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May 8, 2024 What is the ecosystem based approach to water management? How can it help in solving the water woes of states in the Deccan Plateau?
An ecosystem based approach to water management (Image Source: India Water Portal)
March 13, 2024 As cities such as Bangalore grapple with the water crisis, understanding the value of conserving groundwater to prevent this from happening in the future is urgently needed!
Groundwater, a threatened resource (Image Source: India Water Portal)
December 30, 2023 भूजल में आर्सेनिक, फ्लोराइड के मामले में एनजीटी ने "जिम्मेदारी से भागने" के लिए 28 राज्यों, केंद्रशासित प्रदेशों, सीजीडब्ल्यूए को नोटिस जारी किया।
भूजल में आर्सेनिक,फ्लोराइड जैसे जहरीले तत्व
December 12, 2023 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)
September 9, 2023 Effective governance is crucial for addressing the water sector challenges and ensuring sustainable water management
Governance mechanisms often fail to ensure effective community participation, leading to top-down approaches that may not suit local contexts (Image: Hippopx; Creative Commons Zero - CC0)
August 28, 2023 What are the reasons behind the sluggish pace of technology adoption for solutions related to water and climate change?
Agtech introduces fresh advancements and creativity to established farming methods through the utilization of digitalization and contemporary approaches. (Image: Ankit Chandra)
Changing crop types and water scarcity: The case of Marathwada
What are the reasons for enhancement of drought like conditions in Marathwada in recent years? A study provides answers. Posted on 27 Aug, 2023 04:57 AM

Marathwada is one of the most drought-prone regions of India and the increasing severity of droughts and their adverse impacts on socioeconomic conditions in the region have been of major concern in recent years. Majority of the area of Marathwada is under rain-fed agriculture and the summer monsoon rainfall is crucial for agricultural production in the region.

Sugarcane, the water thirsty crop of Marathwada (Image Source: Azhar Feder, Wikimedia Commons-CC-BY-SA-3.0)
Qualitative and quantitative data analysis pathways
Skills for NGO workers and researchers in the water sector
Posted on 09 Aug, 2023 10:56 AM

Water and Livelihoods Foundation (WLF) is an NGO based in Hyderabad, India. WLF strives towards achieving water security and livelihoods enhancement of poor through community development initiatives, action research & innovations and skill development. Contributing to the skill building of NGOs, development workers and researchers is one of the major objectives of WLF.

Nudging farmers to conserve water
Study investigates whether the package of both training and comparisons would be more effective than training alone to urge farmers to conserve water in a field experiment in Haryana. Posted on 25 Jul, 2023 10:07 PM

In a randomized field experiment, researchers test whether training medium scale farmers in an agricultural water reduction practice reduces water use from common aquifers in Haryana, India.

Alternate Wetting and Drying (Image: Zoheb Mahmud Khan)
Technology aids safety of Kerala fisherfolk during monsoons
News updates this fortnight Posted on 17 Jul, 2023 10:14 AM

Communication technologies aid fisherfolk in Kerala to remain safe during the monsoons

Fishermen venturing out into the sea in Vizhinjham in Kerala (Image Source: India Water Portal)
NGT forms committee for submerging island protection policy in India
Policy matters this fortnight Posted on 15 Jul, 2023 03:45 PM

NGT forms committee to frame policy to protect submerging islands in India

Committee to frame policy to protect islands (Image: PxFuel)
Namakkal district of Tamil Nadu sets an example by becoming water secure
News this fortnight Posted on 05 Jul, 2023 04:40 PM

Namkaal district of Tamil Nadu shows the way to successfully manage water scarcity

Tamil Nadu’s Namakkal district has successfully addressed its water scarcity challenges and become the second-best district in India in terms of groundwater availability according to the Union Jal Shakti Ministry’s annual ranking. 

Being water secure. Image for representation purposes only (Image Source: India Water Portal Flickr photos)
Environmentalists oppose Telangana marine park
Policy matters this fortnight Posted on 04 Jul, 2023 08:39 AM

Environmentalists petition HC against Telangana marine park plan; notice issued

HMDA’s proposal said that it will have over 300 species (Image: WallpaperFlare)
Using water games for economic gains
A field account of how playing a water game helped a remote community utilize its water resources better Posted on 09 Jun, 2023 11:56 AM

It is rightly said that "what is measured is managed better". And we observed this happen at Sagapali village in Keonjhar district of Odisha. This village is in the Nayakote gram panchayat, and has an undulating terrain surrounded by five hillocks. It has forests around it with limited plainlands for cultivation.

Participatory gaming in the community dispels many myths and develops forums for group decision-making on the management of shared natural resources. (Image: FES)
Assam launches ambitious water scheme to train over two lakh students as 'Jal Doots'
Policy matters this fortnight Posted on 01 Jun, 2023 02:35 PM

Assam undertakes an ambitious water scheme to educate more than two lakh youngsters as Jal Doots

Assam intends to reach intends to reach 100% coverage of FHTCs shortly (Image: Wallpaper Flare; Creative Commons)
There’s a rare catfish in your well
Citizen science helps in identifying rare catfish in Kerala’s aquifers. Posted on 16 May, 2023 10:40 AM

A rare species of catfish, has been found in aquifers in Kerala, opening a window to the rich biodiversity that exists even in deep and dark underground subterranean environments where unique organisms survive by adapting to the harsh surroundings informs this paper titled 'Evolution in the dark: Unexpected geneti

Image Source: By Rajeev Raghavan, Remya L. Sundar, C.P. Arjun, Ralf Britz, Neelesh Dahanukar - Evolution in the dark: Unexpected genetic diversity and morphological stasis in the blind, aquifer-dwelling catfish Horaglanis, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=128832101. Link to image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Horaglanis#/media/File:Horaglanis_populi_live.jpg
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