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Harmful chemicals found in tap water samples: Study
Posted on 18 Jul, 2022 03:47 PMStudy finds harmful chemicals in tap water samples
![Harmful chemical is tap water samples (Source: IWP Flickr album)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2022-07/8302152833_41fe4f736f_c.jpg?itok=vBen4Dio)
Panel takes note of two project proposals that could affect Yamuna floodplains
Posted on 18 Jul, 2022 12:51 PMNGT panel raises concern about two project proposals that could affect Yamuna floodplains
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Ichamati: River of poetry is dying a slow death
Posted on 14 Jul, 2022 07:01 PMRiver Ichamati is venerated as a living entity and its fertile flood plains have been catering to the expanding human-mediated demands apart from harbouring an enormous assemblage of aquatic flora and fauna.
![Illegal transverse check dams (Badhals) built on Ichamati near a village in Basirhat (Image: Prithviraj Nath @ TheWaterChronicles)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2022-07/lead.jpg?itok=Zvps0qhG)
Warming waters will lead to gasping rivers in India
Posted on 08 Jul, 2022 03:33 PMRiver water temperature, dissolved oxygen and river health, the linkages
River Water Temperature (RWT), and Dissolved Oxygen (DO) are crucial indicators of the water quality of rivers and determine the health of the river and its ecosystem.
![The Karamana river in Thiruvanathapuram, Kerala (Image Source: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2022-07/karamana.jpg?itok=qTTUfexS)
Extreme events take 231 lives during pre-monsoon: IMD
Posted on 28 Jun, 2022 02:34 PMIMD seasonal analysis shows 231 lives lost during the pre-monsoon season due to extreme weather events
![Floods during pre-monsoon season claim 81 lives this year. Photo for representation only (Image source: IWP Flickr photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2022-06/9319697485_dfcb31cdcc_c.jpg?itok=Za1uFVfN)
Three mining projects in Chhattisgarh’s Hasdeo Arand forest on hold following protests
Posted on 28 Jun, 2022 08:05 AMChhattishgarh government puts three mining projects in Hasdeo Arand forest on idefinite hold
![A devastated forest at a coal mining site. Photo for representation only (Image source: IWP Flickr photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2022-06/15010336808_383bd10b55_c%20%281%29.jpg?itok=6KAhAy1e)
India-Bangladesh floods change course of children’s lives as entire districts submerged
Posted on 23 Jun, 2022 05:55 PM![Millions affected after deadly floods affect the two countries (Image: Save the Children)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2022-06/flood1.jpg?itok=rS-I_sFO)
Regulating water bodies in the Kashmir valley
Posted on 19 Jun, 2022 09:48 AMNature has bestowed Kashmir valley with abundant water resources on which its vast population depends in myriad ways since time immemorial. People derive their livelihoods from the numerous direct and indirect activities related to these water bodies. In spite of their immense benefits, the water bodies and wetlands are treated as wastelands in Kashmir.
![Gil Sar lake, Jammu and Kashmir (Image: Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2022-06/gil-sar.jpg?itok=bmf6EApW)
Damned by pollution, doomed by beautification
Posted on 15 Jun, 2022 12:58 PMPune has been a water rich city and the Mula and the Mutha rivers that flow through the city are tributaries that join to form the Mula Mutha river in the city that joins the Bhima and then later, the Krishna river.
![The highly polluted and encroached Mula Mutha river in Pune (Image: Alexey Komarov via Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2022-06/Mula-Mutha_River_in_Pune.jpg?itok=eFZ0Gu-B)
Etalin hydroelectric project: Centre grants nod, FAC approval awaited
Posted on 08 Jun, 2022 01:20 PMDespite concerns, Etalin hydropower project gets government nod, FAC yet to give clearance
![Upper Dibang Valley District, Arunachal Pradesh, India (Source: Wikipedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2022-06/Dibang_valley_%287453899412%29_0.jpg?itok=s-dHBT1j)