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Rivers
An open letter to Uma Bharti, Minister for Water Resources
Posted on 14 Oct, 2016 03:35 PMHon’ble Madam,
Namaskar.
![View of Betwa river (Source: Manual Menal, Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/betwa_manual-menal-small_0.jpg?itok=6Tl7Gba5)
River transport projects on development track
Posted on 10 Oct, 2016 10:36 AMGovernment starts river transport project with eight waterways
![River transport project work in progress. (Source: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/cauvery_3.jpg?itok=JWOSOCjC)
Cauvery crisis: Karnataka to move SC for more time
Posted on 25 Sep, 2016 09:40 PMKarnataka to seek more time to release Cauvery water
![Cauvery river, Karnataka. (Source: Ashwin Kumar via Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/cauvery_kaveri_river_karnataka_india_2_0.jpg?itok=UKvEF71A)
Why is Lukha feeling blue?
Posted on 24 Sep, 2016 09:07 PMMeghalaya in the northeast of India is richly endowed with natural resources such as streams and rivers as well as mineral resources such as coal, limestone, clay, sillimanite, uranium, and more. The estimated coal reserve in Meghalaya is around 576.48 million tonnes while limestone reserves are around 15,100 million tonnes.
![The Lukha river in Meghalaya. (Source: Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/lukha_river.jpg?itok=dmRCOFq4)
Heavy metals and pesticides pollute Ganga: CPCB
Posted on 19 Sep, 2016 09:40 AMGanga polluted with heavy metals and pesticides: CPCB
![Ganga near Gadmukteshwar. (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/6171494645_920f644b53_z_1_0.jpg?itok=7A2j7XFV)
Release 12,000 cusecs of water to TN: SC to Karnataka
Posted on 19 Sep, 2016 09:20 AMCauvery river dispute: Karnataka to share less water, SC raps the two states over protests
![Cauvery river in Karnataka (Source: AmyNorth via Wikipedia)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/cauvery_kaveri_river_karnataka_india_2.jpg?itok=OImBLWSC)
Cauvery row: When source is the cause
Posted on 17 Sep, 2016 09:27 PMEven as Karnataka and Tamil Nadu fight over their rights on Cauvery water, not much thought has gone into the place where the river originates. Kodagu district, earlier known as Coorg, lies on the eastern slope of Western Ghats, a biological hotspot which is home to the Cauvery and is also the primary catchment area of the river.
![Cauvery river at Kodagu. Source: Rameshng/Wikimedia Commons](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/cauvery2.jpg?itok=TYWibfh7)
A river on fire
Posted on 17 Sep, 2016 05:52 PMRiver Cauvery has been in the epicentre of agitation and violence in the states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu--both fighting over their share of the Cauvery water. Thanks to the deficit monsoon this year, the Cauvery basin reservoirs in both these neighbouring states are only filled half as much as they should be![1].
![Cauvery river at Hogenakal, Karnataka. (Source: IWP Flickr Photos via Claire Arni and Oriole Henri)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/cauvery_river_0.jpg?itok=TgxYOAov)
When Osaka comes to Lucknow
Posted on 14 Sep, 2016 10:14 AMRaghunath Lakhpat is a terrified man. He can only watch warily as the land on either side of his modest home is being dug up by huge earthmovers. “We are stuck in the middle. Sooner or later, we will have to leave. But where will we go? What will we eat?” he asks helplessly.
![Earth movers cluster on the riverbed of the Gomti, engaged in channelizing the river](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/gomti_cover.jpg?itok=_aWu-JXd)
Power crisis: Time to go green
Posted on 08 Sep, 2016 06:33 PMDespite the severe water management crisis India is going through, hydro energy continues to be the second leading source of power, next only to thermal-based energy in the country. Hydropower generates over 16 percent of India’s electricity.
![Tehri, a hydropower dam in Uttarakhand (Source: Mayank Gupta, Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/tehri-wide_angle-mayank_gupta-wikimedia-commons.jpg?itok=hIGyIrZV)