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Groundwater
Government amends e-Waste Management Rules
Posted on 27 Mar, 2018 05:07 AME-waste management rules amended to improve implementation efficiency
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India plans to route water from Sharda to Yamuna
Posted on 27 Mar, 2018 04:42 AMIndia seeks to bring water from Nepal's Sharda river to supplement Yamuna near Delhi
![Yamuna turns into a sewer at many areas. (Picture courtesy: The Indian Express)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/yamuna_sewage.jpg?itok=XWHh2Ji0)
Fluorosis detection: A step towards providing clean water
Posted on 26 Mar, 2018 05:21 AMRabindra Kumar Jena, the Member of Parliament (MP) from Balasore, Odisha knew that something was wrong with the health of people in a part of his constituency but he could not put his finger to it. By sheer chance, in 2015, he got to know that this seemed to be related to excessive fluoride in water, which caused a disease called skeletal fluorosis.
![People became crippled in Balasore due to skeletal fluorosis. Image: FKAN](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/balasore1.jpg?itok=5jhJcmJ6)
No water for irrigation from Sardar Sarovar dam
Posted on 20 Mar, 2018 12:20 PMFarmers anxious as government stops water supply from the Sardar Sarovar dam for irrigation
![Sardar Sarovar canal (Picture courtesy: Wikimedia commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/sardar_sarovar_canal_with_flow.jpg?itok=N2aS30O8)
Plastic ban in place, Maharashtra to encourage recycling
Posted on 20 Mar, 2018 11:49 AMMaharashtra makes it mandatory for dairies and milk retailers to repurchase poly packs for recycling
![Ban on plastics to be implemented in phases in Maharashtra. (Picture courtesy: Indian Express)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/plastic_ban.jpg?itok=35K0QYbd)
Horizontal wells bring more water
Posted on 19 Mar, 2018 01:09 PMHanumanthappa Ramanagar from Kushtagi taluka of Karnataka’s Koppal district has 15 acres of arid land with two deep wells on two sides of the land. One is a “very old” dug well and the other, a tubewell, is just 10 years old. Both were on the verge of going defunct two years ago. “There were many areas of land around us which were facing a similar fate.
![Govind Ram Jat and his team from Rajasthan. (Pic courtesy: 101Reporters)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/farmers-horizontal_boring.jpg?itok=OcA4KwOw)
Karnataka to stop industries from using fresh river water
Posted on 13 Mar, 2018 11:19 AMKarnataka to formulate plan to prohibit industries from drawing fresh river water
![Karnataka plans to regulate fresh water use by industries. (Picture courtesy: India Spend)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/water_river.jpg?itok=h1vWOyH9)
Farmers’ plight: Leaving land for a lesser life
Posted on 13 Mar, 2018 06:24 AMScanty rainfall, depleting groundwater levels, barren farmlands and mass migration of farmers to cities for better livelihood--this is the reality of most of rural India today. Many parts of India are witnessing this growing trend of farmers leaving their lands in search of jobs in cities.
![Many villages look deserted due to mass migration of villagers to cities for jobs. Houses are abandoned and are getting ruined due to nonuse. (Pic courtesy: 101Reporters)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/rsz_many_old_people_in_the_village_have_no_proper_place_as_the_houses_are_collapsed_.jpg?itok=4VYMXB5e)
Arsenic-affected village gets water after two decades
Posted on 12 Mar, 2018 05:41 AMKaudikasa is a small village with a population of just 350 people in the Ambagad Chowki block of the Rajnandgaon district in Chhattisgarh. Despite its small size, Kaudikasa village has been in the news for all the wrong reasons. Severe health problems have been reported from the village, thanks to acute arsenic contamination in its groundwater.
![Yuvraj Singh, a former sarpanch of Kaudikasa near the tube well reported to have the highest level of arsenic contamination.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/38815330440_fb9d5c937f_z.jpg?itok=vO6sXoDQ)
Hot springs harbour microbial diversity
Posted on 28 Feb, 2018 08:31 PMMicroorganisms can be found in almost every habitat in the environment owing to their capacity to adapt and to survive. Some of them can withstand extremely hot environments such as natural hot springs. Studying such organisms can help in understanding not just why they are so hardy but may also yield new and useful chemicals.
![The team of scientists from the National Collection of Industrial Microorganisms (NCIM) who are conducting the study at the National Chemical Laboratory, Pune. (Pic courtesy: ISW)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/ncl_dharne_grp.jpg?itok=crE1sfmN)