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Food and Nutrition
Sewage to blame, Dal turns dull
Posted on 17 May, 2018 01:09 PMSrinagar's prime tourist attraction, Dal Lake, is no more the scenic beauty it used to be. It's turning into an eyesore, thanks to sewage discharge and weed growth.
![A Kashmiri boy on a boat among lotus leaves on Dal Lake. (Pic courtesy: Safeena Wani/101Reporters)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/rsz_lotus_leaves_in_dal_lake.jpg?itok=cVxOfNoa)
Tackling fluorosis by following Nalgonda's lead
Posted on 15 Apr, 2018 04:21 PMFluorosis continues to be a regional issue in Telangana to this day, even decades after the first cases were discovered in Nalgonda in 1937. More than three lakh people in the district are affected with skeletal and dental fluorosis, a stigma that has stuck for generations.
![Shifting to non-fluoride affected food and increased nutrients is necessary to deal with fluorosis (Image: Fluoride Knowledge and Action Network)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/nalgonda.jpg?itok=zw0lbNVz)
Saving Jhabua’s children from fluorosis
Posted on 13 Apr, 2018 09:03 PMIn 2010, nine-year-old Kailash from Miyati village, Jhabua developed symptoms of skeletal fluorosis. Fluorosis, which affects millions of people in India, is a health issue caused due to high fluoride content in drinking water. Skeletal fluorosis is marked by deformed bones.
![Nutrition garden developed in Jhabua for sustainable nutrition and resistance from fluorosis among villagers.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/jhabua.jpg?itok=YH8hEh1R)
Floating filth mars market on water
Posted on 08 Feb, 2018 02:49 PMThe beautiful city of Kolkata had another first to its credit when the much anticipated floating market was inaugurated on January 24 by the chief minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee.
![A fruit stall at the market. (Pictures courtesy: Gurvinder Singh)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/20180130_144743_0.jpg?itok=JIOLoNwr)
Profiting from sustainable farming
Posted on 23 Jan, 2018 01:48 PMPitidri is a nondescript village that dots the rainshadow area of Purulia district in West Bengal. Droughts are common here even when the area is endowed with above average rainfall of over 1300 mm a year. Until some time ago, Urmila Mahato, a 42-year-old farmer from Pitidri had been struggling to ensure her family’s food security.
![Urmila Mahato at her farm.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/urmila_mahato_01.jpg?itok=NWtWgOIM)
Book Release and Discussion on ‘Alternative Futures: India Unshackled’, a book edited by Ashish Kothari and K. J. Joy
Posted on 22 Jan, 2018 10:40 AMAlternative Futures: India Unshackled is a riveting new book that brings together scenarios of an India that is politically and socially egalitarian, radically democratic, economically sustainable and equitable, and socio-culturally diverse and harmonious.
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Stubble burning banned, farmers stumped
Posted on 07 Jan, 2018 06:20 PMAmar Singh sits in his huge courtyard at the centre of his home in the village of Atraula in Meerut. Lying in the far west part of Uttar Pradesh, this is a flourishing sugarcane belt. An important agricultural region, its demographic, economic and cultural patterns are similar to that of nearby Haryana and Rajasthan.
![A large amount of crop residues are available in western UP and most of these are burnt in the field (Image: Ed Dunens, Flickr Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/ed-dunens.jpg?itok=kyOhqF3V)
India faces superbugs
Posted on 20 Dec, 2017 10:53 AMThere is a huge dearth of cleanliness in India--open defecation is rampant; garbage management in most cities is in shambles; toxic hospital and industrial wastes and sewage are allowed to drain into water sources and food products are laced with chemicals.
![Highly polluted rivers such as the Yamuna can breed superbugs. (Source: IWP Flickr Photo)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/yamuna_garbage.jpg?itok=9ewv5Tgy)
Waiting for water
Posted on 15 Nov, 2017 05:50 AMIn the early hours, the villagers of Khalabari, a tribal-dominated village in the Dumuripadar gram panchayat of Koraput district in Odisha step out of their houses for bringing wood and drinking water. The road to the forest where the water is available is rocky.
![Khalabari village (Source: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/24260720608_796c84b5d4_o.jpg?itok=T1hupHcK)
India Industry Water Conclave on Nov 28, 2017 at FICCI, New Delhi
Posted on 07 Nov, 2017 10:12 AMThe theme for the Conclave this year is “Water Use Efficiency: An Imperative for India” to highlight the imperative of water use efficiency in the industry, agriculture and urban contexts.
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