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Rural Water
Bringing springs to life: Ensuring water security for Baigas in Madhya Pradesh
Posted on 12 Jul, 2020 07:41 PMNested amongst the Satprura hills lies Kapoti, a village in the Dindori district of Madhya Pradesh. This region is known as Baiga Chak and is inhabited by Baigas, a vulnerable tribal group.
![Children wash hands at a stand post installed in a Primary school at Kapoti Village in Karanjiya, Dhindori, Madhya Pradesh, India (Source: WaterAid India)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/_pv_wateraid_2019_day_3-85-min.jpg?itok=34He4lcO)
Drone to help monitor embankments and save people trapped in floods
Posted on 12 Jul, 2020 05:50 PM#HelloWRD: A social media campaign
![Completed flood protection in Naruar, Bihar (Image Source: Water Resources Department, Government of Bihar, Twitter handle)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/repair_work_on_embankment_0.png?itok=XOG27oVH)
Bhuj cattle rearers face the heat of lockdown
Posted on 09 Jul, 2020 01:51 PMAkbarbhai (35), a Maldhari (semi-nomadic cattle herder) is struggling to survive as the lockdown to check the spread of coronavirus has hit demand of dairy products badly and led to prices crashing in Bhuj. He lives in Gandhinagari, an informal settlement in Bhuj that is home to around 30 cattle herders. His joint family of 15 members includes his two brothers and three sisters.
![Image: Homes in the City](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/bhid_naka_vatahan_12.jpg?itok=OufT1jbP)
Environmentalists voice concerns against the draft EIA notification 2020
Posted on 09 Jul, 2020 11:33 AMDraft EIA notification 2020 attracts criticism from experts
![Work in progress in coal mines in Jharsuguda (Image source: IWP Flickr album)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/dsc_0066etp_2.jpg?itok=vMGSErHi)
Flood batters Assam, over 16 lakh people hit
Posted on 09 Jul, 2020 11:30 AMFlood situation in Assam continues to remain grim
![Assam plaued by the annual flood menace (Image Source: Akash Basumatari)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/assam81.jpg?itok=eFHtRrAn)
Floods in Bihar: Helping government fight embankment breach
Posted on 08 Jul, 2020 10:01 PMEvery year, incessant rainfall during the monsoon causes floods in the state, with North Bihar being the worst affected.
![Ways in which the government can be informed about the embankment breach in your area (Image source: Water Resources Department, Government of Bihar, Twitter handle)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/lead_hellowrd_0.jpg?itok=LZfDPz22)
Surviving in uncertainty
Posted on 08 Jul, 2020 07:33 PMUncertainty - the pervasive feeling that all of us have been living with from the middle of March 2020. It's the same in our partner villages in Odisha and Jharkhand. Communities we work with have been facing and overcoming uncertainties all through their lives. But this time, the crisis has put unusual stress on their abilities to cope.
![Image: Ajaya Behera](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/akb_6198_credit_ajaya_behera.jpg?itok=3nFnAido)
Covid-19 and floods: A double whammy for Assam
Posted on 04 Jul, 2020 07:52 PMIt is an annual episode that plays itself out. Assam is, once again, reeling under flood – loss of human and animal life, severe damage to agricultural crops, property, millions of people displaced from their homes, absence of flood preparedness or early warning systems, delayed relief action by the government and the silent apathy of the mainstream media.
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Catering to the aspirations of frontline workers to ensure water security for rural India
Posted on 01 Jul, 2020 06:26 PMThe Covid-19 pandemic has reinforced the need to create jobs locally. This intersects with the water sector's need for local management. How do we create meaningful opportunities to address the aspirations of the local talent pool and make them discoverable?
![There is a significant demand for skilled human resources in the water sector (Image: Neil Palmer, IWMI Flickr Photos; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/water-quality-testing-ganges.jpg?itok=Aiqvu1Ep)
A reflection on multi-faceted droughts in Bundelkhand region
Posted on 01 Jul, 2020 03:10 PMDrought conditions are not new to Bundelkhand. The acute situation now is a convergence of three types of droughts – meteorological, agricultural and hydrological - cumulatively coinciding as witnessed in Nunagar village in Panna district, Madhya Pradesh. We saw hundreds of vessels queuing up at the panchayat well.
![Child walks through the parched field for kilometers to fetch water in peak summer in village Banjari (Image: Reshma Sahoo)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/pic1-bundelkhand.jpg?itok=D-pY0wZ3)