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Ecology and Environment
This year witnesses record agricultural output
Posted on 24 Oct, 2016 07:17 AMNormal monsoon leads to record agricultural output this year
![A farm in India. (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/15878165733_764873e893_z.jpg?itok=sJJ0g_KO)
Keeping beach body in shape
Posted on 21 Oct, 2016 08:36 PMLife without sandy beaches is hard to imagine for artisanal fishermen. Beaches serve as boat-landing sites, net-repair yards, as spots to sort and dry fish, all at once. Increased erosion and the resultant loss of beaches essentially means loss of traditional livelihoods, all across the country’s densely-populated coast.
![Seawall lines Pondicherry's Promenade beach. (Image courtesy: Lalit Verma for India’s disappearing beaches - A wake up call)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/pondycoast1.jpg?itok=Tu7d388Z)
Harike needs a hand
Posted on 21 Oct, 2016 12:18 PMHarike wetland is the direct result of the Indus Water Treaty between India and Pakistan. To make best use of the waters of eastern rivers allotted to it, India constructed a barrage near the confluence of Beas and Satluj in 1952 from where two canals take water to the fields of Punjab and Rajasthan.
![Harike wetland Photo by Jaypee/Wikimedia Commons](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/harike_1.jpg?itok=V55gkLjh)
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) – Wetlands
Posted on 21 Oct, 2016 06:27 AMThis is a simple guide that lists out the most popular questions related to wetlands, to understand what they are and their importance a little better. Please click on a topic for detailed information
![Maguri Beel, a wetland area in the Tinsukia district of Upper Assam.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/8674758978_580f42e4be_z.jpg?itok=TTRVhODa)
Centre drafts National Water Framework Bill 2016
Posted on 17 Oct, 2016 09:19 AMBill to manage river basins out
![Ganga at Garmukhteshwar (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/6172024170_3151074271_b_0.jpg?itok=7r5iZrd-)
Water not for profit
Posted on 16 Oct, 2016 08:58 PMIn August 2016, the Karnataka government gave Abu Dhabi-based businessman B.R. Shetty permission to privatise the iconic Jog Falls to make it a perennial waterfall and to develop it into a tourism hotspot.
![NMC employees union and residents of Nagpur protest water privatisation.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/img-20160202-wa0006_0.jpg?itok=vgAipuVy)
Get wealthy with water
Posted on 15 Oct, 2016 11:59 AMThe Thiess International Riverprize is a globally renowned prize that is awarded by the International RiverFoundation to those demonstrating outstanding results in the sustainable river basin management, restoration and protection across the world.
![Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper receive the Thiess International Riverprize at the 19th International River Symposium. (Image Source: International RiverFoundation)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/423a6336.jpg?itok=8xgJD_sy)
Health check up for the rivers
Posted on 14 Oct, 2016 06:16 PMA severe crisis is plaguing the rivers in India.
![The Krishna river, Wai, Maharashtra. (Source: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/krishna_river_1.jpg?itok=kyV1exAD)
New Supreme Court bench to hear Cauvery dispute
Posted on 11 Oct, 2016 02:38 PMCauvery dispute: New Supreme Court bench constituted
![Cauvery river (Source: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/cauvery_2.jpg?itok=9khop4Nz)
River transport projects on development track
Posted on 10 Oct, 2016 10:36 AMGovernment starts river transport project with eight waterways
![River transport project work in progress. (Source: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/cauvery_3.jpg?itok=JWOSOCjC)