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Sustainability
Dealing with droughts
Posted on 13 Dec, 2018 04:20 PMDroughts are one of the most feared natural calamities in India impacting food production, the economy as well as the morale of millions of farmers in a cou
![Droughts are predicted to rise in India (Image Source: Gaurav Bhosale via Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2023-08/DRoughts1.jpg?itok=38lJPGBs)
A future without water?
Posted on 11 Dec, 2018 01:17 PMSikri is a small village that lies 65 km north-west of Bharatpur on the Alwar road. The village used to depend on a traditional irrigation system that assured water throughout the year. A local saying related to the water availability at Sikri goes thus: Lakh daal le chittri, jay rahoongi Sikri (You may put lakhs of fetters to stop it, but the waters will still reach Sikri).
![An off-taking canal that promoted flow irrigation. The system has become a relic of the past. There is a demand to revive this colonial irrigation system whose bund is over 17-km long and has 28 distributaries. (Image: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/lead-bharatpur.jpg?itok=uQBTRow7)
Human activities reduce catchments’ climate resilience
Posted on 10 Dec, 2018 01:04 PMThe impact of global warming on the hydrological cycle should be of paramount concern to all because global warming affects rainfall patterns in various ways like triggering more extreme rainfall events. Unpredictable changes in runoff make it difficult to plan infrastructure to manage water resources such as dams.
![River Krishna at Wai, Maharashtra (Image Source: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/krishna_river_0_1.jpg?itok=PtcIKHtS)
The tragic tale of Erai
Posted on 30 Nov, 2018 10:56 AMThe Erai river, the main tributary of the Wardha river, is the lifeline for the people of Chandrapur in Maharashtra. It primarily supplies water to the Chandrapur city and Chandrapur super thermal power station (CSTPS). Since 1984, after the initiation of operations of M/s CSTPS and Western Coalfields Limited (WCL), the river has begun to get polluted and is now gasping for breath.
![The Erai river (Source: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/_dsc0203s_0.jpg?itok=ifWixFO2)
Two states and a river: More power or more water?
Posted on 25 Nov, 2018 12:26 PMA new study, Mahanadi: Coal Rich, Water-Stressed sheds light on how both Odisha and Chhattisgarh have locked horns over the distribution of waters of the Mahanadi river. The 851-km-long river originates in the Dhamtari district of Chhattisgarh, flows through the state and then Odisha before joining the Bay of Bengal at Odisha’s coast.
![The Hirakud dam (Image: Makarand Purohit, India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/mahanadi.jpg?itok=Ma4jlC1T)
Bengaluru drinks poisoned water
Posted on 22 Nov, 2018 11:17 AMIndia is running out of water fast. As if this is not bad news enough, it has been found that even the available water is highly polluted with organic and hazardous pollutants.
![Poor drinking water quality can pose a risk to health. (Image Source: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/drinking_water1_0.jpg?itok=2HWKSyIK)
SAFE solution to Kalikapur's water problem
Posted on 15 Nov, 2018 09:54 AMBasanti Haldar (45) has been living in a slum at Kalikapur in Kolkata for over two decades. She works as a domestic help in an upscale locality in the neighbourhood. She is happy nowadays due to an increase in her income.
![Nila Shaw collects water from the ADU. (Photo by Gurvinder Singh)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/rsz_nila_shaw_doesnt_have_to_walk_for_over_a_kilometer_to_collect_water_after_the_installation_of_adu.jpg?itok=MwTRMeyh)
Vidarbha farmer's date with success
Posted on 30 Oct, 2018 10:12 AMIn a drought-prone region like Vidarbha in Maharashtra, mostly in the news for water scarcity and farmer suicide, it is not every day that you hear the success story of a farmer. That's why the story of Savi Thangavel, 69, a resident of Mohegaon village which is just 22 km from Nagpur, is special.
![Thangavel date farm (Source: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/thangavel_farm-s.jpg?itok=e8UgdBlM)
NRDWP: Poor show by Odisha
Posted on 25 Oct, 2018 11:01 AMOn March 16, 2017, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India began a performance audit of the National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP) by discussing with the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation the scope and methodology of the performance audit.
![The implementation of the rural drinking water programme in Odisha has many deficiencies. (Photo: IWP flickr photo)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/20324006969_0ece5bfd24_z_1.jpg?itok=qeEmk4bW)
State of drinking water supply schemes in Rajasthan
Posted on 11 Oct, 2018 11:24 AMOn March 16, 2017, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India began a performance audit of the National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP) by discussing with the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation the scope and methodology of the performance audit. Records relating to the implementation of the programme in 27 states for the five-year period (2012 to 2017) were examined.
![Water schemes are not planned properly affecting their performance in Rajasthan. (Photo: IWP flickr photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/2553625235_27035761ed_o_0.jpg?itok=vbKHKpC6)