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July 18, 2023
जलांगी नदी को पश्चिम बंगाल चुनाव में 58 वोट मिले
पश्चिमबंगाल पंचायत चुनाव-2023 में पर्यावरण एक बड़ा अहम मुद्दा बना। नदी और पर्यावरण राजनीतिक दलों के एजेंडे से कहीं अधिक आम लोगों के आकर्षण का केन्द्र बने।
पश्चिमबंगाल पंचायत चुनाव
February 7, 2023
जोशीमठ व हिमालय में हो रही भीषण आपदाओं के मुद्दे पर मातृ सदन में तीन दिवसीय (12 से 14 फरवरी, 2023) अंतर्राष्ट्रीय सेमिनार का आयोजन
जोशीमठ व हिमालय में हो रही भीषण आपदाओं को लेकर मातृ सदन में तीन दिवसीय (12 से 14 फरवरी, 2023) अंतर्राष्ट्रीय सेमिनार का आयोजन किया जा रहा है। सम्मेलन में श्री जयसीलन नायडू, जो दक्षिण अफ्रीका के पूर्व राष्ट्रपति व महान राजनीतिज्ञ श्री नेल्सन मंडेला जी के सरकार में मंत्री रह चुके हैं, देश के विभिन्न अन्य बुद्धिजीवी व पर्यावरणविद मौजूद रहेंगे।
मातृ सदन
June 22, 2021
Delhi Govt gets stricter in tackling Yamuna river pollution
Policy matters this fortnight
Yamuna flows under (Image source: IWP Flickr photos)
November 18, 2019
Manual scavenging persists in India due to weak enforcement of laws
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November 13, 2019
NGT pushes to ban RO purifiers for water with TDS below 500 mg/l
Policy matters this week
A domestic RO water purifier
November 11, 2019
Climate shocks and gender vulnerabilities in the Upper Ganga basin
Study points to vulnerabilities faced by women in the mountains and plains of Uttarakhand, which is likely to only increase with climate change.
Ganga's riverflow at Rishikesh in Uttarakhand (Image courtesy: Ankit Singh; Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0)
Training on Monitoring and Evaluation of Development Interventions
A three day training session being held on Monitoring and Evaluation of Development Interventions by Sambodhi Research and Communications Pvt. Ltd. at New Delhi
Posted on 01 Oct, 2015 12:46 PM

Course Objectives:

At the completion of the training programme, the participants would be able to
Activists demand Environmental Impact Assessment for Yettinahole project
News this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 29 Sep, 2015 05:05 PM

Social Impact Assessment alone not enough for Yettinahole, say activists
River Nethravathi (Source: Parineeta Dandekar via SANDRP)
A pond comes to life
Hundreds of villagers pitched in to revive a village pond at Bapugaon, a village in Rajasthan, to make it water and food secure.
Centre For Community Economics and Development Consultants Society (CECODECON)
Amita Bhaduri
Posted on 22 Sep, 2015 10:42 AM

It had not rained for awhile and the tiny cracks in the earth in Bapugaon were opening up. This little village in Chaksu tehsil of Jaipur was yet again faced with a drought in the mid 1980s. The situation was aggravated in 1986 when the river Dhund, an important water source for Bapugaon, went dry. Since then, both the quantity and quality of water started deteriorating.
More than just physical rehabilitation of a water body, says Kalyan ji of Bapugaon
Parched lips, barren lands and the scramble for water in Maharashtra
What are the factors that have caused the Marathwada region to be known as the 'suicide capital for farmers'? More importantly, do farmers here have some respite before the monsoon disappears?
Aarti Kelkar Khambete
Posted on 13 Sep, 2015 07:44 AM

Rainfall map of India (Source: IMD)
Staring at drought (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
What does being 'water stressed' mean for India and her neighbours?
India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and China rank in the top 50 of the world’s most water-stressed countries projected for 2040. Our data analysis shows the stress to the environment, economy, and people.
Sabita Kaushal
Posted on 10 Sep, 2015 06:25 PM

A worldwide ranking of water stressed nations by the World Resources Institute
India ranks 31 in the world’s most water-stressed countries projected for year 2020 (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
Bisalpur revisited--10 years after protesters were shot, killing 5
Despite many plans, neither rural nor urban are water secure thanks to the Bisalpur Dam since it was constructed in 2007.
Amita Bhaduri
Posted on 10 Sep, 2015 01:20 PM

Ten years ago five farmers were shot protesting the diversion of waters from Bisalpur dam to Jaipur city, located about 130 kms away.
Kisan Sewa Samiti, Chaksu struggling for drinking water allocation from Bisalpur dam (Source: CECODECON)
Access to water data: Implications for transboundary relations in the Ganges river basin
Despite the enactments of RTI laws and insistence for openness in the government, access to information regimes on transboundary rivers has not changed at a fundamental level in South Asia.
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Posted on 05 Sep, 2015 12:21 PM

Citizens right to access information on water, climate and environmental issues
A view of the Sharada river at Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
People in Kinnaur are making all efforts to stop further destruction'
The Environics Trust collaborated with Himalaya Niti Abhiyan to assess the impact of hydropower projects in Kinnaur, Himachal Pradesh. R Sreedhar of Environics Trust talks about this to IWP.
Manu Moudgil
Posted on 24 Aug, 2015 01:01 PM

Around 21 major hydropower projects are proposed in the upper Satluj catchment area of Himachal Pradesh. In 2013, The Environics Trust collaborated with Himalaya Niti Abhiyan to assess the impact of these projects on the people and ecology of the geographically-fragile Kinnaur region.
At Pangi village, several houses have suffered damage due to a hydel project.
Training programme on 'Water Conflicts in India'
The training programme aims to foster and strengthen a community of people working in the water sector and who need to engage with legal issues.
Posted on 18 Aug, 2015 04:27 PM

The Forum for Policy Dialogue on Water Conflicts in India (Forum to be brief), the National Law Universi
Colourful fabrics lead to murky waters
The textile printing cluster at Sanganer near Jaipur presents a Catch-22 situation on the right to pollution free water versus the right to livelihoods.
Amita Bhaduri
Posted on 17 Aug, 2015 09:55 PM

Amanishah nallah flowing through Sanganer, a town located 15 kms from Jaipur, is getting murkier by the day as the the textile hand printing industry in the area is getting more prosperous.
Bleaching, dyeing and printing of cottons causes water pollution at Sanganer
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