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Monsoon 2016: Rains create havoc
Posted on 25 Sep, 2016 09:51 PMRains cause havoc in Hyderabad while Mumbai lakes, dams overflow with water
![Powai Lake, Mumbai. (Source: Wikipedia)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/lake_just_trying_to_overflow.jpg?itok=MeS2LoeS)
Cauvery crisis: Karnataka to move SC for more time
Posted on 25 Sep, 2016 09:40 PMKarnataka to seek more time to release Cauvery water
![Cauvery river, Karnataka. (Source: Ashwin Kumar via Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/cauvery_kaveri_river_karnataka_india_2_0.jpg?itok=UKvEF71A)
Of broken pots and dreams
Posted on 24 Sep, 2016 11:25 PMWomen in Salmora area of Majuli, the world’s largest riverine island and India’s first island district, practise their traditional form of pottery--the one that does not use a wheel but is hand beaten to shape and uses a viscid kind of clay. As the Brahmaputra eats away huge swathes of land year after year, the clay that these potters use is being taken away by the river.
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Majuli: A hungry river and a succumbing island
Posted on 24 Sep, 2016 08:30 PMBrahmaputra is the highest siltation-carrying river in the world, and controlling erosion is not easy. Because of its characteristics, it does not have a parallel with any other river in the world. Mythologically also, the Brahmaputra has always been a disturbed river, highly meandering, says Gunajeet Kashyap (ACS), Election Officer, Majuli.
![A boatman looks at the vast and furious Brahmaputra](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/lead_1.jpg?itok=HJlG6ax8)
MGNREGA demands makeover
Posted on 23 Sep, 2016 09:04 PMThe article, The MGNREGA crisis: Insights from Jharkhand, published in the Economic and Political Weekly dated May 28, 2016, provides an overview of the status of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act or MGNREGA in India.
![Labourers build check dams under MGNREGA. (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/mgnrega_work.jpg?itok=_6BHdvZj)
Right data to create right policies
Posted on 23 Sep, 2016 03:21 PMThe Integrated Management Information System (IMIS) of the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation (MDWS) provides ample information on the physical and financial progress of various programmes and schemes implemented by the government, with certain information mad
![IMIS on MDWS website](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/mdws_imis.png?itok=TZSOUFCK)
Call for Abstracts: The 10th Annual Global Water Alliance Conference
Posted on 19 Sep, 2016 04:17 PMThe Tenth Annual Global Water Alliance Conference, with the theme“Role of Locals in Implementing Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Sustainable Development Goals, 2015-2030” is to be held in Kolkata, India from January 4-7, 2017 (Site visits January 5-6).The focus of the co
Heavy metals and pesticides pollute Ganga: CPCB
Posted on 19 Sep, 2016 09:40 AMGanga polluted with heavy metals and pesticides: CPCB
![Ganga near Gadmukteshwar. (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/6171494645_920f644b53_z_1_0.jpg?itok=7A2j7XFV)
Delhi enters uncharted waters
Posted on 15 Sep, 2016 11:44 AMIf you are a resident of Delhi, it wouldn’t matter if you have a residence proof or not; neither would it matter if your settlement is illegal. You will get individual water connection that will supply enough water for your daily use.
![Residents of Kusumpur Pahari, a slum in south New Delhi, fill containers with water from a DJB tanker Source: Columbia Water Center/flickr](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/6896995788_03079153c9_k.jpg?itok=DJ67zhWl)