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With no food on their plate, people seek government help
Posted on 20 Aug, 2020 04:44 PMFor about last three weeks, Dhananjay Kumar along with his wife and children have been living on the embankment under their plastic shed following the late night July floods that submerged their house.
![Flood water enters Chanchalia village. (Image source: Umesh Kumar Ray)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/img_20200812_124348.jpg?itok=IXgcmgKl)
Livestock rearers and fishers bear the brunt of cyclone Amphan
Posted on 18 Aug, 2020 10:14 AMThe Amphan cyclone that struck the Sundarbans in the month of May this year has wreaked havoc in the area destroying lives and livelihood. A lot of the locals living in the Sundarbans depend on animal husbandry and fishing to earn a living. The cyclone destroyed animal rearing shelters and swept away most of the cattle and domestic animals.
![The Amphan swept away the chicken coops and other domestic animals. This is Anup Bhakta standing with one of the few goats left after the storm. (Image: WaterAid, Subhrajit Sen)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/a1_0.jpg?itok=VRi6ZBiW)
Groundwater extraction: NGT gets strict with commercial entities
Posted on 12 Aug, 2020 08:41 AMNGT bans granting general permissions for groundwater extraction to commercial entities
![NGT gets strict with commercial entities (Source: IWP Flickr album)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/32493765187_81650bd26f_c_1_0.jpg?itok=VbwhA7fP)
Monsoon experiences a countrywide deficit of 10 percent in July
Posted on 12 Aug, 2020 08:27 AMMonsoon 2020: Countrywide deficit of 10 percent in July; September may have heavy rains
![July experiences rain deficit of 10 percent (Source: IWP Flickr photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/5074883626_33da0b2985_z_0_0.jpg?itok=0wiNPoII)
Bihar floods: 'Living on 2.5 Kg flattened rice’
Posted on 10 Aug, 2020 03:55 PMTwo weeks ago, the Kanakai River flowing through Kishanganj rendered dozens of families homeless. While the people in the region are staying under plastic sheds, the government has turned a blind eye to their plight.
Mohammadin is also one of them. He tells the India Water Portal,
![Locals engaged in repair of broken embankment in Darbhanga (Source: Umesh Kumar Ray)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/img-20200801-wa0010.jpg?itok=xn2N6Bf9)
Interspecies love in a flood-ravaged Assam village
Posted on 08 Aug, 2020 03:51 PMSalmora in Majuli river island in Assam is not any ordinary village. Located on the southeastern corner of the island, surrounded by the mighty Brahmaputra on three sides, this village is remarkable in many ways.
![Potters' families belonging to Kumar community of the village make earthen pots (Image: Mitul Baruah)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/salmora_pottery_photo_mitul_baruah.jpg?itok=VTVz42vA)
India-UK team tackles antimicrobial resistance spread in waterways
Posted on 07 Aug, 2020 11:30 AMAn estimated 58,000 babies die in India every year from superbug infections passed on from their mothers, whilst drug-resistant pathogens cause between 28,000 to 38,000 extra deaths in the European Union every year.
![The Musi river in Hyderabad, which has high concentrations of antibiotics released from production facilities (Image: Newcastle University)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/musi_river_india_standard.jpg?itok=dwsR91Od)
When solving one problem triggers another
Posted on 06 Aug, 2020 06:56 PMCome monsoons and vector borne diseases start making headlines every year in many parts of India, especially mosquito borne diseases like dengue, malaria, chikungunya and Japanese encephalitis.
What are vector borne diseases
![Guppies for mosquito control (Image Source: Rchampagne via Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/guppies_final1.jpg?itok=n9ZxrtSB)
Floods in Bihar: Pregnant woman reaches hospital in a tube boat
Posted on 03 Aug, 2020 01:23 PMFlood havoc continues to increase in Bihar. Until recently, the effect of flood was only in eight districts across the state but now it has spread to ten districts.
![Pregnant woman goes to hospital in flood in a jugaad boat (Source: Umesh K Ray)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/article1.jpg?itok=iaVk4Lfq)
Affected by floods, locals resort to chowkis for safety
Posted on 29 Jul, 2020 05:35 PMFlood waters inundated the house of Ramchandra Yadav, a resident of Khoknaha village of Supaul, for three days. During these days he cooked food by setting up a brigade on the outpost and spent nights at the same post.
![Children taking water from a submerged handpump (Image source: Prabhat Khabar)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/img-20200721-wa0046.jpg?itok=1Dh1pXm6)