentation is often seen as a site-specific process and is usually assessed at an individual reservoir level. At the same time, it takes place everywhere in the world. However, estimates of storage losses globally are largely lacking.
![Hirakud Dam is the longest dam in India (Image: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2023-02/14075678201_ae90869126_o.jpg?itok=ejQYM6Ix)
Heavy metals poison Veeranam lake in Tamil Nadu
Posted on 25 Jan, 2023 02:26 PMWetlands in India, under threat!
![A view of the Veeranam lake in Tamil Nadu (Image Source: Giri9703 via Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2023-01/Veeranam_Lake_-Kattumannar_koil_-Tamil_Nadu_-DSC_0015.jpg?itok=fAmdPKB8)
Blue-green infrastructure solutions for resilient cities
Posted on 23 Jan, 2023 06:57 PMUrban development in all forms impacts the natural landscape, changing vegetation cover, infiltration rates and hydrological (surface and sub-surface) flows. With increasing urbanization urban areas lose a host of natural infrastructure and ecosystem services as ecosystems are modified, degraded and/ or shrunk.
![Study indicates that blue-green spaces in core-city and peripheral areas are differentially impacted by the growing urban footprint (Image: Emmanuel Dyan)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2023-01/Law_Garden%2C_Ahmedabad.jpg?itok=FU0wz8XM)
Can rice residues be turned into wealth?
Posted on 22 Jan, 2023 11:26 AMSustainable management of surplus paddy residue in the Indo-Gangetic plain is a back-breaking task for farmers due to lack of viable options. Eventually, farmers prefer to incinerate it mindlessly.
![A controlled burn on long-term conservation agriculture trials (Image: CIMMYT)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2023-01/4688689431_04ed7e3a34_o.jpg?itok=yqYHUXpP)
Preventing floods through grassland conservation
Posted on 21 Jan, 2023 02:54 PMErratic rainfall patterns and the risk of floods in mountain landscapes
![Grasslands interspersed with pockets of montane Shola forests in the Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu (Image Source: Anand Osuri via Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2023-01/Nilgiris.jpg?itok=Iz9yrfl0)