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September 5, 2024
India's sewage future
The current state of play regarding sewage treatment standards in India
Clogged pipes: India's sewage treatment crisis (Image: Trey Ratcliff, Flickr Commons; CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
September 2, 2024
NGT’s uniform standards: A controversial approach to sewage management
Recommendations made by an expert committee, the NGT's subsequent orders, and a critical analysis of these developments
Drum screens at Bharwara sewage treatment plant (Image: India Water Portal)
August 30, 2024
India’s efforts at water pollution control: Legislative frameworks and real-world impacts
This article traces the evolution of the legislative framework for water pollution in India and its implications for wastewater treatment standards in the country. 
Open drains in Alwar (Image Source: IWP Flickr photos)
August 22, 2024
From pollution to solutions
The journey of sewage treatment standards and the challenge of treating India’s growing wastewater
Need to fix wastewater effluent standards (Image: Kristian Bjornard)
August 1, 2024
Weed wars: The hidden costs of herbicide use in rice
Recognising the limitations of relying solely on herbicides, a strategic shift towards preventive measures is crucial
Relying solely on chemicals to keep weeds at bay isn't sustainable and can harm the environment. (Image: Needpix)
June 12, 2024
The ripple effect of safe drinking water on health under Jal Jeevan Mission
Leveraging research to optimise water programs for improved health outcomes in India
Closing the tap on disease (Image: Marlon Felippe; CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons)
Extreme weather warning!
Climate change is manifesting itself through modified rainfall patterns, extreme events and temperature fluctuations. What effect will these have on water, sanitation and health in India?
Chicu Lokgariwar
Posted on 11 Jul, 2013 04:04 PM

We sat in a plush climate-controlled room and deliberated climate change as the outside world collapsed around us..
The flooded Bagmati river
Invite to the ‘India Water Forum (IWF 2013)', The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi
A deliberation on the various aspects of water use efficiency to develop a consensual understanding on the water use management
Posted on 08 Jul, 2013 05:09 PM

Organisers 

The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)

About the conference
TERI
Floods in Assam affect one lakh people - Dhemaji worst hit
Floods in Assam, bio-toilets in Konkan railway stations and damage of hydropower project in Uttarakhand are highlights of this week's news.
Ravleen Kaur
Posted on 08 Jul, 2013 11:31 AM

 Flood fury hits Assam

 
The flooded plains of Brahamputra
The Bhilai Steel Plant, a symbol of modern India, is running out of iron ore
Once filled with dense forests, the Dalli Rajhara area which supplies iron ore to the Bhilai Steel Plant, is now a reddish vast expanse taking a toll on the villagers and their water resources.
Makarand Purohit
Posted on 06 Jul, 2013 09:31 AM

For 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
From worshipped to diseased - the slide of the Karamana river in Kerala
The Karamana, which flows through Kerala's capital city Thiruvananthapuram is now so polluted that it is closed to residents. Will the city figure out a way to clean it up?
Aarti Kelkar Khambete
Posted on 05 Jul, 2013 07:55 AM

Karamana, 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
Call for abstracts, International Symposium on Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM - 2014), CWRDM, Kozhikode, Kerala
IWRM is the process of supporting the synchronized development and management of water, land and related natural resources, in order to maximize the resultant economic and social welfare
Posted on 04 Jul, 2013 12:11 PM

Organisers

Centre for Water Resources Development and Management (CWRDM)

Venue

Kozikhode, Kerala

About the symposium
IWRM 2014
The Himalayan states - are they India's crown jewels or distant cousins?
People in India revere the Himalayas but most may not know much about its people. A common platform to highlight issues that the mountain peoples face is the need of the hour.
Chicu Lokgariwar
Pushkin Phartiyal
Posted on 04 Jul, 2013 10:25 AM

Left, 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
Seawater entering coastal towns in Goa causes big problems
Our first data story, which analyses the sea water intrusion in Goa, helps you look at this data in a simple way – analytically and visually.
Shubham Singh
Posted on 01 Jul, 2013 03:18 PM

India 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
Everything you need to know about water purifiers
Water purifiers contain different types of filters but what kind of contaminant does each type filter out? What should you look for when buying a water filter for your home?
Sumathi Sivam
Posted on 01 Jul, 2013 11:00 AM

Pure, 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
Toilet under the open sky for 73% of rural India
Continuing open defecation in rural India, possible epidemic outbreak in Uttarakhand and draft bills on water laws are the highlights of this week’s news.
Sabita Kaushal
Posted on 01 Jul, 2013 10:00 AM

Toilet 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
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