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Ecology and Environment
Angry, swirling waters
Posted on 07 Nov, 2016 09:55 PM“The gravity of the Kedarnath disaster in June 2013, which killed thousands of people, shocked the public almost to the point of numbness”... begins the forward by Bill Aitken in Hridayesh Joshi’s account of the disaster Rage of the river: The untold story of the Kedarnath disaster. It’s a sentence which will whirl in your mind while you read Joshi’s book.
![Gori floods (Source: Chicu Lokgariwar, India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/gori_floods_0_0.jpg?itok=_JV7wkqA)
MGNREGA facing fund crunch
Posted on 07 Nov, 2016 09:30 AMMore fund over the budgetary allocation sought for MGNREGA
![Labourers build check dams under MGNREGA. (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/mgnrega_work_0.jpg?itok=K-PALuaF)
Should wildlife suffer in the name of water?
Posted on 06 Nov, 2016 09:47 PMSet in India-ka-dil, Madhya Pradesh, is the unending expanse of Panna.
![Ken river flows through Panna tiger reserve. (Source: K Gagan, Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/ken-river-panna-tiger-resreve-k-gagan-wikimedia-commons.jpg?itok=bMyWQzRZ)
Maha battle over water
Posted on 03 Nov, 2016 12:07 PMIt’s a battle that dates back to 1957. Two states of India--Madhya Pradesh (MP) and Odisha--have fought fiercely over the water of the Mahanadi they share. When Chhattisgarh was carved out of MP in 2000, it inherited both the Mahanadi and the conflict with Odisha over its water.
![Mahanadi river](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/dsc05648tps.jpg?itok=RqUC3Qns)
Saving inland fisherfolk
Posted on 03 Nov, 2016 06:07 AMIn his late 30s, Nilesh Heda is a renowned expert on issues related to fishing communities and wetland ecology. While doing his PhD on fish diversity, he worked with the fishing communities in Vidarbha in Maharashtra.
![Dr Nilesh Heda](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/nilesh-small.jpg?itok=TfuyIHdO)
Yettinahole project clearance hits a roadblock
Posted on 31 Oct, 2016 10:46 PMForest clearance to Yettinahole project gets challenged
![River Nethravathi (Source: Parineeta Dandekar via SANDRP)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/dsc03688_0_0.jpg?itok=qvmhQIy6)
Get your facts right, get them to act right
Posted on 31 Oct, 2016 05:37 PMHasdeo Arand illustrates all that is wrong with the coal mining industry today. This ancient and dense forest in Chattisgarh, inhabited by several tribes, was once famous for being an elephant corridor. Since 2013, the area has worn a different face.
![People attend public hearing late into the night at New Anaya, Arunachal Pradesh.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/8585117372_9b9d32af45_z.jpg?itok=fmVBKy8x)
Those invisible farm hands
Posted on 28 Oct, 2016 09:43 PMParvati, aged 40, is an agricultural labourer working on the outskirts of Pune. The sole breadwinner of her family, she has not been going for work for three days because of severe pain in the lower back. She asks me for some pills or ointments that could relieve her of her backache.
![Women at work on a farm. (Source: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/dscn0558.jpg?itok=xX_SS9iz)
Smoking is injurious for oceans
Posted on 25 Oct, 2016 07:04 PMSenthil takes a long puff of the cigarette before flicking it on the road nonchalantly. “I started smoking on the sly when I was in school,” he reminisces. “Sixty years later, I still do the same, only more smokes per day.”
![Discarded cigarette butts on a beach. (Source:Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/illegal_dumping_litter_adds_up_to_big_problems_for_water_quality_120416-d-nt551-001.jpg?itok=bLcZbWGV)
Doing good, well
Posted on 25 Oct, 2016 03:10 PMGazala Paul spent her 50th birthday among the Baiga people of Chhattisgarh. On the eve of her 25th wedding anniversary, she was in Rapar, a block near the Little Rann of Kutch, in a celebratory mood. The MLA of the region had come to a meeting organised with villagers from his constituency and promised to deliver them safe water based on sound scientific principles.
![Gazala Paul, founder of Samerth with a Baiga tribal woman - at Machamoha village, Mungeli district](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/dsc00887.jpg?itok=wNpFxpp6)