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Equity
Vulnerability in the times of Corona
Posted on 25 Mar, 2020 10:54 AMDisasters have the ability to disrupt everyday life. However, it is not often that we probe about what constitutes a disaster? How do we define it? Well, a disaster varies in definition for different agencies.
![Image: Muffinn, Flickr Commons](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/covid-radio.jpg?itok=tEP1gV9X)
Remembering Mahad Satyagraha: Untouchability and water
Posted on 21 Mar, 2020 10:28 PMThe worst and most inhumane form of discrimination and untouchability is seen when it comes to water. Even today, many villages have a different source of water allotted for Dalits. Many a times, upper caste men and women forbid Dalit women from touching the public source of water fearing the source will be “polluted".
![Can the simple act of drinking water be revolutionary? (Illustration by Chetan Toliya)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/mahad_satyagraha_0.jpg?itok=zuURwtZ2)
Women’s involvement in participatory water institutions in Eastern India
Posted on 10 Mar, 2020 06:42 PMWomen, major contributors in agriculture and irrigation
![Women, neglected stakeholders in water management (Photocredit: Makarand Purohit for India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/bagledi_1.jpg?itok=mO1LR0Lw)
Women lead the way in water quality surveillance
Posted on 06 Mar, 2020 01:45 PMHistorically, water is a gendered burden, with women being the primary caregivers responsible for cooking, washing and cleaning chores in the house and in modern times in institutions (teachers, anganwadi and healthcare workers). Women have traditionally been associated with various water related tasks - be it collecting, fetching, or purifying water.
![Organised under WaterAid India’s partnership with GAP, water testing workshop (2019) held in Indore district aimed at training women and youth to lead the entire process of community water management – from planning to supply, operations and maintenance and to educate communities on water-quality issues. (Image: WaterAid India/Ashima Narain)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/wai1.jpg?itok=FVFEjRSY)
The miserable plight of sanitation workers
Posted on 29 Feb, 2020 06:01 PMMany of the challenges sanitation workers face, stem from their lack of visibility in society, says a report ‘Health, Safety and Dignity of Sanitation Workers’ produced jointly by The World Bank,
![A latrine emptier is lifted out of a pit in Bangalore, India (Image: WaterAid/CS Sharada Prasad)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/wateraid-cs_sharada_prasad.jpg?itok=us6DmgNs)
Suffering in silence: Migrant cane cutters of Maharashtra
Posted on 27 Feb, 2020 10:04 PMMaharashtra is the second largest sugar producing state in India, after Uttar Pradesh where as high as 1.6 million farmers cultivate sugarcane on 0.7 million hectares of land. The sugarcane industry provides direct employment to about 0.16 million workers while 1.5 million workers engage in sugarcane harvesting and transport operations every year.
![Women workers suffer the most (Image Source: Azhar Feder, Wikimedia Commons-CC-BY-SA-3.0)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/budget1_1.jpg?itok=nFOOYSao)
Parasite – the film and India’s disaster management
Posted on 25 Feb, 2020 02:36 PMParasite, the South Korean movie released in 2019 has gained attention worldwide especially after its historical win at the Oscars 2020. The film takes on two different worlds co-existing in a country but set apart by class and wealth.
![A still from the movie Parasite (Image: Christiano Betta, Flickr Commons: CC BY 2.0)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/parasite.jpg?itok=ebHf23tq)
Decentralised groundwater governance to deal with the groundwater crisis
Posted on 17 Feb, 2020 05:43 PMThe challenges to sustain groundwater dependency in India are many where groundwater over extraction is not only leading to rapid depletion of the resource, but also giving rise to water quality issues in a situation where the response at the level of policy continues to be lukewarm.
![The need for decentralised governance to deal with the current groundwater crisis (Image Source: ACWADAM)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/img_5018_0.jpg?itok=1Axtr83L)
Decoding budget 2020
Posted on 10 Feb, 2020 04:35 PM“Every single number in the budget, be it receipts or expenditure is a lie. The budget numbers can no longer be trusted, as the difference between actual expenditure and budget estimates are off by around 25 percent.
![Woman farmer sifting grain (Image: Ray Witlin/World Bank CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/sifting_grain.jpg?itok=0rLjuCR3)
Managing commons: Need and challenges
Posted on 06 Feb, 2020 07:17 PMCommon pool resources, popularly known as “commons”, are those resources which are accessible to the whole community or village and to which no individual has exclusive ownership or property rights. Commons have two essential characteristics: non-excludability and high-subtractability.
![Plantation in Gomala (Image: Foundation for Ecological Security)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/plantation_in_gomala_1.jpg?itok=GlBcRaZ1)