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Storage and Supply
Ganga clean-up programme has failed: IIT consortium
Posted on 04 Dec, 2016 08:31 PMGanga clean-up fails, thanks to multiple authorities and no monitoring
![Man searched for coins in polluted water of Ganga river at Allahabad (Source: IWP Flickr photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/2934020141_365e706489_z.jpg?itok=_gJaxFvb)
Twin lakes of Bhoj
Posted on 21 Nov, 2016 10:10 PMThe Bhoj wetland is situated in the heart of Bhopal district in Madhya Pradesh. The wetland consists of two man-made lakes--the upper lake and the lower lake.
![Raja Bhoj statue at the upper lake.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/_dsc0119tp1s.jpg?itok=KmSnJ-rd)
New paradigms in WASH service delivery: Roundtable discussion, IIT Madras
Posted on 16 Nov, 2016 10:06 AMAbout: IIT Madras will be conducting a round table discussion titled 'Emerging Paradigms in Water,Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) service delivery' on 23rd November, 2016
Angry, swirling waters
Posted on 07 Nov, 2016 09:55 PM“The gravity of the Kedarnath disaster in June 2013, which killed thousands of people, shocked the public almost to the point of numbness”... begins the forward by Bill Aitken in Hridayesh Joshi’s account of the disaster Rage of the river: The untold story of the Kedarnath disaster. It’s a sentence which will whirl in your mind while you read Joshi’s book.
![Gori floods (Source: Chicu Lokgariwar, India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/gori_floods_0_0.jpg?itok=_JV7wkqA)
Maha battle over water
Posted on 03 Nov, 2016 12:07 PMIt’s a battle that dates back to 1957. Two states of India--Madhya Pradesh (MP) and Odisha--have fought fiercely over the water of the Mahanadi they share. When Chhattisgarh was carved out of MP in 2000, it inherited both the Mahanadi and the conflict with Odisha over its water.
![Mahanadi river](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/dsc05648tps.jpg?itok=RqUC3Qns)
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)
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)
Interlinking project needs reanalysis: IIT Study
Posted on 16 Aug, 2016 09:53 AMNot enough water available for interlinking rivers: IIT study
![Interlinking of rivers (Source: NIH)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/interlinking1_0.jpg?itok=oK5Q7nxa)
Knowing Kamla’s sorrow could control Bihar floods
Posted on 08 Jun, 2016 07:41 PM“When I was a boy, a family and their livestock could feed on just one crop for three years,” says Jugal Mandal of Sakhwar village in Darbhanga district. “For the last five years though, the village fields have been fallow because we have not had water,” he adds.
![A young girl leads her buffaloes in search of water](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/searching_for_water.jpg?itok=L_wHaDjl)
Two states, a canal and a river
Posted on 17 May, 2016 11:21 AM‘Jat’ reservation and the rampage on a canal
![Munak canal to check seepage losses along the Western Yamuna Canal and to augment its supply](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/munak-clc1.jpg?itok=zfYuvxf_)