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Contamination, Pollution and Quality
Invite to the ‘India Water Forum (IWF 2013)', The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi
Posted on 08 Jul, 2013 05:09 PMOrganisers
The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
About the conference
![TERI](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/teri.png?itok=e9mX0-KS)
Floods in Assam affect one lakh people - Dhemaji worst hit
Posted on 08 Jul, 2013 11:31 AMFlood fury hits Assam
![The flooded plains of Brahamputra](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/320px-brahmaputra_plains_in_goalpara_district_of_assam_857.jpg?itok=0o5j0Ouh)
The Bhilai Steel Plant, a symbol of modern India, is running out of iron ore
Posted on 06 Jul, 2013 09:31 AMFor the last 50 years, the Bhilai Steel Plant, which is India's largest integrated steel plant has got its supply of iron ore from Dalli Rajhara's mines. Dalli Rajhara, a municipality which is also an industrial city is located 90km south of Durg in Chhattisgarh. It is a part of the Rajhara group of mines. Iron ore mined in this area are of two types - hematite and magnetite.
![Dalli Rajhara Mines in Chhattisgarh](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/ongoing_mining_work_in_dalli_rajarah_mines-small.jpg?itok=oo6kGQ99)
From worshipped to diseased - the slide of the Karamana river in Kerala
Posted on 05 Jul, 2013 07:55 AMKaramana, the pride of Thiruvananthapuram and an important source of drinking water for the city, is now dreaded and diseased. Parts of the river have been closed to residents now because they are so polluted. What was once a thriving river is now being used as a garbage dump. I decided to trace the path of the river to see how bad the damage really was.
![Karamana river from the Karamana Bridge](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/karamana_river_1.jpg?itok=ekiqGMJv)
Call for abstracts, International Symposium on Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM - 2014), CWRDM, Kozhikode, Kerala
Posted on 04 Jul, 2013 12:11 PMOrganisers
Centre for Water Resources Development and Management (CWRDM)
Venue
Kozikhode, Kerala
About the symposium
![IWRM 2014](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/iwrm.png?itok=3FrbTp7n)
The Himalayan states - are they India's crown jewels or distant cousins?
Posted on 04 Jul, 2013 10:25 AMLeft, right, up, down...bump, bump, bump! That was me… being thrown about on all sides of the jeep that I was in. No, I wasn’t off-roading! I was on an investigative mission to Pinrow, a village in Nainital district, Uttarakhand from my home. I was investigating the impact of the state government's push for 100% of child births to happen in the hospitals.
![Nandadevi at sunrise](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/nandadevi_at_sunrise.jpg?itok=Di51jQ9J)
Seawater entering coastal towns in Goa causes big problems
Posted on 01 Jul, 2013 03:18 PMIndia waterportal’s data finder has over 300 datasets. A non-data or non-analytics person can feel overwhelmed trying to pull out important information and understand it. A data story will help do just that.
![Process explaining seawater intrusion](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/image_lead.gif?itok=YGLmiIi-)
Everything you need to know about water purifiers
Posted on 01 Jul, 2013 11:00 AMPure, clean and safe drinking water isn’t available easily these days. Growing population, industrial development and environmental degradation are all causes for this. Given this situation, it becomes even more important for us to be aware of purification techniques and the available water purifiers in the market to ensure that our drinking water is of good quality.
![Filter of a water purifier](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/water_purifier1.jpg?itok=THQAQZgR)
Toilet under the open sky for 73% of rural India
Posted on 01 Jul, 2013 10:00 AMToilet under the open sky for 73% of rural India
The Planning commission has found that 73% of rural India practices open defecation despite many sanitation programmes encouraged by the government. The main reason for this is the unavailability of toilets.
![Open defecation continues due to lack of toilets](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/od.png?itok=c-yfw14s)
Another Bangalore lake becomes a garbage dump
Posted on 27 Jun, 2013 03:48 PMSarakki Lake is one of the bigger stand-alone lakes in Bangalore, and was once a great year-round recharge area for Sarakki, Jaraganahalli, Puttenahalli, Chunchagatta and Kothanur. It is now a cesspool of sewage, and is polluting the air, water and land around it. India Water Portal volunteer Sucheta Ramprakash covered
![Garbage fills Sarakki Lake](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/7347964444_87e30d832e.jpg?itok=mrezTqC0)