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February 12, 2021 The havoc points to the faultlines in the developmental planning of ecologically sensitive areas.
The glacial burst in Chamoli is nature’s way of telling the state not to play havoc with the local ecology. (Image: Down to Earth)
December 26, 2019 Policy matters this week
The Mandovi river disputed between Karnataka and Goa (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)
December 6, 2019 A report by the India Rivers Forum highlights the need to focus further than the main stem of the Ganga river.
Distant snow clad mountains, the smaller hills and the Ganga river (Image: Srimoyee Banerjee, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0)
November 27, 2019 Policy matters this week
An irrigation well at Randullabad, Maharashtra (Source: India Water Portal on Flickr)
Locals rejoice as coal mining banned in Mahan forest
Policy matters this week Posted on 31 Mar, 2015 12:12 AM

Coal Ministry bans mining in Mahan forest

Coal mines in Jharsuguda district
Land Bill opposed in the Rajya Sabha
Policy matter this week Posted on 17 Mar, 2015 04:28 PM

Opposition to the Land Acquisition (Amendment) Bill

Construction activity on what was once a farm land
Unseasonal rains damage crops worth Rs 10,000 crore
News this week Posted on 09 Mar, 2015 08:47 PM

Rabi crop damaged in north and central India

Rainy clouds hovering over Manipur's farmland
Environment Ministry lied to Supreme Court about the Uttarakhand dam report
Policy matters this week Posted on 24 Feb, 2015 11:08 AM

Centre presents an opposite picture in the Uttarakhand dam case

Ganga at Kaudiyala
Water Untouched: A film on Dalits' lack of access
Forming 17% of India's popultion, Dalits still have to depend on the goodwill of dominant castes for many things including access to basics. Why? Posted on 19 Feb, 2015 08:59 AM

“The Dalits of this country get access to water on the goodwill of the dominant caste. Water to untouchables is still miles away,” says Goldy M George, a Dalit activist and an expert on Dalit rights.

A Dalit woman in Ekta Nagar, Raipur
India ranked 12th in mismanaging plastic waste
News this week Posted on 17 Feb, 2015 08:28 PM

8 million tonnes of plastic waste dumped into world's oceans in 2010: Study

Two oceans meeting at Dhanushkodi, Tamil Nadu
Maharashtra Government puts its rivers in danger
Policy matters this week Posted on 27 Jan, 2015 12:29 PM

Mahashtra scraps state's River Regulation Zone policy

View of the river Mula in Pune, Maharashtra
Norms violated for Ken-Betwa river link's public hearing: Activists
News this week Posted on 12 Jan, 2015 11:01 PM

Activists say that the villagers were informed late for the public hearing of the Ken-Betwa river link

People's public hearing
Water wars: Not what you think!
India has a role to play in trans-boundary water interactions in the South Asian region. Cooperation, not war, could be resulting outcomes. Posted on 09 Jan, 2015 09:31 AM

Since the 1990s, it has often been predicted that all the conflicts over this century will be over water and that they will be fought in the South Asian region, which is undergoing a rapid growth in population coupled with a gradual decrease in water resources.

The Brahmaputra river (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
Tare Ganga Par'
The Government of India has commissioned a consortium of IITs to clean up the Ganga. How are they going about it? Dr. Tare, head of this consortium, speaks exclusively to the India Water Portal. Posted on 07 Jan, 2015 09:46 AM

A consortium of the seven Indian Institutes of Technology has been formed and charged with the preparation of a basin-wide management plan to restore the Ganga. What have they proposed for the river?

In an exclusive interview with the India Water Portal, Dr. Tare explained the IIT consortium's vision for the Ganga and the steps that they are taking to achieve it.

Sunset on the Ganga at Garhmukteshwar
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