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Karnataka farmers cope as wells fail
Posted on 13 Jan, 2020 07:08 PMLike in many parts of India, Karnataka’s groundwater is a vital source of irrigation water, but has been depleted by a combination of a prolonged, multi-year drought and intensive extraction. Worsening agro-climatic and environmental conditions are threatening the incomes of smallholder farmers and hampering the continued progress in poverty eradication.
![An irrigation well at Randullabad, Maharashtra (Image source: India Water Portal on Flickr; Image used for representational purposes only)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/groundwater_2.jpg?itok=eqjT1jtb)
If she built a country: A film review
Posted on 04 Jan, 2020 10:49 AMMaheen Mirza’s film ‘Agar wo desh banati/ If she built a country’ looks at the widespread displacement on an unprecedented scale for mines and industries in Raigarh, Chhattisgarh.
![The documentary brings attention to how development interventions changed gender relations (Image courtesy: People's Film Collective)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/desh1.jpg?itok=WpnNTpJD)
Junk food red alert
Posted on 29 Dec, 2019 12:50 PMA new study by the Centre for Science and Environment has exposed that levels of salt and fat in junk food is far higher than proposed thresholds in the country.
![The study by CSE underlines the need to regulate bad food (Image: Ankur Gulati, Flickr Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/junk_food.jpg?itok=_-FqFGvA)
Scientists intervene to save dry toilets
Posted on 11 Dec, 2019 11:16 AMNew Delhi, December 10 (India Science Wire): Even as efforts are underway to replace dry latrines with modern septic toilets, a group of scientists at Council of Scientific and Industrial Research’s Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology (CSIR-IHBT) have worked to save one type of traditional dry toilet.
![A traditional dry toilet. Image: India Science Wire](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/india_science_wire_dry_toilet_article_lead_image.png?itok=ZJi4hILX)
CGWB signs MoU for participatory groundwater management
Posted on 27 Nov, 2019 12:06 PMMoU signed for groundwater management through community intervention
![An irrigation well at Randullabad, Maharashtra (Source: India Water Portal on Flickr)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/32493765187_81650bd26f_c_0.jpg?itok=-cTWe26K)
Climate shocks and gender vulnerabilities in the Upper Ganga basin
Posted on 11 Nov, 2019 10:40 AMSocially constructed notions of the different roles and responsibilities of men and women have a huge bearing on access to and control over resources, and subsequently on their vulnerabilities. More often than not, this leads to vulnerabilities that are skewed towards women, more than men.
![Ganga's riverflow at Rishikesh in Uttarakhand (Image courtesy: Ankit Singh; Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/rishikesh_uttarakhand.jpg?itok=AO6hz0nM)
300 million people will be vulnerable to annual coastline flooding by 2050
Posted on 06 Nov, 2019 12:28 PMA new research study by Climate Central, a US-based non-profit research group has projected that 300 million people could face annual coastal flooding triggered by climate change by 2050.
![Aerial view of Chennai during floods 2015 (Image: Veethika, Wikimedia Commons, CC-SA 4.0 International)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/aerial_view_of_chennai_during_floods.jpg?itok=uOj9j2Dh)
Conflicts over land on the rise in India
Posted on 22 Oct, 2019 11:42 AMLand-related conflicts in India are on the rise despite some of the most progressive legislations to protect people’s rights over land and forest.
![The maldharis from kutch on their own road trip (Image: Malay Maniar, Flickr Commons, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/maldhari.jpg?itok=vuw49M8g)
In conversation with K. J. Joy of SOPPECOM
Posted on 21 Oct, 2019 10:41 AMTo many in the water sector, K. J. Joy needs no introduction. An activist at heart, Joy is known for his untiring rights based work in mobilising communities in rural Maharashtra, and for his research work on water and water related conflicts including inter-state riparian water conflicts.
![KJ Joy speaks at a felicitation for the late Professor Ramaswamy Iyer.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/joy_ramaswamy_iyer_felicitation.jpg?itok=84xa2_AF)
Manipur’s floating lake at risk
Posted on 18 Oct, 2019 12:37 PMLoktak, the largest freshwater lake in North East India is also known as the ‘floating lake’ for the numerous phumdis or masses of vegetation it supports. The phumdis float around on the lake’s surface due to decay from the bottom.
![A home on Loktak lake in Moirang, Manipur (Image: Sharada Prasad CS, Wikipedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/800px-a_home_on_loktak_lake_moirang_manipur_india.jpg?itok=523C5xX9)