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Citizens' Rights and Duties
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)
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)
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)
Will the Rs. 392 crore fund help Raipur's growing slums?
Posted on 10 May, 2014 12:11 PM"The life of the people living in slums in any part of the country is a curse", says Rohit Jagat, a 30 year old resident of Shakti Nagar slum in Raipur.
![Tankers supply water to Maharajh Bandh](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/dsc04798-children_of_maharajh_bandh_area_taking_drinking_water_from_takers-tp_0.jpg?itok=Ay0dMx-v)
Tribals of Tawa reservoir left leader-less
Posted on 07 May, 2014 11:19 AMTawa reservoir in Hoshangabad, Madhya Pradesh, irrigates several thousand hectares of land. It is here that Sunil Gupta, popularly known as Sunil Bhai, rose to prominence in 1995 when he led the struggle of the tribals displaced by the reservoir.
![Sunil Bhai; Source: Samarendra](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/sunil_bhai.jpg?itok=P6TaJz_w)
NGT prohibits commercial extraction of groundwater in Maharashtra
Posted on 05 May, 2014 10:33 AMNGT prohibits groundwater extraction in Maharashtra's 12 districts
![Groundwater extraction (Source: Karuna Society)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/borewell-6.gif?itok=zQX2COas)
More power, but no water security to MP and Gujarat
Posted on 22 Apr, 2014 11:10 PMMore power, but no water security to MP and Gujarat, observes SANDRP
![Sardar Sarovar Dam in Gujarat (Source: Wikimedia)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/sardar_sarovar_dam_2006_india.jpg?itok=vI3GL3pa)
Water for friends- for free!
Posted on 05 Apr, 2014 03:17 PM“Water flows humbly to the lowest level. Nothing is weaker than water, yet for overcoming what is hard and strong, nothing surpasses it.”– Lao Tzu
![Water reservoir at Mima village](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/woman_collecting_water_from_village_reservoir_at_mima.jpg?itok=_VxgT34p)
Water privatisation, a failed model?
Posted on 05 Apr, 2014 03:12 PMSince water reforms were introduced in India in the 1990s, water privatisation has been propagated as a panacea to the sector's problems.
![JUSCO disconnected Nirmal Basti's water connection](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/dsc05941tp.jpg?itok=_4EMSlyJ)
A picture paints a thousand words? So do comics!
Posted on 31 Mar, 2014 10:31 PMAs a run up to World Water Day 2014, India Water Portal conducted a Grassroots Comics workshop with Field Facilitators, Barefoot Engineers and other field workers of the Dhara Vikas Programme.
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