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Climate Change
Battling Covid-19 in Jharkhand
Posted on 11 Jun, 2020 04:07 PMJharkhand is a state dominated by tribal communities located in eastern part of India. Agriculture, NTFP (Non-timber forest produce) collection and daily wage laborers are the prime source of income for rural Jharkhand.
![Distribution of ration to cope with the impacts of the pandemic (Image Source: WOTR)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/jharkhand6.jpg?itok=_fLcYYpI)
Living through Cyclone Amphan and Covid-19: Climate change and water security
Posted on 07 Jun, 2020 11:33 AMThe nomenclature of cyclones and hurricanes is developed much in advance through multilateral processes in the region. The name Amphan (Sky in Thai and Akash in Bangla) was chosen from a long list of potential disasters long back.
![Millions of people in India and Bangladesh lost their means of employment, food, water and homes in one go during the cyclone (Image: Srikanth Kolari/ActionAid India)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/amphan-actionaid_0.jpg?itok=v5DT_Pc5)
Cyclone Amphan wreaks havoc in West Bengal
Posted on 27 May, 2020 08:33 AMCyclone Amphan causes widespread destruction in West Bengal
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Impact of climate change on river basins in India
Posted on 21 May, 2020 07:29 PMIndia has many reasons to be concerned about climate change. Its large population depends upon climate-sensitive sectors such as agriculture and forestry for its livelihood.
![Global warming (Image: Sunando Roy, Flickr Commons, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/global-warming-sunando_roy.jpg?itok=5ryHmo0m)
IMD revises the onset and withdrawal dates for monsoon
Posted on 04 May, 2020 02:51 PMIMD revises monsoon calendar for the country
![Image used for representational purposes only (Image Source: India Water Portal on Flickr)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/monsoon.jpg?itok=8O31C6qh)
Global infections from water poised to rise with climate change
Posted on 24 Apr, 2020 04:11 PMClimate change triggered heat waves threaten water availability
Ninjallama rues as she remembers, " It was a terrible summer. The heat wave was killing. Three people died in my village. People with skeletal fluorosis suffered .. "
![Water contamination, a growing concern (Image Source: IWP Flickr photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/floodsc_0.jpg?itok=nEjvIAPh)
One in every two individuals will be living in water-stressed regions by 2050: Report
Posted on 23 Mar, 2020 12:27 PMWorld Water Development Report 2020: Tropical countries to be worst hit by water stress
![Banks of the Ramganga river (Source: IWP Flickr photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/14337026206_d0ce3f3579_c.jpg?itok=drshny4m)
Water, the first line of defence against climate change
Posted on 22 Mar, 2020 09:50 AMWater insufficiency is a challenging problem globally with 1 in 10 people lacking a basic water pump or covered well close to home.
![Shantilata uses a cloth to filter out the high iron content in the salty water, filled from a hand pump, in the village Sitapur on the outskirts of Bhadrak, Bhuvaneshwar, Odisha (Image: WaterAid/ Anindito Mukherjee)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/wateraid_anindito_mukherjee_600_px.jpg?itok=mpEmficC)
Media Fellowship for Climate Change Reporting in the Himalayan Region
Posted on 14 Mar, 2020 06:01 PMAbout the fellowship:
Groundwater in 30 districts in Delhi-NCR contaminated, reveals 2019 data
Posted on 12 Mar, 2020 02:31 PM30 districts in Delhi-NCR had contaminated groundwater in 2019: Water Minister
![A resident in Delhi with her extracted groundwater (Source: IWP FLickr photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/residents_0.jpg?itok=eXsy8gee)