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Groundwater
Decentralised groundwater governance to deal with the groundwater crisis
Posted on 17 Feb, 2020 05:43 PMThe challenges to sustain groundwater dependency in India are many where groundwater over extraction is not only leading to rapid depletion of the resource, but also giving rise to water quality issues in a situation where the response at the level of policy continues to be lukewarm.
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Content Library: Groundwater management
Posted on 10 Feb, 2020 10:11 AMParticipatory GroundWater Management (PGWM) - at its core believes in weaving together scientific and traditional groundwater management methods and making communities the champion of their water resources.
![Women drawing water from a beri (Image: IWP Flickr)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-03/Womenandwater.jpg?itok=jKeNvig3)
Budget 2020: Is the allocation enough to meet the piped water dream
Posted on 09 Feb, 2020 09:25 PMFinance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s budget announcement on February 1, 2020 made a push for piped rural drinking water supply and promised full coverage of all households by 2024.
![Just 21.4 percent of India’s households have access to piped water, as per NSSO data (Image: Niyantha Shekar, Flickr Commons; CC BY-NC 2.0)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/tap_3.jpg?itok=UvTVvyzY)
Managing commons: Need and challenges
Posted on 06 Feb, 2020 07:17 PMCommon pool resources, popularly known as “commons”, are those resources which are accessible to the whole community or village and to which no individual has exclusive ownership or property rights. Commons have two essential characteristics: non-excludability and high-subtractability.
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Perils, politics and prospects of groundwater in India
Posted on 05 Feb, 2020 03:15 PMAfter independence, India was largely food insecure but post Green Revolution around the 1970s, foodgrain production increased manifold consequently reducing food insecurity and poverty in the country, in spite of rapid population growth. Its ability to achieve targeted results was largely dependent on the explosion of groundwater abstraction mechanisms like tubewells.
![An irrigation well at Randullabad, Maharashtra. (Image source: India Water Portal on Flickr)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/groundwater_3.jpg?itok=OTSLWBTH)
What's there for water in the budget kitty?
Posted on 02 Feb, 2020 01:46 PMUnion Finance Minister Ms. Nirmala Sitharaman presented the decade's first union budget in the parliament on 1st February 2020. While presenting budget for 2020-2021, she started with the country’s vision for the decade in which she emphasised on water management and clean rivers as one of the 10 points of vision for the country.
![The budget allocation suggests that the predominant focus of the Ministry of Jal Shakti continues to be on water resources development rather than water resources governance or management (Image: Brian Gratwicke, Flickr Commons, CC BY 2.0)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/kids-swim.jpg?itok=FnoAM3iP)
Call for nominations - Training-cum-Workshop on Water Resources Management for NGOs and Media Personnel’s at National Water Academy
Posted on 31 Jan, 2020 11:18 AMBrief Content:
Micropollutants in groundwater, a grave concern
Posted on 30 Jan, 2020 01:03 PMGroundwater pollution due to organic micropollutants is becoming a major cause of concern in many parts of the world, where water resources are on the decline. India is the largest user of groundwater and the presence of micropollutants in groundwater has been a growing concern. What do studies on micropollutants in groundwater in India show?
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Ramsar tag granted to ten more wetlands
Posted on 30 Jan, 2020 10:36 AM10 more wetlands in the country are now Ramsar sites
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Neeru and the Nilgiris
Posted on 24 Jan, 2020 11:36 AMLocally called Neeru, water of the Nilgiris in its springs and wetlands has been the fountainhead for two main rivers systems of South India. Today, with growing anthropogenic influences, there is a water crisis in the hills that needs our attention more than ever before.
![A view of the Nilgiris (Image credits: Golkul Halan)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/neeru_1.jpg?itok=t5jynk64)