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Conservation - Reducing Water Usage
Simhastha leaves farmers fuming
Posted on 12 Jun, 2016 07:38 PMRamesh Mali, a farmer in his late thirties, looks at his farmland nervously. It has been 13 days since the Simhastha Maha Kumbh festival, 2016, concluded. The district administration had acquired his four bigha land (approximately 0.64 hectares) for the festival. The barricades and the concrete left on his land give us the idea that the land is not fit for farming this season.
![Kshipra at Mangalnath Ghat, Ujjain](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/_dsc0285es.jpg?itok=t5zxZWcE)
Business interests and environmental crisis: A book review
Posted on 05 Jun, 2016 07:03 AMA number of Asian countries are going through environmental crisis. Nowhere is the impact felt so seriously than in India, where the crisis threatens to affect survival. It is also impacting biodiversity, ecology and livelihoods. In this context, it becomes important to understand how nature and the current environmental crisis are being addressed in policy discourses.
![Business profits and the environmental crisis (Source: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/enviroment.jpg?itok=brBjUxtQ)
Two states, a canal and a river
Posted on 17 May, 2016 11:21 AM‘Jat’ reservation and the rampage on a canal
![Munak canal to check seepage losses along the Western Yamuna Canal and to augment its supply](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/munak-clc1.jpg?itok=zfYuvxf_)
Israel 'hand-makes' more than 50% of its water
Posted on 10 Apr, 2016 10:11 PMThe Israeli water industry is one of the best in the world, and this is because of the country’s breakthrough in technological innovations in areas like desalination, drip irrigation and water security.
![Israeli Pavilion at India Water Week 2016 (Source: Israel Embassy, New Delhi)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/25648540793_277e645d35_z.jpg?itok=l_r-nMMK)
Water lessons from a ‘desert’ nation
Posted on 10 Apr, 2016 09:58 PMThe water scarcity that India is facing even before the onslaught of summers, and the plight of farmer’s in Marathwada have been making headlines every single day.
![Israeli Pavilion at India Water Week 2016 (Source: Israel Embassy, New Delhi)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/25646443374_076f11d482_z.jpg?itok=aJsk20_N)
Calculating the water footprint of buildings
Posted on 02 Apr, 2016 05:43 PMConstruction industry is a booming industry, with the real estate sector contributing heavily towards the country’s GDP.
![What is the water footprint of a building (Source: Wikipedia)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/ishtika_house_construction_-_saradas.jpg?itok=6EsebMMQ)
Maharashra issues water advisory for Holi
Posted on 22 Mar, 2016 06:05 PMReservoir levels dip, Maharashtra urges people to celebrate dry holi
![Holi being celebrated (Source: Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/barsana_holi_festival_1.jpg?itok=pyeDc9z4)
Jharkhand's octogenarian water warrior
Posted on 28 Feb, 2016 01:39 PMIt was 1961. Simon Oraon, a Class IV school drop-out began his journey against drought in Bedo, a tribal block of Ranchi, Jharkhand. An idealistic young man, he along with his fellow villagers began constructing earthen dams to capture rainwater for recharging groundwater.
![A water body revived at Bedo, Ranchi](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/bedo-water-body.jpg?itok=AQS1hghD)
Saved by tanks: The story of Puducherry’s Bahour commune
Posted on 16 Feb, 2016 10:13 AMThe East Coast of India is very much unlike its western counterpart both in terms of physiography and climatology.
![The Manapet tank in Bahour has an ayacut of around 110 acres, most of which is now urbanised (Image: Seetha Gopalakrishnan, IWP)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/24937329615_8f42b8b924_z.jpg?itok=7YlOGpGH)
Alarm bells ring for Delhi’s groundwater
Posted on 25 Jan, 2016 01:19 PMDelhi, home to 16.75 million people, is in the grip of a major water crisis. Statistics by the Delhi Jal Board for the year 2011 suggest that the water deficit stands at about 250 million gallons per day with the supply being 830 million gallons per day.
![Residents say they are forced to flout the groundwater extraction norms with illegal groundwater pumps in Narela in North-west Delhi due to insufficient and poor quality of water supplied.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/residents.jpg?itok=KvYNHZMG)