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Groundwater
The key to successfully managing groundwater in India
Posted on 23 Mar, 2014 10:47 PMDr. Himanshu Kulkarni is the Executive Director of the Advanced Center for Water Resources Development and Management (ACWADAM), a non-profit organisation in Pune. It is a premier education and research institution, which facilitates work on groundwater management through action research programmes and training.
![A study group observing groundwater in a well](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/dsc_0222tp.jpg?itok=ZG5mq6SO)
A village becomes water secure
Posted on 23 Mar, 2014 10:12 PMMewat, a historical region comprising of the present Mewat district of Haryana and parts of Alwar, Bharatpur and Dholpur districts of Rajasthan, lies in a semi-arid belt. It experiences variable rainfall annually and receives, on average, 336 mm to 540 mm, as per the Mewat Development Agency.
![Water scarcity in Mewat](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/women.jpg?itok=hCCebv4q)
Sikkim's springs discharge 50% lesser over the last decade
Posted on 19 Mar, 2014 11:36 PMThe Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report predicts large scale changes in temperature and precipitation over the Asian land mass. In the mountains, this translates to less snow, more intense but shorter episodes of rainfall and insufficient groundwater recharge, thereby resulting in the drying up of water sources.
![Rural water security in Sikkim](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/sikkim_0.png?itok=8h3up5NA)
Water - not a gender-neutral resource
Posted on 19 Mar, 2014 10:46 PMWater is not ‘gender-neutral’, especially in India. It is the woman of the house who walks an average of 6 km each day to collect water for household use. In the Kumaon region, a newly married bride visits the family spring to fetch water a day after the wedding, in a symbolic tradition of water responsibility.
![Women & water ( Source: Arghyam)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/women_and_water.png?itok=2btpZMbF)
A multi-pronged approach to improve livelihoods in MP
Posted on 17 Mar, 2014 03:46 PMA little less than 40 km away from the district headquarters of Tikamgarh in northern Madhya Pradesh lies a watershed, which is an area of land where all of the water that is under it or drains off of it goes into the same place (US Environmental Protection Agency).
![Farmer looks at the water conservation efforts](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/farmer_2_0.jpg?itok=HjaWO5lq)
Invite to the course on 'Spring Protection', Grampari, Panchgani, Maharashtra
Posted on 11 Mar, 2014 11:14 AMGet more information on the course 'Spring Protection'.
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Kerala's seas are rich in sand: GSI
Posted on 10 Mar, 2014 07:54 AMKerala seas's rich in sand, says GSI
![Ponnani Sea Shore in Kerala (Source: Wikipedia)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/ponnani_sea_shore.jpg?itok=-OWpe34X)
Krishi Vigyan Kendra to the rescue!
Posted on 07 Mar, 2014 10:27 AMNidhan is about 30 km away from its district headquarter Morena, Madhya Pradesh. The village receives an annual average rainfall of 450 mm concentrated in the months of July and August. While much of the village depends on rainfed agriculture, the main source of irrigation in the rabi (winter) season is borewells.
![The farmer got bumper crop of pigeon pea](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/pigeon_pea.jpg?itok=CB9UpSsg)
Princely' private ponds
Posted on 07 Mar, 2014 10:14 AMCharkhari, a princely state of India in the colonial period was once a beautiful settlement founded by Saurabh Singh Bundela, a Rajput King. Acceded to India post-Independence, the town is now located in Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh. The place was home to intricate water management systems in the past.
![A talab in the fort city of Charkhari](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/charkhari.jpg?itok=xNS1h9D6)
Water across Northern Railways highly contaminated
Posted on 05 Mar, 2014 11:25 PMWater across Northern Railways highly contaminated, says report
![Water tap at a railway station](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/img_20140216_093017.jpg?itok=AGmOS3vY)