Rainfall and other forms of Precipitation

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May 8, 2024
Ecosystem-based approach to water management: Key to Karnataka’s water future
What is the ecosystem based approach to water management? How can it help in solving the water woes of states in the Deccan Plateau?
An ecosystem based approach to water management (Image Source: India Water Portal)
January 25, 2024
Decoding the moody monsoon
This report by CEEW discusses the findings of a study on India’s first sub-district -level monsoon variability assessment to decode changing rainfall patterns across India during the southwest and northeast monsoon.
The moody monsoon (Image Source: Mayank Makhija via IWP Flickr photos)
August 16, 2023
Raindrops and Ripples
India Water Portal is hosting a photo competition on World Photography Day. Hurry, send us your photos before 31st August!
May 8, 2023
Adaptation and mitigation for monsoon extremes in the Indo Gangetic Plains
Warming will not only lead to a decline, but also trigger monsoon extremes in the Indo Gangetic Plains.
A woman wades through knee-deep water with her belongings. (Picture courtesy - 101Reporters) (Source: IWP Flickr photos)
May 4, 2023
The changing face of monsoon
Climate change is expected to have significant impacts on the Indian monsoon
As per the India Meteorological Department (IMD), instances of heavy rainfall have increased by almost 85% in the country since 2012 (Image: Marina, 2009,Wikimedia Commons)
April 4, 2023
Forests, water fountains of the skies
Forests greatly help in maintaining the water balance of nature by storing water during monsoons and making this water available during dry seasons. India urgently needs to save its forests to prevent droughts and the adverse effects of climate induced global warming.
Forests and soil moisture can act as buffers to store water during dry spells (Image Source: India Water Portal)
Wading through stagnant waters can be risky
Walking unprotected through stagnant or accumulated waters in urban as well as rural areas can expose you to diseases such as leptospirosis. What is leptospirosis? What are its causes? 
Aarti Kelkar Khambete
Posted on 27 Jul, 2023 10:15 AM

The monsoon can drench besides forcing you to wade through flooded stagnant waters in cities or make you to start working happily in the rice fields in rural areas. Rainwater puddles in the fields or stagnant waters in cities are often mixed with water from animal and rodent waste, and sewage in urban areas. Do you know that this can cause diseases such as leptospirosis? 
Working for long hours in collected waters can increase the risk of leptospirosis (Image Source: India Water Portal)
Adaptation and mitigation for monsoon extremes in the Indo Gangetic Plains
Warming will not only lead to a decline, but also trigger monsoon extremes in the Indo Gangetic Plains.
Pant
M.
Bhatla
R.
Ghosh
S.
Das
& Mall
R. K.
Posted on 08 May, 2023 12:46 PM

India is heating up
A woman wades through knee-deep water with her belongings. (Picture courtesy - 101Reporters) (Source: IWP Flickr photos)
The changing face of monsoon
Climate change is expected to have significant impacts on the Indian monsoon
Amita Bhaduri
Posted on 04 May, 2023 12:15 PM

The farmers of Mukhtsar, Punjab, are keeping a close eye on the sky like millions of other small farmers whose livelihoods depend on the yearly monsoon.
As per the India Meteorological Department (IMD), instances of heavy rainfall have increased by almost 85% in the country since 2012 (Image: Marina, 2009,Wikimedia Commons)
Forests, water fountains of the skies
Forests greatly help in maintaining the water balance of nature by storing water during monsoons and making this water available during dry seasons. India urgently needs to save its forests to prevent droughts and the adverse effects of climate induced global warming.
Dawn E. Sebastian
Raghu Murtugudde
Subimal Ghosh
Posted on 04 Apr, 2023 11:30 AM

Forests world over are under threat.
Forests and soil moisture can act as buffers to store water during dry spells (Image Source: India Water Portal)
Tall and deep clouds will trigger intense spells of rain in India
This study finds that rainfall over the west coast of India is becoming more convective and creating sharp and intense rain spells over a short period of time.
A. V. Sreenath
S. Abhilash
P. Vijaykumar
B. E. Mapes
Posted on 31 Mar, 2023 07:30 PM

Extreme rainfall events in India can not only have a massive impact on the agricultural output, but also create havoc in urban areas of the country by affecting lives and livelihoods and destroying property and infrastructure. And India needs to be climate ready to deal with these in the future.
The changing monsoon in India (Image Source: India Water Portal)
India’s first round-the-clock solar village angers pastoralists
News this fortnight
Aarti Kelkar Khambete
Posted on 20 Mar, 2023 09:02 AM

 India's first round the clock solar power plant in Modhera village Gujarat, threatens livelihoods of pastoralists 
Maldharis grazing buffaloes (Image Source: A. J. T. Johnsingh, WWF-India and NCF via Wikimedia Commons)
Preventing floods through grassland conservation
This study found that replacing natural grasslands and forests by exotic species increased the likelihood of flooding during extreme rainfall events in the Nilgiris.
Rajat Ramakant Nayak
Jagdish Krishnaswamy
Srinivas Vaidyanathan
Nick A. Chappell
Ravinder Singh Bhalla
Posted on 21 Jan, 2023 02:54 PM

Erratic rainfall patterns and the risk of floods in mountain landscapes
Grasslands interspersed with pockets of montane Shola forests in the Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu (Image Source: Anand Osuri via Wikimedia Commons)
Local recycling of moisture via wetlands and forests high in North-East India
Floods in Brahmaputra greatly increases the surficial water availability in low lying floodplains and wetlands, promoting enhanced recycling via evaporation.
Akash Ganguly
Harsh Oza
Virendra Padhya
Amit Pandey
Swagatika Chakra
R D Deshpande
Posted on 21 Jan, 2023 09:49 AM

North-East India, home to the wettest place on the planet (Mawsynram), is a major biodiversity hotspot.
The region with its vast wetlands and forest cover is akin to the Amazon (Image: Ashwin Kumar, Wikimedia Commons)
India joins Mangrove Alliance for Climate (MAC) at COP27
News this fortnight
Swati Bansal
Posted on 17 Nov, 2022 01:33 PM

India joins the newly formed Mangrove Alliance for Climate (MAC)
Mangroves in Sunderbans (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)
Climate predictions and tipping points
United in science 2022: The world is heading in the wrong direction
World Meteorological Organization
UNDRR
Posted on 05 Oct, 2022 10:22 PM

Levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2 O) continue to rise.
Cities – responsible for up to 70% of human-caused emissions – will face increasing climate impacts (Image: cocoparisienne, Pixabay)
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