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Sustainability
State does a Nero while Kharun weeps
Posted on 18 Jul, 2016 09:30 AMAt sunrise, everything is luminous but not clear.
― Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
![Kharun river at Mahadev Ghat, Raipur.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/28024898401_fcdb4f002b_z.jpg?itok=hcVm6OPz)
Climate change: When past presents itself
Posted on 24 Jun, 2016 08:40 PMSummers get hotter, rains decline and crops fail. The conflict between people increase and migration in search of better lands and skies begin. Sounds familiar? We are not talking about Marathwada here. This is how the lives of our ancestors played out thousands of years ago.
![A narrow lane flanked by houses at Bhirrana. Source: Archaeological Survey of India](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/hakra1.jpg?itok=-dtnP4xF)
A river comes to people
Posted on 13 Jun, 2016 08:28 PMGajanand Sharma is excited about the monsoon this year. He is building an anicut on the small stream that runs through his farm. “After the rain, the land will be filled with water and then I will sow wheat and reap record production in this area,” he prophesises. This forecast doesn’t come from his knowledge of astrology, but that of geology, gained over the years.
![A temple and a small pond at the origin of Nanduwali.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/new_1.jpg?itok=z39XAlQE)
Simhastha leaves farmers fuming
Posted on 12 Jun, 2016 07:38 PMRamesh Mali, a farmer in his late thirties, looks at his farmland nervously. It has been 13 days since the Simhastha Maha Kumbh festival, 2016, concluded. The district administration had acquired his four bigha land (approximately 0.64 hectares) for the festival. The barricades and the concrete left on his land give us the idea that the land is not fit for farming this season.
![Kshipra at Mangalnath Ghat, Ujjain](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/_dsc0285es.jpg?itok=t5zxZWcE)
Comics for Change
Posted on 10 Jun, 2016 04:42 PM“The earth, the air, the land and the water are not an inheritance from our forefathers but on loan from our children. So we have to hand over to them at least as it was handed over to us.” This famous quote of Mahatma Gandhi aptly forms the basis of today’s ever-growing focus on sustainable development and inclusive growth.
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At Simhastha, govt fishes in Kshipra’s troubled waters
Posted on 05 Jun, 2016 07:05 AMThe Madhya Simhastha Maha Kumbh festival, the religious extravaganza that happens once in every 12 years, was held in Ujjain from April 22-May 21, 2016.
![Kshipra before Shahi Snan](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/_dsc0220es.jpg?itok=IOXdBOPj)
Subarnarekha is dying. Who’s responsible?
Posted on 28 May, 2016 05:46 PMIt would not be an exaggeration to say Subarnarekha (Line of gold) is a film that left an indelible mark on Indian cinema. The film, by Ritwik Ghatak, is inspired by a river by the same name and narrates the reality around the river which flows through the present day Jharkhand, West Bengal and Odisha, before draining into the Bay of Bengal.
![India’s steel city dumps its waste into Subarnarekha, the river of gold](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/subarnarekha-mango.jpg?itok=A1X24JKt)
Two states, a canal and a river
Posted on 17 May, 2016 11:21 AM‘Jat’ reservation and the rampage on a canal
![Munak canal to check seepage losses along the Western Yamuna Canal and to augment its supply](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/munak-clc1.jpg?itok=zfYuvxf_)
Call for abstract for the 19th International Riversymposium, New Delhi
Posted on 28 Apr, 2016 06:15 PMThe International RiverFoundation is looking for new ideas, research and developments in rivers, water and environment for its 19th International Riversymposium to be held in New Delhi from 12-14 September, 2016.
The topics for 2016 are:
Government schemes converge at Sarda Panchayat in Sambalpur, Odisha
Posted on 24 Apr, 2016 11:41 AMSince India became independent in 1947, the central and state governments have introduced various rural development schemes, and have been trying to get them to converge. While this effort hasn't been as impactful on a large scale, there are some success stories. Sarda Panchayat in Sambalpur, Odisha is one.
![View of Sarda village, Odisha](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/_dsc0025tps.jpg?itok=wj_eoczI)