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Manual scavenging is inhumane: SC
Posted on 24 Sep, 2019 01:08 PMSupreme Court question authorities on why manual scavenging still prevails
![Despite the ban, manual scavenging continues. (Image courtesy: The Hindu)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/th-drainage_2210670f_0.jpg?itok=4Kq-rfWS)
Telangana government, tribals oppose uranium mining in Nallamala forests
Posted on 17 Sep, 2019 05:11 PMTelangana government, tribals stand against proposed uranium mining in Nallamala forests
![A view of the Nallamala Forests (Source: Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/800px-nallamala_view.jpg?itok=GIEDFgvV)
What’s shit got to do with child health?
Posted on 02 Sep, 2019 06:35 PMA pig snorts after emerging from the open drain that passes through a slum in the Digha area of south Patna. Small children crawl on the road nearby with slime dribbling from their nose.
![Studies indicate that more children stunted in India than in sub-Saharan Africa (Image: MOSPI)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/children_1.jpg?itok=AwLt_h6R)
Floods claim 227 lives; Centre proposes river basin management bill to check floods
Posted on 14 Aug, 2019 01:37 PMSouthwest monsoon claims 227 lives
![Rescue efforts underway during the floods in Chennai in 2015 (Source: IWP Flickr photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/23431905981_443a72901a_z_3.jpg?itok=yUR0cppl)
Fertiliser sector’s bleak record on water use in India
Posted on 06 Aug, 2019 02:09 PMCentre for Science and Environment (CSE), a New Delhi based non-profit has rated the country’s fertilizer sector on several parameters, in a first of its kind study. The rating, done over an 18-month-long process, covered 28 of the 32 functional fertilizer units in the country.
![There is need to improve the environmental performance of the fertiliser sector through multi-directional initiatives (Image: MaDailyGist)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/fertiliser-plant_web_3.jpg?itok=nc1eXBHD)
Himalayan states call for green bonus and a separate ministry
Posted on 31 Jul, 2019 05:35 PMHimalayan states demand green bonus and separate ministry from Centre
![The Himalayas (Source: IWP Flickr photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/11446516223_0cd23d50dd_z_1.jpg?itok=pZn9l9H_)
Spending a summer building scalable water access in rural India
Posted on 25 Jul, 2019 04:08 PMThis summer I had the incredible opportunity, to work with the Tata Trusts and their Tata Water Mission (TWM) initiative, exploring avenues to provide scalable water access to stakeholders in rural communities.
![Stream Network in Tezpur, Assam. Image credit: Rohit Sar](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/1_e0wzvn-0umfscqztkuosmq.jpeg?itok=Wvm1mp_X)
The many facets to the fluoride problem in Chikkaballapur, Karnataka
Posted on 11 Jul, 2019 03:26 PMChikkaballapur is a district in the state of Karnataka, just north of the capital Bengaluru. A peri-urban area that was once an agricultural centre for this region, today Chikkaballapur is facing a unique problem.
![A can of 20 litres of RO filtered water costs around Rs. 20 in Chikballapur. Image credit: Karthik Seshan](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/image1.jpeg?itok=nYRdZchZ)
Cultivating more millets to make food production climate resilient in India
Posted on 09 Jul, 2019 02:32 PMCrop production is highly influenced by the sensitivity of crops to variations in climate and can have major implications for food supply and rural livelihoods. The effects of climate change are increasing in India, where extreme rainfall events have become more frequent and spatially more variable.
![A millet crop ready for harvest in rural India (Image Source: Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/millets_india.jpg?itok=7eqh--AG)
Women hold the key to water for food security and nutrition
Posted on 01 Jul, 2019 12:34 PMThe water sector remains male dominated at different scales, from engineers and technocrats responsible for designing irrigation systems, to upper caste and upper class men who decide on the location of canals, borewells, tanks, and other water systems at the grassroots level.
![A woman from the Ahir tribe at Chapredi village, east of Bhuj with cotton husks. (Image: Meena Kadri, Flickr Commons, CC BY-ND 2.0](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/womn_cotton.jpg?itok=1kOucera)