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Delhi residents to be charged an 'environmental compensation fee'
Posted on 05 Aug, 2015 09:25 AMCharge fees, use funds to clean Yamuna: NGT
![Bid to clean Yamuna through 'environment compensation fee' (Source: Wikipedia)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/oshiwara_river.jpg?itok=ZK9QS8SJ)
India set to become water scarce in 10 years
Posted on 04 Aug, 2015 10:20 PMIndia set to become water scarce in 10 years time: Govt tells Parliament
![Water scarcity: A reality in 2025? (Source: Wikipedia)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/4415664247_4129da70ec_o.jpg?itok=QwXO0pkA)
Shivaji and Sardar Vallabhai Patel: Bigger than their proposed statues
Posted on 31 Jul, 2015 09:05 AMWhat do these two iconic figures -- Shivaji, the great Maratha leader and Sardar Vallabhai Patel, the ‘Iron Man of India’ -- have most in common? While one might think that it was their fight for the freedom of their motherland, albeit at different times, that is not all.
![Shivaji & Sardar Patel to be immortalised as statues (Source: Wikipedia & www.statueofunity.in)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/doit.png?itok=awjIm97b)
Call for Research Associate, Forum for Policy Dialogue on Water Conflicts in India
Posted on 29 Jul, 2015 01:02 PMPresent focus of Forum’s work
The invasion of Kinnaur, Himachal Pradesh
Posted on 28 Jul, 2015 07:02 PMHydropower development has been given topmost priority in the resource rich state of Himachal Pradesh.
![100 MW Tidong-I project, Kinnaur HP](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/kinnaur_1.jpg?itok=nLC-JGwH)
Water and the Missile Man
Posted on 28 Jul, 2015 01:32 PMDr. Kalam is no more but he lives on in the hearts of many through his quotes, beliefs, speeches and his acclaimed book India 2020: A Vision for the New Millenium among many others.
![The late APJ Abdul Kalam at the International Book Fair, Trivandrum, 2014](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/apj_abdul_kalam.jpg?itok=PWL1zKFL)
CPCB fails to tackle rising river pollution: Report
Posted on 28 Jul, 2015 09:22 AMIn the last 26 years, polluted river stretches rise from 22 to over 300
![Polluted Yamuna river in Agra](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/2449965048_3684c8f1bb_z_1.jpg?itok=sYGMMlqz)
Do not rush through with TSR committee's proposals on green laws: Parliamentary Panel
Posted on 28 Jul, 2015 08:55 AMPanel suggests that the Govt not rush through with changes in green laws
![Ufrenkhal forest that gives water to Gad Ganga](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/8687248323_8b1fa08bd3_z_0_0.jpg?itok=s0DJx3dT)
Flawed embankment strategy converts Bihar into a watery grave
Posted on 27 Jul, 2015 02:31 PMDr. Dinesh Kumar Mishra of Barh Mukti Abhiyaan, an authority on the river network of North Bihar speaks to India Water Portal about the flood problems, the skewed flood control policy of the Government, the Kosi breach of 2008 and the gargantuan interlinking of rivers project.
![Floods in Bihar (Source: Usha Dewani, IWP)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/floods-bihar_1.jpg?itok=_xEsB1C0)
90% of malarial deaths happen in rural India
Posted on 24 Jul, 2015 07:07 AMStagnant puddles, which are a breeding ground for mosquitoes, follow the rains every year causing an increase in the incidence of water-borne diseases. Malaria is the third most common of these diseases in India after diarrhoea and typhoid.
![An Anopheles stephensi mosquito feasting (Source: Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/1200px-anopheles_stephensi.jpeg?itok=Uj6bpt-L)