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Rural Water
Making rural India water smart
Posted on 16 Mar, 2023 04:41 PMPoor management of water and over dependence on groundwater is making India a water stressed country, which can spell doom for agricultural productivity. How India manages and governs water will be important in the future. Adopting water smart attitudes and behaviours by rural communities is crucial. How can that be achieved? This book shows the way.
![Water smart attitudes to manage water demand in rural India (Image Source: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2023-03/Crop.jpg?itok=jX2Pb6sn)
Sustaining ward level water supply schemes in Bihar
Posted on 15 Feb, 2023 12:12 PMBihar pioneered water supply connections to every rural household under the Mukhya Mantri Gramin Peyjal Nishchay Yojana.
![The programme intends to improve safe drinking water coverage in rural Bihar (Image: AKRSP(I))](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2023-02/WhatsApp%20Image%202023-02-06%20at%2011.31.03%20AM.jpeg?itok=HQ2rkExs)
Budget 2023-24: Drinking water supply and sanitation continues to get priority
Posted on 07 Feb, 2023 01:38 PMSafe water, sanitation and hygiene are pillars that improve the quality of life and enhance the 'ease of living' of people, especially in rural areas. In this regard, the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation (DDWS) has made significant progress in providing drinking water and safe sanitation to rural households.
![An amount of Rs 1840 crore has been approved to effecvely implement Water Security Plans through convergence of ongoing/new schemes (Image: Pavitra K B Rao, Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2023-02/Save_water_save_light_and_save_earth.jpg?itok=9Mmcemnc)
Union Budget 2023-24: A detailed analysis with a water lens
Posted on 03 Feb, 2023 11:51 AMHaving its domain in agriculture and allied activities, rural development, drinking water and sanitation, energy and transportation sector, water resources are quite crucial for an economy of a state. A union budget other than making financial provisions, also tells us about the vision of a government.
![(Image: Utthan/India Water Portal Flickr)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2023-02/4034551042_fd456e94dc_o.jpg?itok=ryP02nHa)
Professionalizing Water Quality Management by empowered stakeholders
Posted on 29 Dec, 2022 07:12 PMJal Jeevan Mission (JJM) is an aspirational programme aiming to provide functional tap water connections to every household in rural India, ensuring access to adequate safe water.
![Water Quality Champions, in the making (Image Source: INREM Foundation)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2022-12/WQC2.jpg?itok=FW44GiZh)
Evaluating WaSH conditions spatially at the panchayat level
Posted on 15 Oct, 2022 03:38 PMRural areas largely lack access to improved drinking water-sanitation and hygiene (WaSH) facilities in India. Improved WaSH facilities are vital to prevent the transmission of waterborne diseases and create resilient communities.
![People in rural areas lack potable water, and use unsafe sanitation and hygiene facilities (Image: Sebastian Dahl)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp-images/wash.jpg?itok=OtTOH3zN)
Water conservation and NREGA in tribal areas of Madhya Pradesh
Posted on 10 Oct, 2022 09:58 PMOut of India’s total population of 1210.19 million, 104 million, i.e., 8.6% are tribal (Census, 2011), India has one of the highest diversity among the tribes in the world. Broadly tribal inhabit two distinct geographical areas – the Central Indian Tribal Belt and the North-East.
![The treatment must be on an area basis; both community and individual lands must be treated. (Image: AKRSP)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp-images/lead_1.jpg?itok=r2PGTPKw)
India's plastic ban fails to curb plastic pollution
Posted on 09 Oct, 2022 07:49 PMExperts call India’s single use plastic ban weak, argue that it targets the most vulnerable
![Plastic menace in Kufri, Himachal Pradesh (Image source: IWP Flickr photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp-images/25515633233_55bb9afb7c_k.jpg?itok=Aj0fptXo)
Disabled, elderly, and vulnerable will soon have easy access to piped water
Posted on 25 Aug, 2022 02:57 PMCentre releases draft guidelines of piped water supply for disabled, elderly and vulnerable groups
![A child having disability. Photo for representation only. (Image Source: IWP Flickr photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp-images/8070983790_0375624382_o.jpg?itok=vRMaROi1)
The missing frontline worker
Posted on 03 Aug, 2022 02:52 AMNobody on the frontline
There is a war going on. The generals are plotting. The armoury is ready. Lands are to be won. The people are all charged up. But there is one problem. Maybe it's a big one. There is nobody on the frontline.
![The frontline worker, a crucial but missing link in the water space (Image Source: Sunderrajan Krishnan)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2022-08/Missing.jpg?itok=aXrM23rO)