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How a poor labourer became a rich farmer
Posted on 27 Jul, 2017 07:59 PMVasant Baburao Parkale, a 52-year-old farmer, has become a role model for many farmers in the drought-prone Marathwada region. His determination and the will to excel in life have helped him to transform his dreams into reality.
![Vasantrao Parkale (Source: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/vasant_parkale_tp.jpg?itok=Voo-3kJd)
Only a few large dams have disaster plans: CAG report
Posted on 25 Jul, 2017 04:07 PMOut of 4,862 large dams in the country, only 349 have disaster plans in place: CAG report
![Floodwaters unsettle Muzaffarpur. (Source: IWP FLickr photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/2246719146_1b717bbdcf_z_1.jpg?itok=VFASvadh)
Urbanisation: Pushing farmers out of fields
Posted on 17 Jul, 2017 02:46 PMA dominant characteristic of a peri-urban site is its transition out of an agrarian economy due to industrialisation and urbanisation. This usually manifests in the form of agricultural land either left barren or sold for developmental activities and farmers and agricultural labourers looking for an alternative source of livelihood.
![Agriculture is slowly vanishing from peri-urban areas. (Source: SaciWATERS)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/saciwaters_blog.jpg?itok=dXCvzwlQ)
Floating national park calls for help
Posted on 13 Jul, 2017 05:43 AMIn a country as diverse as India where the mountain meets the ocean and deserts blend into forests, one hallmark of beauty that is often left out of the travel catalogues is the outstanding Loktak lake in Manipur.
![Loktak lake (Source: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/loktak_lake_0.jpg?itok=S4L9132p)
Managing willows in Wular lake
Posted on 10 Jul, 2017 05:07 AMThe devastating flood in 2015 in the Kashmir valley affected more than 2.5 lakh houses and displaced about 5.5 lakh people. The economic loss was massive.
Many researchers and experts believe that careful conservation and protection of the lakes, ponds and wetlands in the Kashmir valley could have reduced the scale of the devastation to a large extent.
![Wular lake seen from Saderkote Park. (Source: Wikipedia)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/1200px-wular_lake.jpg?itok=g6TBwWlr)
The good clams of Ashtamudi
Posted on 03 Jul, 2017 08:03 PMSpanning an area of 61 sq km, the Ashtamudi lake is considered the gateway to the backwaters of Kerala. While the lake on the outside radiates with natural beauty, there is a notable treasure nesting deep within its waters--the short-neck clams.
![(Source:Ken Hammond, Wikimedia)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/littleneck_clams_usda96c1862.jpg?itok=CyX-J2gJ)
Power at play in water business
Posted on 03 Jul, 2017 05:49 AMThe informal water market plays a crucial role in meeting the drinking and domestic water security of peri-urban communities. The increasing reliance on private informal water vendors in all our study villages speaks of their significance.
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A jungle comes to the city
Posted on 02 Jul, 2017 01:56 PMIt’s July now and the temperature is slowly dipping in Delhi. Only a few migratory birds wintered at the Yamuna biodiversity park remain. Others have left for Central Asia and Siberia. Some species of summer terrestrial migrants are expected to arrive while some others can be seen enjoying the park’s wetlands.
![Black spotted butterfly at Yamuna biodiversity park. (Image: Prabhmeet Singh, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/1200px-black_spotted_butterfly.jpg?itok=t7rKYcWY)
Every drop that matters!
Posted on 27 Jun, 2017 10:12 PMThe people of the Marathwada region have been facing severe water crisis for more than three decades. Despite adverse circumstances, the Akoladev panchayat in the Jalna district has set an example for other panchayats by solving their water woes through community participation and effective water harvesting measures that suit their geographic terrain.
![Jivrekha river, Akoladev (Source:Dilasa)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/dscf2613es.jpg?itok=RaOu7rTb)
Sourcing water: When informal is the norm
Posted on 05 Jun, 2017 11:02 AMIn the first hour of our field work in Malkaram--another village in peri-urban Hyderabad--for the project Ensuring Water Security in Metropolitan Hyderabad, one thing became very evident.
![People depend on informal sources of water in peri-Urban Hyderabad. (Source: SaciWATERs)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/saci_0.jpg?itok=x8CGxui5)