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January 11, 2024
Mapping the water workforce
These preliminary findings provide a roadmap for detailed research, offering insights into the jobs, tasks, and skills required to manage rural water resources in India.
Examining jobs, skills, and tasks in rural water sector (Image: JustJobs Network)
December 28, 2023
Creating scalable, sustainable agriculture programs
The report presents six case studies on how sustainable agriculture programmes scaled up in the past in India
A farmer uses a hosepipe to irrigate crops at her farm in the Nilgiris mountains, Tamil Nadu (Image: IWMI Flickr Photos; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 DEED)
December 27, 2023
Assessment of India's preparedness: Implementing effective social protection
The ASPIRE tool analyses various social protection programs, offering insights into tailoring them for different climate risks
Women working on an NREGA site building a pond to assist in farming and water storage in Jhabua district (UN Women/Gaganjit Singh; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 DEED)
December 12, 2023
Insights from Atal Bhujal Yojana in Rajasthan
Learnings from India's Participatory Groundwater Management Programme
Launched in 2019, Atal Bhujal Yojana aims to mainstream community participation and inter-ministerial convergence in groundwater management. (Image: Picryl)
January 7, 2023
Fostering innovation in the green cooling sector
India’s cooling strategy can simultaneously mitigate the heat-related risks on lives and livelihoods, lower carbon emissions, and position India as a global hub for green cooling manufacturing.
Can India meet its growing domestic demand while also position itself as a manufacturing hub for cooling technologies? (Image: Gije Cho, CC)
October 15, 2022
Employment guarantee during Covid-19
Role of MGNREGA in the year after the 2020 lockdown: Survey findings from Bihar, Karnataka, Maharashtra, and Madhya Pradesh
MGNREGA provided income support or security to vulnerable households during the pandemic (Image: UN Women)
Centre approves projects near turtle nesting sites
Policy matters this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 10 Oct, 2018 12:09 PM

New coastal projects to ignore Olive Ridley turtles
Olive Ridley turtle (Source: Pawar Pooja via Wikipedia commons)
Swachh Bharat Mission: It’s all about numbers
As Swachh Bharat Mission is racing towards its 2019 deadline, a CAG report reveals that sanitation is not a one-time exercise and there is a need to look beyond the deadline.
Amita Bhaduri
Makarand Purohit
Arathi Menon
Posted on 02 Oct, 2018 11:06 PM

We have just a year to go for Swachh Bharat Mission’s (SBM) deadline of making India open-defecation free (ODF). In the last four years, the government has built 86.08 million toilets (as on September 26, 2018) throughout the country as a part of this flagship programme on providing safe sanitation to all by October 2019.
Sanitation is not just about constructing toilets. (Image: India Water Portal)
Lower Demwe hydel project gets nod from wildlife board
Policy matters this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 02 Oct, 2018 12:11 PM

Wildlife Board clears Lower Demwe hydel project despite flaws in report
Lohit river in Arunachal Pradesh (Image Source: Shantanu via Wikipedia Commons)
Cyclone Daye triggers widespread rain
News this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 25 Sep, 2018 06:02 PM

Cyclone causes rain in 18 states; floods, landslides reported in North India
Monsoon affects life in North India. (Source: IWP Flickr photos)
Dam safety project gets additional funds
Policy matters this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 25 Sep, 2018 05:40 PM

Additional funds of over Rs 1,300 crore allocated to dam safety project
Hirakud dam, the oldest dam in India (Source: IWP Flickr photos)
Jaundice grips Raipur
Faulty pipelines and lack of proper sewage treatment plants are some of the causes of increasing jaundice cases in Raipur.
Makarand Purohit
Posted on 20 Sep, 2018 04:09 PM

The family of Somesh Manikpuri of Amasivani colony in Raipur is still in shock of his sudden demise from jaundice in May this year. Six similar deaths have been reported from Raipur since April 2018. Memsingh Chandrakar, a resident of Naharpara, another locality in Raipur, was also affected by jaundice in May.
A view of the Shakti Nagar slum area in Raipur. (Source: India Water Portal)
Ganga clean up: It’s all talk and no action
While crores of rupees have been allocated for cleaning up Ganga, the river continues to flow filthy.
Amita Bhaduri
Posted on 19 Sep, 2018 12:06 PM

As the Ganga emerges from the glaciers and glides along the foothills of the mighty Himalayas through the towns and cities with their sprawling ghats, engineered embankments, hydroelectric dams, and interrupted flows at barrages, the icy chilliness of its waters is lost.
The Ganga at Garhmukteshwar (Image: Chicu Lokgariwar, India Water Portal)
Maharashtra comes out with draft groundwater rules
Policy matters this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 05 Sep, 2018 06:26 AM

Maharashtra farmers to need approval to sow water-intensive crops 
A sugarcane farm (Source: IWP Flickr photos)
Kerala, TN fight over Mullaperiyar dam water release
Policy matters this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 29 Aug, 2018 11:45 AM

Kerala blames Tamil Nadu for massive floods in the state
The Mullaperiyar dam (Source: Jayeshj via Wikipedia Commons)
Goa wins Mahadayi water dispute
Policy matters this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 22 Aug, 2018 09:12 AM

Mahadayi water dispute: Goa to get maximum share of water
Mahadayi river in Goa (Source: Amol.Gaitonde via Wikimedia commons)
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