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Creating art from waste
Posted on 24 Feb, 2018 01:18 PMCities like Pune are in the midst of a garbage crisis. There is garbage strewn all over which is not just unsightly, it is also found to be polluting the city's water resources.
![Amita and Nandan have started a unique enterprise, Aarohana, that turns plastic from garbage into useful products.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/aarohana_final1.jpg?itok=OXyHT3UC)
Millions wait for toilets and water
Posted on 24 Feb, 2018 10:31 AMGoI allocations for the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation is Rs. 22,357 crores
![The state of water supply and sanitation continues to be poor in India.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/wash_1.jpg?itok=WMhiPZqo)
Atal Bhujal Yojana to be implemented soon
Posted on 20 Feb, 2018 05:31 AMCentre to fast track Atal Bhujal Yojana to help manage groundwater efficiently
![Water is a fast depleting resource. (Picture courtesy: India Today)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/groundwater-leopard-2-647_062015070022.jpg?itok=fegBY-GD)
How Kakaddara village won water cup
Posted on 19 Feb, 2018 06:33 AMEvery year, thousands of villages in Maharashtra get affected by droughts. Experts say that the reasons for recurrent droughts include a lack of policy framework, technical knowledge and community participation as well as poor implementation of government programmes.
![A farm pond in Kakaddara.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/_dsc0072tps.jpg?itok=pZ5lfMej)
Invisible water wizards
Posted on 16 Feb, 2018 02:00 PMIndia has long undervalued one of its most precious resources—water. Today the country’s chronic mismanagement of water has led to drought in nearly 2,00,000 villages. According to the World Bank data, Indian farmers use almost 70 percent of the total groundwater that is drawn in the country each year. Shockingly, India uses more groundwater annually than China and the United States combined.
![Through SRDS method, monsoon rain is channelled back through borewells into the underground aquifers where it can be conserved for future use.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/srd_water_tchnique-2_0.jpg?itok=OEP_i6gO)
Haphazard measures to combat drought
Posted on 15 Feb, 2018 01:54 PMThe Manjara river rejuvenation work was implemented in Latur, Maharashtra under the leadership of Art of Living and RSS Jankalyan Samiti in the summer of 2016.
![The map of Manjara river along with the barrages and the river rejuvenation site. (Source: Authors)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/figure1_10.jpg?itok=EAtLYnv5)
Harvesting rainwater effectively
Posted on 15 Feb, 2018 01:25 PMOne of the major causes of deterioration of water quality is the increase in overall salinity. Total hardness and the presence of materials like fluoride, nitrate, iron, arsenic, and toxic metal ions determine salinity levels in groundwater. With the demand for groundwater growing rapidly, its exploitation is also accelerating which causes depletion.
![The innovation was introduced in a government school building in Untka village located in Mewat district of Haryana.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/untaka-rwh.gif?itok=-9AlYCrA)
Delhi to take Haryana to court over Yamuna pollution
Posted on 13 Feb, 2018 12:50 PMDelhi to take Haryana to court over increased ammonia levels in Yamuna
![Frothing Yamuna (Picture courtesy: The Indian Express)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/yamuna-poll.jpg?itok=XNdIHp2k)
New policy to manage landfills in Delhi on the cards
Posted on 13 Feb, 2018 12:23 PMUnion environment ministry to come up with policy to manage landfill sites in Delhi
![A mountain of refuse. (Picture courtesy: India Today)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/solidwaste.jpg?itok=wX-Z-Dvo)
Water issues: Take account of socio-cultural question
Posted on 13 Feb, 2018 08:30 AMAs part of Bonjour India 2017-2018, the four-months-long, ongoing Indo-French journey celebrating the Indo-French partnership, water-related issues are being highlighted through research, art and debates in cities like Jaipur, Bengaluru, New Delhi, Pondicherry and Kolkata.
![A small canal in Chanaute, Birendranagar, Nepal. (Photo: Janak Poudel (CC BY 4.0 SA)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/1200px-kulo.jpg?itok=VrjxL_FG)