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Environmentalists protest proposed projects near Konkan coastline
Posted on 09 Feb, 2016 12:48 PMActivists stand against three proposed projects near Konkan coastline
![A thermal power plant in Ennore, Chennai (Source: India Water Portal Flickr Photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/dsc00090_0_1.jpg?itok=fnDNaIX8)
Eight ministries now responsible for Ganga clean up
Posted on 09 Feb, 2016 12:39 PMSeven ministries other than the Water Ministry to help revive the Ganga
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Agriculture and informal sector labour need a budgetary push
Posted on 08 Feb, 2016 08:46 AMRecent data from the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) as well as the Agriculture Census highlighted the plight of Indian farmers. Around 85 percent are small and marginal farmers with an average monthly income of only Rs. 4653, which is lesser than their monthly expenses. Debt rates are very high among farmers with an average loan of more than Rs.
![A farmer in Jhansi, Bundelkhand](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/farmer_in_bundelkhand.jpg?itok=yufC_z2C)
Echoes of Bhakra
Posted on 01 Feb, 2016 04:28 PMBhakra dam was the first hydropower project of independent India. Though it brought electricity and water to vast areas, the people displaced in the Bilaspur area of Himachal Pradesh remain dissatisfied. Many of them were not adequately compensated, and began living and farming in the adjoining forests. They were allowed to stay put--unofficially--by the administration.
![Bhakra dam (Source: Apar Singh Bataan, Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/bhakra_dam_bilaspur.jpg?itok=d_BvDd3U)
Water and sanitation sector needs a budget push
Posted on 30 Jan, 2016 12:56 PMWhile the WatSan sector has been prioritised in the country’s policy agenda through the launch of the Swachh Bharat Mission, last year’s budgetary outlay was way below desired levels.
![Handwashing at a Karnataka school](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/handwashing_in_a_karnataka_school_0.jpg?itok=DFnpKoyP)
Pumping up hopes the solar way
Posted on 28 Jan, 2016 03:29 PMHaryana's agriculture sector uses seven lakh tubewells, most of which are connected to the grid as the state has a policy of providing highly subsidised electricity to farmers costing Rs. 6200 crore a year. As a result, groundwater exploitation is rampant.
![Better incentives needs to be provided to farmers to use solar pumps for tubewells in Haryana](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/image_14.jpg?itok=8Ww2QUZ-)
Government sets ambitious targets for MGNREGS
Posted on 26 Jan, 2016 02:09 PMAiming for an outcome-oriented programme, Government sets ambitious targets for MGNREGS
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UP Coca Cola plant in trouble again
Posted on 26 Jan, 2016 02:03 PMCPCB finds Coca Cola plant in Hapur pumping toxic water into a pond
![Coca Cola bottling plant (Source: S. Subramanium via Hindu)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/coca_cola_bottling_1629227g_0_1.jpg?itok=mMsWDFAN)
Alarm bells ring for Delhi’s groundwater
Posted on 25 Jan, 2016 01:19 PMDelhi, home to 16.75 million people, is in the grip of a major water crisis. Statistics by the Delhi Jal Board for the year 2011 suggest that the water deficit stands at about 250 million gallons per day with the supply being 830 million gallons per day.
![Residents say they are forced to flout the groundwater extraction norms with illegal groundwater pumps in Narela in North-west Delhi due to insufficient and poor quality of water supplied.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/residents.jpg?itok=KvYNHZMG)
Can recurring droughts in Maharashtra be offset by participatory groundwater management (PGWM)?
Posted on 20 Jan, 2016 09:02 AMMaharashtra is the fourth state following Karnataka, Chattisgarh, and Madhya Pradesh to seek out relief from the Union government thanks to more than 15,000 of its villages across Marathwada and parts of Western Maharashtra reeling under drought in 2015 [1].
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