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State Action Plans for climate change analysed
Posted on 21 Jan, 2015 06:20 PMRecent years have shown a growing awareness on the relevance of climate change for India within the government as well as civil society, business and media. India has prepared its National Action Plan on Climate Change amidst growing international pressure to devise domestic climate adaptation strategies.
![Mountains in the catchment area of Khadakwasla dam](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/climate_change_1.jpg?itok=3M3fxWHR)
Maharashtra and Telangana oppose interlinking plan
Posted on 20 Jan, 2015 04:56 PMStrong opposition to interlinking of Gujarat and Maharashtra rivers
![Narmada river in Madhya Pradesh](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/14361734417_8d80b2667f_z_1_0.jpg?itok=fRZ7EoNg)
Mission to clean Yamuna in Delhi by 2017
Posted on 19 Jan, 2015 09:08 PMNGT announces heavy fines, bans farming to clean up Yamuna
![Yamuna river in Agra](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/2449965048_3684c8f1bb_z.jpg?itok=ZQAHpXgC)
Social regulation as a key to sustainable groundwater use
Posted on 19 Jan, 2015 11:02 AMSustainable management of groundwater continues to be ignored in India although its hydrogeological and socieconomic aspects continue to be studied extensively. Despite recognition of its importance at the policy level, no clear plan of action exists for groundwater management in India.
![A well in Odoor farms, Mangalore](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/oddoor_4_0.jpg?itok=PoGxbn8J)
The dark life of the Kelo
Posted on 15 Jan, 2015 11:52 PM"The Kelo river has never been like this but in the last two decades, the economic growth in the region has spoiled the purity of the river", says eminent journalist Shiv Rajpoot from Raigarh, who is also known as "Kelo man". He has twice traveled by foot, the 90 km stretch of the Kelo from its origin to its end.
The objectives of his two visits were to study and document:
![Shiv Rajpoot during his Kelo Yatra, 2008](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/dsc00474.jpg?itok=Ed-wWzOA)
Ganga Maiyya ki Jai': Uma Bharti at the Ganga Mahasabha
Posted on 15 Jan, 2015 05:57 PMBanaras has always been identified with Baba Vishwanath but Modiji said that he had been called here by the Ganga. Ganga was thus present in the election atmosphere. When he extended the cabinet, he established a ministry for the Ganga. Some unprecedented things have happened in these elections.
![Boats on the ganga](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/p1010740.jpg?itok=SAGRqFRJ)
Norms violated for Ken-Betwa river link's public hearing: Activists
Posted on 12 Jan, 2015 11:01 PMActivists say that the villagers were informed late for the public hearing of the Ken-Betwa river link
![People's public hearing](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/5618859530_eafca9f782_o_1.jpg?itok=dz_ailCK)
Nationwide monitoring of toilet use under Swachh Bharat Mission
Posted on 12 Jan, 2015 10:55 PMGovernment to launch nationwide monitoring of toilet use, not construction
![Construction of community toilets in progress](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/647a70ee-a8b9-4bc5-981e-58769e282814_0.jpg?itok=gJQEwvAW)
Water wars: Not what you think!
Posted on 09 Jan, 2015 09:31 AMSince the 1990s, it has often been predicted that all the conflicts over this century will be over water and that they will be fought in the South Asian region, which is undergoing a rapid growth in population coupled with a gradual decrease in water resources.
![The Brahmaputra river (Source: Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/brahmaputra_1.jpg?itok=Nn7BH3hw)
Science-based changes to cope with water crisis
Posted on 09 Jan, 2015 08:35 AMIndia has almost 17% of the world's population and 4% of the global water resources – a situation that threatens to push it towards a water crisis in the coming years. To add to this, are other reasons such as:
![Girls carrying water (Source: Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/faq_3.jpg?itok=vcYJuLZL)