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Society, Culture, Religion and History
Can Budget 2016-17 breathe life into the public health system?
Posted on 15 Feb, 2016 11:00 AMPer a report by the Planning Commission, India’s burden of water borne diseases remains grossly underestimated. The improvements in access to drinking water has not been matched by a proportionate decline in deaths and illnesses from waterborne diseases.
![Measuring for malnutrition in Madhya Pradesh (Source: Russell Watkins, Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/measuring_for_malnutrition_in_madhya_pradesh-russell-watkins-dfid-2013-wikimedia-commons_0.jpg?itok=Z6NK8cVv)
Mumbai's ticking methane bomb: The Deonar dump yard
Posted on 08 Feb, 2016 09:47 AM![](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/1200x-1.jpg?itok=esMJf4F9)
Gender and water use: Looking beyond pure data
Posted on 05 Feb, 2016 12:36 PMGrowth and development indicators at the policy level many a times demand the need for factual data that is often standardised and expressed as numbers in order to make each local context comparable to other and allow data to be aggregated to higher geographical scales.
![Gender and water use (Source: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/gender_and_water.jpg?itok=35AKXHmW)
Echoes of Bhakra
Posted on 01 Feb, 2016 04:28 PMBhakra dam was the first hydropower project of independent India. Though it brought electricity and water to vast areas, the people displaced in the Bilaspur area of Himachal Pradesh remain dissatisfied. Many of them were not adequately compensated, and began living and farming in the adjoining forests. They were allowed to stay put--unofficially--by the administration.
![Bhakra dam (Source: Apar Singh Bataan, Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/bhakra_dam_bilaspur.jpg?itok=d_BvDd3U)
Water and sanitation sector needs a budget push
Posted on 30 Jan, 2016 12:56 PMWhile the WatSan sector has been prioritised in the country’s policy agenda through the launch of the Swachh Bharat Mission, last year’s budgetary outlay was way below desired levels.
![Handwashing at a Karnataka school](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/handwashing_in_a_karnataka_school_0.jpg?itok=DFnpKoyP)
Manual scavengers' deaths raise questions about the accuracy of Tamil Nadu government's data
Posted on 25 Jan, 2016 11:21 PM![](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/TH-DRAINAGE_2210670f.jpg?itok=JeXppTXC)
Alarm bells ring for Delhi’s groundwater
Posted on 25 Jan, 2016 01:19 PMDelhi, home to 16.75 million people, is in the grip of a major water crisis. Statistics by the Delhi Jal Board for the year 2011 suggest that the water deficit stands at about 250 million gallons per day with the supply being 830 million gallons per day.
![Residents say they are forced to flout the groundwater extraction norms with illegal groundwater pumps in Narela in North-west Delhi due to insufficient and poor quality of water supplied.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/residents.jpg?itok=KvYNHZMG)
Can recurring droughts in Maharashtra be offset by participatory groundwater management (PGWM)?
Posted on 20 Jan, 2016 09:02 AMMaharashtra is the fourth state following Karnataka, Chattisgarh, and Madhya Pradesh to seek out relief from the Union government thanks to more than 15,000 of its villages across Marathwada and parts of Western Maharashtra reeling under drought in 2015 [1].
![The role of PGWM to deal with droughts in Maharashtra (Source: IWP Flickr photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/20150902_100418.jpg?itok=sjoH-2S3)
Chennai residents can now avail a subsidy of Rs. 8000 to construct toilets
Posted on 18 Jan, 2016 09:50 PM![](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/9066013322_dc96b4d003_z_2.jpg?itok=kO9GPktQ)
Lessons on ecology from the Apatani tribe in Ziro Valley
Posted on 17 Jan, 2016 03:42 PMZiro Valley, which figures in the tentative list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites as a unique cultural landscape, sits at a height of 5600 feet in Arunachal Pradesh. It is inhabited by the Apatani tribe who are completely confined to the valley.
![Rice fields at Ziro valley with sacred groves in the backdrop](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/csc_0161.jpg?itok=ysJM09xl)