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Surface Water
Floods to cost $215 billion per year in South Asia by 2030
Posted on 19 Sep, 2017 08:10 PMA whopping $215 billion is lost to floods each year
![A woman wades through a flooded road. (Source: IWP Flickr photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/3583138166_5e167c6271_z_0.jpg?itok=_voo5S-N)
A fishing holiday for marine health
Posted on 15 Sep, 2017 02:29 PM"The world has enough for everyone's needs, but not enough for everyone's greed”--Mahatma Gandhi
![A fisherman shows juvenile fishes. (Source: India water portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/27956602260_71e6380ede_z.jpg?itok=um5j-fgs)
Wetlands wait to be saved
Posted on 14 Sep, 2017 10:52 AMIn the afternoons these days, Basai wears a deserted look. Known as a bird’s delight and privileged by the protected status of a national park, the wetland is located just eight kilometres from Sultanpur bird sanctuary in Gurugram in Haryana. No birds can be spotted foraging the soil of the Basai wetland or its waters.
![Sun sets on a water body inside Keoladeo National Park. (Image: Swati Sidhu, Wikimedia Commons CC-BY-SA-4.0)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/sunset_on_a_waterbody1_0.jpg?itok=v_5S_YXR)
Maharashtra gets Rs 60,000 crore for river interlinking
Posted on 13 Sep, 2017 06:34 AMCentre allocates Maharashtra Rs 60,000 crore to link its rivers
![A map shows how rivers would be interlinked. (Source: NIH)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/interlinking1_0_0.jpg?itok=SR2ezSF2)
Floods take a heavy toll on Assam farmlands
Posted on 13 Sep, 2017 06:04 AMAssam bears huge agricultural loss from floods
![A man wades through knee-deep water with his belongings during the flood. (Source: 101Reporters)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/img_0470_0.jpg?itok=4t1Eb69R)
India gets new water resources minister
Posted on 05 Sep, 2017 09:10 PMNitin Gadkari takes charge of water resources and Ganga rejuvenation
![Yamuna river in Delhi (Source: Sudhanshu Malhotra via IWP Flickr Photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/2935403870_3529afab93_z_0_0.jpg?itok=EBrps2JE)
Small Himalayan glaciers more sensitive to climate change
Posted on 04 Sep, 2017 08:36 PMGlaciers in the Himalayas, which store large amounts of water in the form of glacial ice, have an intricate relationship with climate change. A new study in an important basin in the Indian Himalayas shows that low-altitude glaciers are more sensitive to climate change and have lost a significant amount of water in the past three decades.
![A view of the Himalayas. (Source: IWP Flickr photos--photo for representation purpose only)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/11446516223_0cd23d50dd_z.jpg?itok=LAg4nw90)
Let the river flow
Posted on 04 Sep, 2017 05:08 AMOne of the tributaries of the Yamuna, the Ken, is a major river of the Bundelkhand region of central India and flows through two states, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. River Ken regulates groundwater recharge and provides vegetation found on its banks.
![Ken river gorge (Source: By Syed Zohaibullah, www.commons.wikimedia.org)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/640px-gorge_carved_by_ken_river.jpg?itok=oUOhVuzD)
Pancheshwar dam public hearing continues
Posted on 30 Aug, 2017 05:56 AMPublic hearing for Pancheshwar dam continues while ignoring people's concern
![We don't want dams, dams destroy mountains,' reads a slogan painted on a wall in Uttarakhand (Image Source: GJ Lingaraj)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/a_protest_message_against_tehri_dam_garhwal_uttarakhand_0_0.jpg?itok=Ulx575Fz)
Every state needs a river rejuvenation policy'
Posted on 28 Aug, 2017 05:53 PMAs India celebrates 70 years of independence, the recent flooding in states like Assam and Gujarat and droughts in places like Tamil Nadu and Marathwada remind us that we still need to go far to achieve independence from water woes.
![Conservation is the way out of water crisis. (Source: IWP Flickr photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/8335960183_0f9fa452bf_z.jpg?itok=ga_9iTFv)