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3rd Indian National Groundwater Conference (INGWC-2020), CWRDM, Kozhikode
Posted on 02 Aug, 2019 01:26 AMCentre for Water Resources Development and Management (CWRDM) is organizing the Indian National Groundwater Conference (INGWC-2020) to discuss 'Groundwater Resources Management for Sustaina
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How do farmers perceive soil erosion?
Posted on 01 Aug, 2019 03:24 PMRegionally and globally, soil erosion is a major contributor to total land degradation.
![A farmer in Pochampally (Image:Saurabh Chatterjee, Flickr Commons, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/pochampally.jpg?itok=1XVQfwuU)
Meghalaya draft water policy, Inter-State River Water Disputes (Amendment) Bill both get approval
Posted on 16 Jul, 2019 10:34 PMMeghalaya's draft water policy gets approval
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Certificate Programme by Samaj Pragati Sahayog (SPS)
Posted on 16 Jul, 2019 12:37 PM
To apply for this programme, write to waterpractitioners@gmail.com
Budget 2019 talks big on water
Posted on 10 Jul, 2019 02:04 PMNirmala Sitharaman, Finance Minister alluded to gaon, garib and kisan as the centre of all policies of this government, while announcing a clutch of schemes aimed at the rural and urban poor.
![Indian children tapping water (Image: Global Water Partnership, Flickr Commons, CC BY NC-SA 2.0)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/indian-children-tapping-water.jpg?itok=otjkRpho)
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)
How millets can make India’s food basket climate-resilient
Posted on 02 Jul, 2019 03:38 PMNew Delhi, July 1 (India Science Wire): Increasing temperatures, changing monsoon and more frequent extreme climate events are posing a threat to food security in India.
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Digging deeper to cope with droughts
Posted on 01 Jul, 2019 09:14 PMIndia is witnessing the second driest pre-monsoon season in the last 65 years. As the country eagerly eyes the monsoon clouds, the delay so far has now widened the rain deficit to 43%.
![Coping with droughts, a challenge for farmers (Image Source: Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/droughts_a_0.jpg?itok=yYAVyVoF)
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)
Economics of land degradation: India’s new environment targets
Posted on 28 Jun, 2019 09:38 AMManaging natural resources, the sustainable way
![Minister of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Prakash Javadekar with representatives of UNCCD, IUCN and other panelists at the June 17th meeting. (Photo: DD News Hindi)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/desertificaion1.jpg?itok=RB1KmjKq)