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Groundwater
Meandering waterways: the interconnectedness of people’s action on water availability
Posted on 09 Mar, 2021 01:21 PM“Everything is connected”. I watched a docuseries named “Connected: the hidden science of everything” where a journalist named Latif Nasser investigates how we and the universe are connected. After watching this docuseries, I thought about it and tried gathering pieces of evidence regarding this connectivity around me over the past one year.
Study detects high levels of arsenic in cooked rice in Bihar
Posted on 03 Mar, 2021 08:01 AMExtensive evidence of elevated arsenic in the food chain, mainly rice, wheat and vegetables exists.
![Median excess lifetime cancer risk of 2 per 10,000 from food arsenic exposure in Bihar. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-02/Arsenic_Poisoning_0.jpg?itok=nULY11Qq)
Managing groundwater demand: the way forward
Posted on 02 Mar, 2021 07:25 AMGroundwater reserves are depleting at rapid rates in India, which is one of the world’s largest consumer of groundwater with it providing 60 percent of the irrigation needs of the country.
![Groundwater, a valuable resource! (Image Source: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-03/20150902_100433.jpg?itok=vrutxFuL)
Digital tool to monitor groundwater
Posted on 28 Feb, 2021 09:41 AMAccording to a 2006 report by the Inter-Agency Task Force, titled ‘Gender, Water and Sanitation’, women’s participation in water governance projects is important for their success. Given the gendered division of labour in our society, it is not hard to see why.
![Women use an open source groundwater monitoring tool that enables collection of water level data of wells and its collation on a web platform for easy access by all. (Image: FES)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-02/Well%20Water%20Monitoring%202.jpg?itok=X0xLzUmT)
Baravas - Unique water harvesting structures of Maharashtra
Posted on 24 Feb, 2021 10:56 PMTraditional groundwater storage structures such as cisterns, stepwells, tanks, and wells in India are well known and had cultural, religious, social, and utilitarian significance in olden times.
MARVI: Securing groundwater supplies through engaging village communities
Posted on 23 Feb, 2021 06:02 PMGroundwater levels across India have been falling rapidly, affecting the livelihood and wellbeing of village communities. Top-down approaches to groundwater management have not worked.
![Designing participatory processes to assist village level discovery and implementation of solutions for sustaining groundwater use and improved livelihoods (Image: MARVI)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-02/marvi1.jpg?itok=axsoJGfQ)
Disaster strikes Uttarakhand, yet again
Posted on 17 Feb, 2021 11:28 AMUttarakhand glacier disaster: Death toll rises to 58 as rescue operation continues
![Flash Floods in Chamoli, Uttarakhand (Image Source: India.com)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-02/Presentation1.jpg?itok=_lew5PVH)
2020: Crammed in disasters, yet filled with hope
Posted on 17 Jan, 2021 04:30 PMThe year 2020 came with numerous disasters, not just COVID-19, a pandemic that brought the planet to a standstill, but many other natural calamities. During the year, the country suffered from cyclones, extreme rainfall, floods and locust attacks.
![All was not negative for 2020 in the water sector as many states and districts gained credit for themselves (Image Source: IWP Flickr Album)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-01/2295713140_38059b8ec1_c.jpg?itok=m7MF2hCh)
Lost to fluorosis
Posted on 21 Dec, 2020 12:33 PM“What should I do? I have been bedridden for two years now. My hands and feet do not work.
![The state needs to play a key role in identifying fluorosis as well as in developing and executing an action plan to control it. (Image: Rab Nawaz Alam)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2020-12/fluorosis.jpg?itok=CJVPb3j1)
Springs that sustain millions
Posted on 16 Nov, 2020 01:07 PMFor a long time, villagers of Thanakasoga in Sirmaur, Himachal Pradesh knew about the depletion of their drinking water sources and the thirstier future they faced. “We depend on bawdis and natural springs, from where we fetched water. By 2012, our springs were dying and could hardly cater to the local demand.
![Springshed management has brought the much-required difference in people's lives, as the discharge of the springs increased (Image: Kedarnathsmritivan; Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0))](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2020-11/Natural_Water_Spring_locally_know_as_DHARA_PANI-_means_spring_of_naturalwater.jpg?itok=5JmG-82y)