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Budget allocation to Jal Shakti ministry reduced by 9.4 percent
Posted on 10 Jul, 2019 12:01 PMGovernment cuts budget for Jal Shakti Ministry by 9.4 percent; increases funds for rural drinking water mission
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Neglect and lack of monitoring behind country's water scarcity: CWC
Posted on 10 Jul, 2019 09:20 AMIndia not a water defict country. Neglect and lack of monitoring behind country's water scarcity: CWC
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Is it all downhill from here for Leh?
Posted on 09 Jul, 2019 02:05 PMAcross South Asia, small and medium-sized towns are rapidly expanding. Urbanisation has made inroads into the entire Himalayan region. Mountain urbanisation poses a need for assessments of emerging risks and vulnerabilities in environmentally sensitive regions.
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Go green this Van Mahotsava
Posted on 08 Jul, 2019 12:44 PMVan Mahotsava is an annual tree planting festival which was initiated by Shri Kulapati Kanaiyalal Munshi, the Union Minister for Agriculture and Food, Government of India, in 1950 to create awareness about the importance of trees and conservation of forests.
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Combating water crisis needs people's participation: PM Modi
Posted on 03 Jul, 2019 01:06 AMPrime Minister Modi pitches for a collective effort to overcome water crisis in the country
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The need for survival edge technology
Posted on 02 Jul, 2019 08:58 PMDecentralised and communitarian efforts in soil and water conservation, sustainable agriculture, afforestation and renewable energy need extensive investment, if the human race is to survive the deepening water, food, energy and climate crises.
![Digging an open well that had some water at lesser depths ranging from 5-10 m using local technology in which a motor run winch draws up the dug up mud from the well bottom. (Image: Rahul Banerjee)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/winch-rahul.jpg?itok=T5NZ1vF5)
Government launches Jal Shakti Abhiyan to tackle water crisis
Posted on 02 Jul, 2019 04:59 PMCentre launches Jal Shakti Abhiyan
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Women hold the key to water for food security and nutrition
Posted on 01 Jul, 2019 12:34 PMThe water sector remains male dominated at different scales, from engineers and technocrats responsible for designing irrigation systems, to upper caste and upper class men who decide on the location of canals, borewells, tanks, and other water systems at the grassroots level.
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Nal se Jal: hit or miss?
Posted on 28 Jun, 2019 02:52 PMWater scarcity has a history … and that history is nothing less than the history of government. – Alatout, 2008.
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High Court takes note of acute water crisis in Chennai
Posted on 26 Jun, 2019 11:36 AMHigh Court raps Tamil Nadu government over water crisis in Chennai
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