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Online Training: Design and Implementation of DEWATS
Posted on 17 Aug, 2020 11:02 AMThe Consortium for DEWATS™ Dissemination (CDD) Society is organising an "Online Training on DEWATS" to impart the knowledge and skills required for planning, designing, implementing, and managing DEWATS™ (Decentralised Wastewater Treatment System).
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Gender-sensitive response to the climate crisis
Posted on 14 Aug, 2020 11:19 AMA crowd of people jostling by the ticket counter at Jhansi railway station in Uttar Pradesh; men and women, some with families in tow, boarding trains to Delhi, Lucknow, Mumbai and other big cities. These are common sights during the summer months at Jhansi, a major town and railway junction.
![Women and girls spend a considerable amount of their time in fetching water. (Image: Romit Sen)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/pic_2_1.jpg?itok=W61Cp1SI)
Groundwater extraction: NGT gets strict with commercial entities
Posted on 12 Aug, 2020 08:41 AMNGT bans granting general permissions for groundwater extraction to commercial entities
![NGT gets strict with commercial entities (Source: IWP Flickr album)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/32493765187_81650bd26f_c_1_0.jpg?itok=VbwhA7fP)
Monsoon experiences a countrywide deficit of 10 percent in July
Posted on 12 Aug, 2020 08:27 AMMonsoon 2020: Countrywide deficit of 10 percent in July; September may have heavy rains
![July experiences rain deficit of 10 percent (Source: IWP Flickr photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/5074883626_33da0b2985_z_0_0.jpg?itok=0wiNPoII)
Amphan’s impact on farming and livelihood in Sunderbans
Posted on 11 Aug, 2020 05:46 PMThe Amphan cyclone has disfigured the lives of people living in the Sundarbans. Houses have been torn apart, farms have been filled with brackish water making the land unsuitable for farming and betel leaves have been destroyed. People in the Sundarbans are in a life-threatening situation with makeshift shacks to live in and no means to earn a living.
![Betel (popularly used in paan) plantation is a major occupation in the Sundarbans. Pulak Bhakta is assessing the damage done to his plantation right after Amphan. The plantation is spread over two and a half bigha of land. According to Pulak, the total loss he has suffered is around INR 3 lakhs. Pulak already bears the burden of a loan which he had taken to set up his plantation. His future seems uncertain and bleak now. (Image: WaterAid/ Subhrajit Sen)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/l1_0.jpg?itok=H8B88b9L)
Banking on rainwater harvesting
Posted on 11 Aug, 2020 10:27 AMNational Water Mission’s (NWM) has launched a campaign ‘Catch the rain’ on a pan India basis to nudge the states and stakeholders to create appropriate rainwater harvesting structures (RWHS) suitable to the climatic conditions and sub-soil strata before the onset of monsoon.
![As a part of the campaign, work is being done on various interventions such as water for productive use, improving irrigation practices, creating water recharge structures (Image: Pikist)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/rain-river-lake-landscape-reflection-trees-weather.jpg?itok=AtNNMf1F)
Understanding Atal Bhujal Yojana through the program guidelines
Posted on 10 Aug, 2020 03:59 PMGroundwater fulfills the drinking water requirements of nearly 85% and 50% of the rural and urban Indian population, respectively. 65% of the total irrigated area utilizes groundwater. It also caters to the water needs of the industrial sector in India.
![Community participation is expected to facilitate bottom-up groundwater planning process to improve the effectiveness of public financing and align implementation of various government programs on groundwater in the participating states (Image: Water Alternatives, Flickr Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/groundwater_4.jpg?itok=HkdNjORG)
Bihar floods: 'Living on 2.5 Kg flattened rice’
Posted on 10 Aug, 2020 03:55 PMTwo weeks ago, the Kanakai River flowing through Kishanganj rendered dozens of families homeless. While the people in the region are staying under plastic sheds, the government has turned a blind eye to their plight.
Mohammadin is also one of them. He tells the India Water Portal,
![Locals engaged in repair of broken embankment in Darbhanga (Source: Umesh Kumar Ray)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/img-20200801-wa0010.jpg?itok=xn2N6Bf9)
"Everything’s devastated, and no one is listening to us!"
Posted on 08 Aug, 2020 06:52 PM"All of a sudden, water entered the house at night. Goods and cattle were submerged. There is no place to eat or drink. We have been in trouble for three days, but no one has come to help us.” The elderly Gauri Singh complains, with mixed feelings of anger, pain and helplessness.
![Floodwater enters Satjoda village of Chapra (Source: Umesh Kumar Ray)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/bihar_flood.png?itok=XXZYZ-Xn)
Migration and the state amid the Covid-19 pandemic
Posted on 06 Aug, 2020 06:05 PMThrough no fault of their own, migrants were forced to leave the cities after the government imposed a Covid-19 induced national lockdown in late March. After losing their work, fearing they would run out of cash and food they trudged back along with their families to the villages in search of humanity, food, and a place to live.
![Migrants contribute enormously to urban society and economy (Image: Pexels)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/lockdown.jpg?itok=Afg6nHIN)