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Palk Bay: Trawled and damaged
Posted on 28 Nov, 2017 04:05 PMThe Palk Bay is an ecological paradise located between the island nation of Sri Lanka and the South East Peninsula India. The region separates the coastal areas of Tamil Nadu from the northern parts of Sri Lanka.
![The Palk Bay (Source: GIZ)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/palk_bay-s1.jpg?itok=1_ZSNBVf)
Conserving Palk Bay
Posted on 28 Nov, 2017 04:04 PMThe Palk Bay is a 15,000 sq km biodiversity conglomeration nestled between the island nation of Sri Lanka and South East Peninsula India with a coastal length of 250 km on the Indian side.
![The Palk Bay (Source: GIZ)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/palk_bay.jpg?itok=hf4m_5Ho)
CRZ clears inland waterway terminal at Haldia
Posted on 28 Nov, 2017 01:55 PMGreen nod to Inland waterway terminal at Haldia
![Haldia port in West Bengal (Source: Wikimedia commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/haldia_port.png?itok=2hjP5CZq)
Toilet use in Uttarakhand: A mountainous issue
Posted on 23 Nov, 2017 02:36 PM“Sometimes I go for open defecation, sometimes I use the toilet. It’s not like I always have to use the toilet. When I go for work here and there, I defecate in the jungle,” says Renu from one of the remote villages in Tehri Garwal district of Uttarakhand when asked why she does not use latrines every day.
![Tanks and canals form the water supply system in a remote Uttarakhand village. (Image source: Chicu Lokgariwar)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/water_supply_uttarakhand.jpg?itok=Xpm9y6Bi)
Innovative government-NGO partnerships for development
Posted on 22 Nov, 2017 08:49 AMSari-clad women handling tools with alacrity while fixing water hand pumps is a common sight in the Sabarkantha district in north Gujarat.
![Trained and organised by SEWA, the women who repair hand pumps are called barefoot mechanics. (Photo by Amruta Mahakalkar)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/fo_namrata_sewa-1.jpg?itok=5vbUrpW8)
Where there are no sewers: The toilet cleaners of Lucknow
Posted on 20 Nov, 2017 03:41 PMNovember 19th is World Toilet Day. Enormous progress has been made in the global effort to provide safe and affordable toilets for the world's poorest citizens since World Toilet Day was first declared in 2001.
![The toilet cleaners of Lucknow (Image source: CS Sharada Prasad)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/00_csp1654.jpg?itok=5ippc9P1)
Maharashtra to pay Rs 100 crore for river restoration
Posted on 20 Nov, 2017 01:54 PMSC orders Maharashtra government to pay Rs 100 crore for restoration of Ulhas and Waldhuni rivers
![A filthy river in Maharashtra. (Source: IWP photos via Rohit Sharma and Arpita Bhagat)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/image_3_0_0.jpg?itok=PcTf6jtu)
Solar mamas to light up their homes
Posted on 20 Nov, 2017 11:19 AMIn her mid-30s, Lino Lameko works as an assistant at the office of the national women’s council in Funafuti, the capital of Tuvalu. She has come all the way from the Polynesian island nation located in the Pacific Ocean to Tilonia, a small village located in Ajmer in Rajasthan to become a “barefoot solar engineer”.
![Over 1000 women from all over the world have come to Barefoot College to become barefoot solar engineers. (Image: Barefoot College)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/over_1000_women_from_all_over_the_world_have_come_here_to_train_as_barefoot_solar_engineers.jpg?itok=5yCpps7U)
Groundwater training programme by ACWADAM
Posted on 16 Nov, 2017 10:48 PMACWADAM has begun running a fifteen-day training programme on basic hydrogeology or groundwater science, for professionals from Civil Society Organisations or NGOs.
Waiting for water
Posted on 15 Nov, 2017 05:50 AMIn the early hours, the villagers of Khalabari, a tribal-dominated village in the Dumuripadar gram panchayat of Koraput district in Odisha step out of their houses for bringing wood and drinking water. The road to the forest where the water is available is rocky.
![Khalabari village (Source: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/24260720608_796c84b5d4_o.jpg?itok=T1hupHcK)