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Extreme weather warning!
Posted on 11 Jul, 2013 04:04 PMWe sat in a plush climate-controlled room and deliberated climate change as the outside world collapsed around us..
![The flooded Bagmati river](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/bagmati_flood.jpg?itok=a_nSwqcp)
Invite to the ‘India Water Forum (IWF 2013)', The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi
Posted on 08 Jul, 2013 05:09 PMOrganisers
The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
About the conference
![TERI](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/teri.png?itok=e9mX0-KS)
Floods in Assam affect one lakh people - Dhemaji worst hit
Posted on 08 Jul, 2013 11:31 AMFlood fury hits Assam
![The flooded plains of Brahamputra](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/320px-brahmaputra_plains_in_goalpara_district_of_assam_857.jpg?itok=0o5j0Ouh)
Vacancy with the Environmental Governance team, Keystone Foundation, Kotagiri, Tamil Nadu
Posted on 07 Jul, 2013 04:47 PMOffered by
Introduction to the institute
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Call for abstracts, International Symposium on Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM - 2014), CWRDM, Kozhikode, Kerala
Posted on 04 Jul, 2013 12:11 PMOrganisers
Centre for Water Resources Development and Management (CWRDM)
Venue
Kozikhode, Kerala
About the symposium
![IWRM 2014](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/iwrm.png?itok=3FrbTp7n)
Opening for Programme Associate ( Western Ghats), Nature Conservation Foundation, Mysore
Posted on 04 Jul, 2013 11:00 AMOffered by
Nature Conservation Foundation
About the vacancy
The candidate shall
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The Himalayan states - are they India's crown jewels or distant cousins?
Posted on 04 Jul, 2013 10:25 AMLeft, right, up, down...bump, bump, bump! That was me… being thrown about on all sides of the jeep that I was in. No, I wasn’t off-roading! I was on an investigative mission to Pinrow, a village in Nainital district, Uttarakhand from my home. I was investigating the impact of the state government's push for 100% of child births to happen in the hospitals.
![Nandadevi at sunrise](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/nandadevi_at_sunrise.jpg?itok=Di51jQ9J)
Toilet under the open sky for 73% of rural India
Posted on 01 Jul, 2013 10:00 AMToilet under the open sky for 73% of rural India
The Planning commission has found that 73% of rural India practices open defecation despite many sanitation programmes encouraged by the government. The main reason for this is the unavailability of toilets.
![Open defecation continues due to lack of toilets](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/od.png?itok=c-yfw14s)
An appeal to donate generously for the Uttarakhand tragedy, Peoples Science Institute, Dehradun
Posted on 27 Jun, 2013 12:01 PMAppeal by
About the appeal
Havoc created by the Uttarakhand deluge is unprecedented. Cloudbursts, heavy rainfall and losses incurred in terms of human life and property have turned an exceptional natural phenomenon into an ongoing grieving tragedy.
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