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Surface Water
Sunderbans and Siachen glacier to become trans-boundary protected area
Posted on 31 Aug, 2015 10:25 PMSunderbans and Siachen glacier proposed to be recognised as a trans-boundary protected area
![Farm fields in the Sunderbans (Source: India Water Portal Flickr Photo)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/3603694941_cd511a01ae_z.jpg?itok=WavujP-B)
India's groundwater: Invisible water, visible crisis
Posted on 31 Aug, 2015 06:13 PMMassive national effort needed to resolve India's depleting groundwater
![Water well in Purulia, West Bengal (Source: India Water Portal Flickr Photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/4483255321_b378863084_z.jpg?itok=qpxRCb3b)
Kaun kitne paani mein: Movie review
Posted on 28 Aug, 2015 06:45 PM‘Kitna shaant hai ye paani, aur iske liye yeh rajniti’ (the water is so still, yet there is politics around it).
![Water scarcity becomes a source of conflict between two villages (Source: Facebook)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/kaun_kitne_pani_mein_0.jpg?itok=tZpiY55L)
Training Programme on Introduction to SWAT by IIT Madras
Posted on 25 Aug, 2015 04:03 PMThe primary objective of this short term training program is to provide college teachers and professional engineers with a comprehensive understanding of GIS techniques relevant for studies related to water resources assessment.
The curious case of Kolkata's missing water bodies
Posted on 25 Aug, 2015 12:26 PMMohit Ray of Vasundhara has written two books--"Five Thousand Mirrors: The Water Bodies of Kolkata”
![Bhukailash - a water body in Kolkata; Image: Mohit Ray](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/bhukailash1.jpg?itok=LRgETpZh)
Europe's Rhine river inspires the Ganga revival
Posted on 24 Aug, 2015 09:13 PMGanga clean-up takes its inspiration from the Rhine river
![Ganga river at Varanasi (Source: India Water Portal Flickr Photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/9416529216_7b33145664_z_2_0.jpg?itok=4V81s_cE)
People in Kinnaur are making all efforts to stop further destruction'
Posted on 24 Aug, 2015 01:01 PMAround 21 major hydropower projects are proposed in the upper Satluj catchment area of Himachal Pradesh. In 2013, The Environics Trust collaborated with Himalaya Niti Abhiyan to assess the impact of these projects on the people and ecology of the geographically-fragile Kinnaur region.
![At Pangi village, several houses have suffered damage due to a hydel project.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/kinnaur_2.jpg?itok=lFT9hhEP)
Catching rain in the land of "too much water"
Posted on 23 Aug, 2015 08:16 PMEven in the remotest village of Assam, you would often find one saying ‘paanir nisina daam’ (meaning as cheap as water) or ‘paanir nisina xorol’ (as simple as water) over a good bargain or an easy task. Water is, almost always, associated with simplicity and abundance.
But those were the good old days.
![Children drinking rainwater collected in tanks at Melamati Government Junior Basic School, Jorhat (Assam).](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/rainwater_harvesting_tank.jpg?itok=YH_3r9q9)
Half of India's interstate rivers plagued by pollution and poor water quality
Posted on 23 Aug, 2015 03:42 PMAccording to a recent study by the Central Pollution and Control Board (CPCB), almost half of India's
![The Krishna river, Wai, Maharashtra](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/krishna_river_0.jpg?itok=PlzTOAP6)
Mithi: Recounting a river’s apathetic journey
Posted on 22 Aug, 2015 05:45 PMFor Kaleshwari Yadav, a resident of Morarji Nagar slums in Mumbai, rain is not her biggest worry; it is the lack of it. Residing adjacent to the Mithi (meaning sweet in Hindi) river, she says when it doesn’t rain, the stagnated river becomes a breeding ground of deadly mosquito vectors of diseases such as malaria and dengue fever.
![Household waste entering Mithi in the slums of Bhim Nagar](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/image_4_1.jpg?itok=Q4By8fES)