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Rural Water
Monsoon experiences a countrywide deficit of 10 percent in July
Posted on 12 Aug, 2020 08:27 AMMonsoon 2020: Countrywide deficit of 10 percent in July; September may have heavy rains
![July experiences rain deficit of 10 percent (Source: IWP Flickr photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/5074883626_33da0b2985_z_0_0.jpg?itok=0wiNPoII)
Banking on rainwater harvesting
Posted on 11 Aug, 2020 10:27 AMNational Water Mission’s (NWM) has launched a campaign ‘Catch the rain’ on a pan India basis to nudge the states and stakeholders to create appropriate rainwater harvesting structures (RWHS) suitable to the climatic conditions and sub-soil strata before the onset of monsoon.
![As a part of the campaign, work is being done on various interventions such as water for productive use, improving irrigation practices, creating water recharge structures (Image: Pikist)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/rain-river-lake-landscape-reflection-trees-weather.jpg?itok=AtNNMf1F)
Understanding Atal Bhujal Yojana through the program guidelines
Posted on 10 Aug, 2020 03:59 PMGroundwater fulfills the drinking water requirements of nearly 85% and 50% of the rural and urban Indian population, respectively. 65% of the total irrigated area utilizes groundwater. It also caters to the water needs of the industrial sector in India.
![Community participation is expected to facilitate bottom-up groundwater planning process to improve the effectiveness of public financing and align implementation of various government programs on groundwater in the participating states (Image: Water Alternatives, Flickr Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/groundwater_4.jpg?itok=HkdNjORG)
Bihar floods: 'Living on 2.5 Kg flattened rice’
Posted on 10 Aug, 2020 03:55 PMTwo weeks ago, the Kanakai River flowing through Kishanganj rendered dozens of families homeless. While the people in the region are staying under plastic sheds, the government has turned a blind eye to their plight.
Mohammadin is also one of them. He tells the India Water Portal,
![Locals engaged in repair of broken embankment in Darbhanga (Source: Umesh Kumar Ray)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/img-20200801-wa0010.jpg?itok=xn2N6Bf9)
Floods in Bihar: Pregnant woman reaches hospital in a tube boat
Posted on 03 Aug, 2020 01:23 PMFlood havoc continues to increase in Bihar. Until recently, the effect of flood was only in eight districts across the state but now it has spread to ten districts.
![Pregnant woman goes to hospital in flood in a jugaad boat (Source: Umesh K Ray)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/article1.jpg?itok=iaVk4Lfq)
Affected by floods, locals resort to chowkis for safety
Posted on 29 Jul, 2020 05:35 PMFlood waters inundated the house of Ramchandra Yadav, a resident of Khoknaha village of Supaul, for three days. During these days he cooked food by setting up a brigade on the outpost and spent nights at the same post.
![Children taking water from a submerged handpump (Image source: Prabhat Khabar)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/img-20200721-wa0046.jpg?itok=1Dh1pXm6)
Bihar and northeast India reel under floods, Assam worst hit
Posted on 23 Jul, 2020 09:26 AMFlood batters three northeast states, Assam worst affected
![People take a boat to cross the flood-ravaged Brahmaputra (Source: IWP Flickr photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/11798489896_4f25d0c9d7_z_0_0.jpg?itok=KECDRlFh)
Nearly three lakh people across eight districts affected by floods in Bihar
Posted on 22 Jul, 2020 03:48 PMThe annual floods that wreak havoc in Bihar have knocked the state this year as well. So far, the flood waters have entered 150 panchayats of 30 blocks across eight districts, namely Sitamarhi, Shivhar, Supaul, Kishanganj, Darbhanga, Muzaffarpur, Gopalganj and East Champaran .
An official of Bihar's Disaster Management Department said,
![Life submerged within the embankment area (Source: India Water Portal Hindi)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/img-20200718-wa0007.jpg?itok=dOkX7Jbo)
Kamla, Kosi and Bagmati rivers in rage, disrupt life
Posted on 15 Jul, 2020 07:58 PMDue to intermittent rains in the Terai region of Bihar and Nepal, the water level of Mahananda, Kosi, Kamla and Bagmati rivers of North Bihar is continuously increasing and flood conditions have started to build in the region.
![Locals provide aid to people hit by floods in Bihar](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/flooding_rivers.jpg?itok=p-2n5Y6Q)
Floods in Bihar: Government prepares to shift people to safer places
Posted on 15 Jul, 2020 07:51 PMDue to incessant rains, many rivers in Bihar are in spate and there is a situation of floods in the state. Meanwhile, the Meteorological Department has forecasted heavy rains for the next two-three days, which may worsen the situation.
Heavy rains predicted
![Children drinking milk at a flood relief centre in Bihar (Source: Bhartiya Jan Utthan Parishad)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/relief_lead.png?itok=ohcWQg26)