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August 11, 2024
SeasonWatch: Citizens, trees, and climate change
Even in the face of daunting challenges like climate change, collective action and community engagement can lead to meaningful change
SeasonWatch tree walk at Rupa Rahul Bajaj Centre for Environment and Art (Image: SeasonWatch)
May 19, 2024
How do your everyday choices impact the world's resources?
The surprising connection between Wikipedia, beaches, and your water bottle.
A top down image of a lush green forest in a sacred grove in Meghalaya (Image created by: Sreechand Tavva)
May 11, 2024
Unravelling the escalating forest fire crisis in Uttarakhand
Deforestation, expansion of agricultural land, encroachment into forested areas, and unplanned urbanisation alter landscape connectivity, fragment habitats, and increase fire ignition sources.
Uttarakhand's wildfire wake-up call (Image: Pickpic)
May 8, 2024
Ecosystem-based approach to water management: Key to Karnataka’s water future
What is the ecosystem based approach to water management? How can it help in solving the water woes of states in the Deccan Plateau?
An ecosystem based approach to water management (Image Source: India Water Portal)
July 5, 2023
Namakkal district of Tamil Nadu sets an example by becoming water secure
News this fortnight
Being water secure. Image for representation purposes only (Image Source: India Water Portal Flickr photos)
May 26, 2023
An anthropologist visits orans in Rajasthan
Orans are traditional sacred groves found in Rajasthan. These are community forests, preserved and managed by rural communities through institutions and codes that mark such forests sacred. Orans have significance for both, conservation and livelihood. The author visited two orans in Alwar district in Rajasthan and in this article, she writes about her observation.
Since ancient times, communities in Rajasthan have preserved these orans, and their lives have been inextricably entwined with them. (Image: Ranjita Mohanty)
Monsoon 2015: Nearly half of Indian districts reeling under drought
News this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 05 Oct, 2015 11:38 PM

Monsoon leaves the country with 39% area still parched
Drought affected area in Karnataka (Source: Pushkarv via Wikipedia)
A pond comes to life
Hundreds of villagers pitched in to revive a village pond at Bapugaon, a village in Rajasthan, to make it water and food secure.
Centre For Community Economics and Development Consultants Society (CECODECON)
Amita Bhaduri
Posted on 22 Sep, 2015 10:42 AM

It had not rained for awhile and the tiny cracks in the earth in Bapugaon were opening up. This little village in Chaksu tehsil of Jaipur was yet again faced with a drought in the mid 1980s. The situation was aggravated in 1986 when the river Dhund, an important water source for Bapugaon, went dry. Since then, both the quantity and quality of water started deteriorating.
More than just physical rehabilitation of a water body, says Kalyan ji of Bapugaon
Centre approves 50 more days of work under MGNREGA to tackle drought
Policy matters this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 21 Sep, 2015 10:14 PM

50 more days of work under MGNREGA in drought-hit areas
Labourers building check dams under MGNREGS (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)
Polavaram--solution or problem?
Dam history will be repeated with the construction of the Polavaram Dam. Unfortunately, other options that could have been looked into such as reduction of height, were ignored.
Amita Bhaduri
Posted on 21 Sep, 2015 11:13 AM

Papi kondalu, a scenic gorge located on the lower stretches of the Godavari, will soon be engulfed within the controversial Polavaram Dam. The river serves as a visitor’s delight as it winds through the hills--the same hills that are home to primitive tribal groups such as the Kondareddys.
Papi kondalu gorge on Godavari (Source: Pranay Raj, Wikimedia Commons)
No more dam approvals until e-flow report is out: Water Ministry
Policy matters this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 07 Sep, 2015 09:35 PM

No approval of dams until e-flow report is out: Water Ministry to CWC
Kelo dam near Raigarh (Source: India Water Portal Flickr Photos)
Okhla Bird Sanctuary takes a backseat to real estate development in Noida
Policy matters this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 24 Aug, 2015 09:20 PM

Centre approves bringing down protected zone around Okhla Bird Sanctuary from 10 km to 1
Okhla Bird Sanctuary (Source: Amit Pratap via Wikipedia)
Europe's Rhine river inspires the Ganga revival
News this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 24 Aug, 2015 09:13 PM

Ganga clean-up takes its inspiration from the Rhine river
Ganga river at Varanasi (Source: India Water Portal Flickr Photos)
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Govt approves Rs 4,845 crore for Krishna-Marathwada irrigation project
Policy matters this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 30 Jun, 2015 09:10 AM

Krishna-Marathwada irrigation project worth Rs 4,845 crore gets Govt nod
Krishna river near Vijayawada (Source: Bhanutpt)
Himachal fails to construct 109 micro hydel projects due to lack of funds
Policy matters this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 23 Jun, 2015 11:10 PM

Construction of 109 Kuhl projects proposed in Himachal, still on papers
Kuhls, the irrigation channels in Himachal Pradesh
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