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Contamination, Pollution and Quality
Indian Railways gets notice for supplying poor quality water
Posted on 06 Apr, 2014 06:13 PMHC issues notice to Indian Railways over poor quality water
![Bottled water at railways (Source:India Rail Info)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/-1ldieigeg7ph6_0.jpg?itok=gnkXGfD2)
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)
Alternative farming method in Karnal
Posted on 05 Apr, 2014 01:24 PMKalwaheri is a village of over thousand households comprising mostly of small farmers and landless people tucked away in Karnal, Haryana. The district, once the birth place of the Green Revolution, is now far from green.
![Seed-fertilizer drill in use at Kalwaheri village](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/harpreet.jpg?itok=OkzwG7VV)
Fishing for shrimp in Haryana’s farmlands
Posted on 05 Apr, 2014 01:08 PMMile after mile of saline lands line the Delhi-Rohtak-Bhiwani stretch of the highway. Here, the land wasn't always saline, it became that way thanks to canal irrigation. Farmers have used extensive surface water, which has led to an increase in groundwater levels. This leads to the twin problem of waterlogging and salinity.
![Tiger shrimp production at Rohtak; Source: CIFE](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/tiger_shrimp_copy.jpg?itok=qERI59bu)
Deepor beel: Entangled in a net of dangers
Posted on 25 Mar, 2014 08:52 PM“Posua botah”, he said. “The wind is blowing from the west now so we cannot take you to the beel to show you how we catch fish. This wind cleans the water and we won’t get fish. 'Bhatial botah', when the wind blows from the east, the water turns muddy and the fish come up to the surface to breathe. That’s the best time to fish”, he explained.
![Deepor Beel awaits a fresh gush of life](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/deepor_beel_0.jpg?itok=j4wKWkws)
Barter by the beel
Posted on 25 Mar, 2014 08:33 PMThis was my first time here. I had heard of this festival, perhaps the only existing one in India, where barter takes place at such a scale. Jon Beel mela in Jon Beel, Jagiroad Assam- a historic festival where people from the hills and plains come together for a unique exchange of goods and agricultural produce near a moon-shaped wetland.
![Eatables laid out for exchange at Jon beel mela](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/dsc_0743.jpg?itok=IPEAN80q)
Fatehabad - Another Fukushima?
Posted on 25 Mar, 2014 08:14 PMNational Highway 10 passes through Badophal, a village in Fatehabad district of Haryana. The highway is lined by a tiny market and a point where several jeeps start and terminate. These jeeps are headed to Gorakhpur village, some 15 kms away via Kajal Heri, another village en route.
![Gorakhpur nuclear power plant site](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/board.jpg?itok=LKIeQso9)
The key to successfully managing groundwater in India
Posted on 23 Mar, 2014 10:47 PMDr. Himanshu Kulkarni is the Executive Director of the Advanced Center for Water Resources Development and Management (ACWADAM), a non-profit organisation in Pune. It is a premier education and research institution, which facilitates work on groundwater management through action research programmes and training.
![A study group observing groundwater in a well](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/dsc_0222tp.jpg?itok=ZG5mq6SO)
A village becomes water secure
Posted on 23 Mar, 2014 10:12 PMMewat, a historical region comprising of the present Mewat district of Haryana and parts of Alwar, Bharatpur and Dholpur districts of Rajasthan, lies in a semi-arid belt. It experiences variable rainfall annually and receives, on average, 336 mm to 540 mm, as per the Mewat Development Agency.
![Water scarcity in Mewat](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/women.jpg?itok=hCCebv4q)