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India gets its first wetland conservation centre
Posted on 17 Feb, 2021 11:35 AMCountry’s first wetland conservation centre set up on World Wetland Day
![Deepor beel, Assam (Image Source: IWP Flickr photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-02/12217810424_b5fcc4420c_c.jpg?itok=Lj0TvrV-)
Disaster strikes Uttarakhand, yet again
Posted on 17 Feb, 2021 11:28 AMUttarakhand glacier disaster: Death toll rises to 58 as rescue operation continues
![Flash Floods in Chamoli, Uttarakhand (Image Source: India.com)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-02/Presentation1.jpg?itok=_lew5PVH)
Bringing life to a dying stream
Posted on 09 Feb, 2021 08:23 PMLocated in the Ghatanji block in Yavatmal district of Maharashtra, Jarur village has seen a good monsoon this year.
![The communities are aware of the importance of harvesting and storing rainwater for meeting their needs, and have established several rules and norms for use of common resources. (Image: FES)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-02/1.jpg?itok=pSFlwHMj)
Professor Brij Gopal, a tireless advocate of India’s rivers!
Posted on 03 Feb, 2021 03:06 PMWe best remember Professor Brij Gopal as someone who was very frank in his criticism of river and wetland policies. He strongly voiced the need for conserving river ecology and conceptualised the river regulation zone to offer legal protection to river floodplains from activities that could threaten the health of rivers.
![River Ken in Madhya Pradesh (Image Source: Shivamd2d via Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-02/Kenriver.jpg?itok=2c9bsO4_)
Breathing life into the dying rivers of Pune!
Posted on 25 Jan, 2021 10:45 PMIn this year’s India Rivers Week (IRW), Jeevitnadi, an organisation working on rivers in Pune city received the prestigious Bhagirath Prayaas Samman for its exemplary work on spreading awareness and undertaking steps to change the situation of rivers in the city!
![Mutha, the lifeline of Pune city (Image Source: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-01/Mutha%203.jpg?itok=3BabK-y2)
Ganga's cure lies in people's will for a change
Posted on 25 Jan, 2021 12:51 PMIt was Bhagirath who chose to leave his kingdom and commit to austere tapasya, for a thousand years, in order to bring Ganga down from the heavens.
![Ganga river at Bithoor (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-01/6171495205_eb1660c853_c.jpg?itok=KRWEtP0Y)
Submit report on the need for clearance of National Waterway-1: NGT to MoEF
Posted on 23 Dec, 2020 02:17 PMNGT seeks report on the need for clearance of inland waterway projects in Ganga
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Plundered rivers, vanishing ecosystems: Sandmining in India’s west
Posted on 16 Dec, 2020 10:51 AMUnsustainable sandmining practices continue to be rampant in India. This has not only threatened the river ecosystems, but also led to commodification of river sand, a product in high demand in the construction industry. The high profits involved have turned sand mining into a highly competitive business with the sand mafia dominating the scene.
![River sand continues to be plundered for the construction industry (Source: P Jeganathan/Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2020-12/Sand%20mining2.jpg?itok=j8ov-3Co)
Study using geo-tagged bottles unravels plastic pollution
Posted on 09 Dec, 2020 04:53 PMPlastic pollution can travel thousands of kilometres in just a few months, finds new study using geo-tagged bottles
![Plastic pollution by a river (Source: IWP Flickr photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2020-12/2935403892_ba0f30ab05_c.jpg?itok=pGD_b1hY)
New packaged drinking water rules to apply from January 1, 2021
Posted on 09 Dec, 2020 12:43 PMRevised standards for packaged drinking water to apply from January 1st, 2021
![Filtration plants in a packaging water units (Image source: Tushar Trivedi)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2020-12/packaged_water.jpg?itok=_FHenyb4)