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Water for All & Other Poems: Poetry with a purpose
Posted on 06 Mar, 2015 05:06 PMAn engineer or an ecologist talking about water may not cause many heads to turn, but when they do it through poetry, there is a chance that more people will take notice.
![Water for all and other Poems](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/poem_water.png?itok=iQoUknnS)
Are there solutions to epidemics from water-borne diseases?
Posted on 02 Mar, 2015 10:06 PMBetween May and December 2014, 17 deaths were registered in Sambalpur due to jaundice but residents say that the death toll due to water-borne diseases is much more than that. In January 2015, the Odisha High Court issued a notice to the state government asking it to furnish details on the steps taken to check the Jaundice outbreak in Sambalpur.
What is Jaundice?
![Polluted water in Sambalpur, Odisha](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/_dsc0014.jpg?itok=kPzZmURh)
Budget cuts for Water and Environment Ministry
Posted on 02 Mar, 2015 09:29 PMUnion Budget 2015-16 reduces funds for Water and Environment Ministry
![Budget allocation and planning](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/8357660968_0b10ac746b_z.jpg?itok=6y4ksSl9)
Coliform contamination and cholera: Deciphering the connection
Posted on 02 Mar, 2015 05:34 PMVibrio cholerae is responsible for 100,000 -120,000 deaths annually, worldwide. [1] Commonly found in ponds, rivers and brackish areas, the bacterium finds its way into humans through contaminated food and water. And the result?
![Water contaminated with plastics and more](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/pond_contaminated.jpg?itok=uBrSU-FE)
Embankments: Engineering solutions or problems?
Posted on 02 Mar, 2015 05:12 PMMahananda, a major River of north Bihar rises in the Darjeeling district of West Bengal. It meets the Ganga after a journey of 376 km through the flat lands of Bihar, West Bengal and Bangladesh. It would spill its banks because of the flat slopes, causing deluge and waterlogging in the Katihar district of Bihar.
![Floods in Bihar; Image: Usha Dewani](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/floods-bihar.jpg?itok=vHHpqWvW)
Invitation to the International Symposium on 'Glaciology in High Mountain Asia', International Glaciological Society and ICIMOD, Kathmandu, Nepal
Posted on 27 Feb, 2015 08:06 PM- Past, present, and future glacier change (reconstructions, observations, projections)
- Observations and models of glacier dynamics (including glacier response times, and thickness and volume of ice)
- Glacier and snow melt processes (debris cover, supraglacial
Environment Ministry lied to Supreme Court about the Uttarakhand dam report
Posted on 24 Feb, 2015 11:08 AMCentre presents an opposite picture in the Uttarakhand dam case
![Ganga at Kaudiyala](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/6172023818_988b81c090_b_0.jpg?itok=BhlLZ0Or)
Karnataka government exposed on Yettinahole project
Posted on 24 Feb, 2015 10:40 AMYettinahole project called a drinking water project only to circumvent guidelines
![River Netravathi (Source: SANDRP)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/dsc03688.jpg?itok=NO7LpyyH)
Lake Alive: The Puttenahalli Kere Habba 2015
Posted on 23 Feb, 2015 09:09 PM![Pied kingfishers squabbling for the catch](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/pied_kingfishers_squabbling_for_the_catch_0.jpg?itok=1joT5rEK)
The pond with a purpose
Posted on 21 Feb, 2015 06:02 PMThe Bhuiyas, a group of people who belong to the Scheduled Castes in Jharkhand and Bihar, have historically been landless foragers -- a fact reflected in their name which means 'of the earth'.
![Celebrating the pond at Gobaria](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/promila_pathak_and_villagers.jpg?itok=gdRHqXBP)