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Poisonous cocktail in the Cauvery
Posted on 20 Oct, 2014 01:26 PMMettur, a lush green valley town near Salem in Tamil Nadu, is most famous for the Mettur Dam and the Cauvery river, which originates at Talakaveri, in Kodagu, Karnataka. A largely agricultural town, Mettur's move to industrialisation happened in 1936 when Mettur Chemicals set up India’s first caustic-chlorine factory above the Stanley Reservoir.
![Mettur is now home to many ash ponds](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/mettur_041.jpg?itok=Ffip1PVa)
The slow death of a river
Posted on 15 Oct, 2014 05:12 PMThe Kshipra is considered a sacred river in Madhya Pradesh's Malwa region. In the last few decades, this perennial river has also lost its glory like many other rivers in India.
![Prayers on the bank of the Kshipra](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/dsc_0007-3.jpg?itok=7RKci9Rn)
Tribals in Jharkhand plan for water security
Posted on 14 Oct, 2014 03:15 PM"Clean water", emphasized the woman. "'Close to the house. Whenever it is needed", she added. She was speaking at a village meeting organised to determine what was needed to make the village water secure. The discussions had begun with an attempt to define water security.
![A planning meeting in Bhawani Chowki](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/harkhand_lead.jpg?itok=OKf8FAu6)
Scheme to develop 2,379 villages in the next 5 years launched
Posted on 14 Oct, 2014 11:47 AMCentre launches the Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana
![A drought-free village in Maharashtra](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/11797948633_2f4f8368ea_b.jpg?itok=5JMtMbyW)
Great things can happen when 'theirs' becomes 'ours'
Posted on 13 Oct, 2014 10:59 AMPriya Ramasubban personifies the words ‘good things come in small packages’. This sprightly, self motivated enthusiast, saw a marshy, polluted cess pool, hemmed in by an open tract of land, where labourers and migrants daily dipped in for their morning ablutions. Talking to people around, she realised that this soggy piece of wetland was once a lake.
![A lake once more: Kaikondarahalli Lake](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/lake_0061.jpg?itok=IRvvTPts)
Swachh Bharat Mission launched on Gandhi Jayanti
Posted on 06 Oct, 2014 11:09 PMPM launches the nationwide cleanliness campaign
![Swachh Bharat Mission (Source: Economic Times)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/pm-modi-launches-swachh-bharat-campaign.jpg?itok=v2bLrx-7)
First river interlinking project initiated
Posted on 06 Oct, 2014 09:15 PMInterlinking of Ken-Betwa rivers initiated
![The Ken-Betwa river link (Source: Shannon)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/yamunarivermap_1.jpg?itok=ydMmG5-p)
Black life: Impact of coal mining in Jharsuguda
Posted on 02 Oct, 2014 04:08 PM"The agricultural production in our region has deteriorated due to pollution. Haphazard mining has lead to serious drinking water problems in the area", says Indar Bilas Shah, a 56- year old resident of Obada village, Lakhanpur block in Jharsuguda, Odisha. He's not the only one. Thousands of villagers in Jharsuguda echo these sentiments.
Who's to blame?
![Work in progress in coal mines in Jharsuguda](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/dsc_0066etp.jpg?itok=t8dBXRUd)
3000 MW Dibang mega project approved without public consultation
Posted on 29 Sep, 2014 10:26 PMDibang hydel project gets Centre's nod
![People protesting Dibang Project (Source: SANDRP)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/dibang_hearing_boycott_1_march_12th.jpg?itok=82m3msw2)
Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan is now Swachh Bharat Mission
Posted on 29 Sep, 2014 09:54 PMCentre approves reconstituting the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan into Swachh Bharat Mission
![A toilet constructed under Parishudh initiative](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/8456963363_626ed25d7c_k.jpg?itok=yPTs8DXO)