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The search for a shelter
Posted on 01 Feb, 2017 08:46 PMIn the last few decades, India has seen an increasing number of people migrating from rural areas to urban cities in search of work and better living. These migrants often get employed in the informal sector as construction workers, vendors, domestic servants, etc. They also live in informal settlements, generally known as slums.
![Residents struggle for a pot of drinking water at Bhuri Tekri, Indore.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/32115103622_290b08190b_n.jpg?itok=eSUDRcxG)
They said it!
Posted on 01 Feb, 2017 10:00 AMThe year 2016 was an abysmal year in terms of environmental policy and conservation in India.
![Ken river that flows through Panna Tiger Reserve. (Source: K Gagan, Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/ken-river-panna-tiger-resreve-k-gagan-wikimedia-commons_1.jpg?itok=tf4tYFmy)
NGT to hear PIL on Ganga clean-up
Posted on 30 Jan, 2017 04:40 PMNGT to hear petition on Ganga revival on a day-to-day basis
![Ganga near Gadmukteshwar (Source: IWP Flickr photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/6171494645_920f644b53_z_2.jpg?itok=9q0GH5sd)
Opposition to Teesta Stage IV hydel project
Posted on 30 Jan, 2017 04:20 PMPeople of Sikkim stand against Teesta hydel project
![The people of the northeast India protest against dams. (Source: SANDRP)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/dibang_hearing_boycott_1_march_12th_0_1.jpg?itok=ptnxzFo1)
What WatSan needs from budget
Posted on 26 Jan, 2017 08:20 AMAccording to a report by WaterAid, a water and sanitation nonprofit, released in 2016, India has the highest number (75.8 million) of people in the world without access to safe water.
![Drinking water source in a village at Kawardha, Chhattisgarh](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/drinking_water_source_in_kawardha_chhattisgarh_0.jpg?itok=K5cDxFQ7)
Call for Applications: Benefit Sharing in River Systems Capacity Building Programme
Posted on 25 Jan, 2017 03:32 PMLEAD India is pleased to announce a highly innovative regional leadership and capacity building programme for water professionals working with Civil Society Organisations (CSO's). The programme is focused on nurturing leadership for transboundary cooperation and related issues, both at community and regional levels.
Inform us about future hydel projects: Pakistan to India
Posted on 23 Jan, 2017 08:50 PMIndia should inform us about its future hydel projects: Pakistan
![Chenab river (Source: Wikipedia commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/chenab_river.jpg?itok=bqytFmfx)
No man's land
Posted on 18 Jan, 2017 09:39 PMFrom its rather benign origins connoting a type of land classification, the term poromboke has transformed into something grotesque over the years. This term had been in use since the Cholas denoting stretches of land reserved for shared communal use which cannot be bought or sold.
![The Ennore creek choked by fly ash. (Screen grab from the Chennai poromboke paadal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/poromboke2.png?itok=KbRRvrpb)
Acquired lands lay barren, SC questions states
Posted on 16 Jan, 2017 12:11 PMWhy are lands acquired from farmers barren? SC asks states
![Women farmers protest against land acquisition (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/sundari_protest_0.jpg?itok=f7pxz7Py)
TN suffers the worst north-east monsoon in 140 years
Posted on 16 Jan, 2017 11:50 AMTamil Nadu declares drought
![TN farmers in the midst of a crisis. (Source: IWP Flickr photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/farmer_7_0.jpg?itok=fr9zKLWm)