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Ecology and Environment
Centre's 100 day plan: Construct one toilet per second
Posted on 15 Jul, 2014 08:00 AMCentre all set to construct 5.2 million toilets by August 31
![Toilet built under Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/3220088155_6ede9578fe_z.jpg?itok=3AJk0Uyr)
Mark no-go zones for hydel projects in Sultej basin: CEIA
Posted on 08 Jul, 2014 12:23 PMImpact study demands for a no-go zone for hydel projects in Sutlej
![Sutlej river in Kinnaur (Sanyam Bahga)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/640px-kinnaur_392.jpg?itok=qNCZjAfT)
Teachings of the East Calcutta Wetlands
Posted on 07 Jul, 2014 04:06 PMThe East Calcutta Wetlands are an unappealing mixture of poverty, sunshine and wastewater. The people here have patiently and wisely transformed this ecosystem into an oportunity for food, employment and purified water- for free!
![Ecology & Traditional Wetland Practice](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/east_calcutta_wetland_0.png?itok=LH0AXl8v)
Genocide by indifference
Posted on 07 Jul, 2014 03:40 PMThe Ramganga has many impediments in the course of its 655 kilometer stretch from its origin in the mountains of Uttarakhand to its confluence with the Ganga in Uttar Pradesh. In addition to the Kalagarh Dam, there are already two barrages along its length and now a third one is coming up a few kilometers from Bareilly.
![Bareilly barrage across the Ramganga in UP](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/bareily_barrage_lead.jpg?itok=LJpVLu3A)
Compensate affected farmers: HC to Narmada Authority
Posted on 30 Jun, 2014 09:07 AMHigh Court raps Narmada Authority over incomplete canal work
![State of an irrigation canal at Khargone district](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/9713919205_c25c00559b_z.jpg?itok=jlifJWn-)
Dam' safety and management!
Posted on 24 Jun, 2014 09:10 PMTwenty four students were washed away in the Beas river in Himachal Pradesh earlier this month. The students, all from an engineering college in Hyderabad, were picknicking in the river on their way back from the tourist town of Manali. While cooling their heels in the knee deep water and clicking photographs, they missed the rising wall of water that engulfed them in minutes.
![Dam induced terror (Source: Matu Jan Sangathan)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/vishnuprayag.jpg?itok=rqcz8S26)
Closure notice issued to Coca Cola's UP plant
Posted on 24 Jun, 2014 04:43 PMClosure notice issued to Coca Cola's UP plant
![Coca Cola bottling plant (Source: S. Subramanium)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/coca_cola_bottling_1629227g.jpg?itok=7tMmd2ls)
Centre approves raising Sardar Sarovar dam height
Posted on 17 Jun, 2014 11:20 PMSardar Sarovar dam height to be raised by 17m
![Sardar Sarovar Dam (Shahakshay in Wikipedia)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/sardar_sarovar_dam.jpg?itok=p9Llco7K)
Water allocation to stay the same for Telangana and Andhra
Posted on 10 Jun, 2014 11:08 AMTelangana formed but no change in water allocation
![Telangana boundaries (Source: Aditya Madhav)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/telangana_express_secunderabad_-_sirpur_express_route_map.png?itok=FIw9sBg2)
CSE tells new govt to reinvent strategy for river clean-up
Posted on 10 Jun, 2014 11:07 AMApply new strategy for cleaning rivers: CSE
![Ganga at Gadmukteshwar](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/6172024170_3151074271_z.jpg?itok=rLwcNLSw)