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July 2, 2024
From scarcity to sharing: How farmers are managing groundwater in Rayalaseema
Community governance for groundwater management
Jasmine on the fields as part of the groundwater collectivisation agreement at Kummara Vandla Palli village, Sri Satya Sai District. (Images: WASSAN/Swaran)
June 30, 2024
How Burhanpur became India's first Har Ghar Jal District
SHGs empower women, ensure sustainability: A model for water tax collection in Burhanpur
Rural water security (Image: Shawn, Save the Children USA; CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
January 7, 2024
Evolution of state's role in rural drinking water governance in India
Need to nudge state governments to evolve a detailed roadmap (planning, implementation and operations related strategies)—immediate, medium and long-term—for ensuring drinking water security.
Demand-responsive approach became the mainstay of the project with the initiation of sectoral reforms (Image: India Water Portal Flickr)
December 28, 2023
Creating scalable, sustainable agriculture programs
The report presents six case studies on how sustainable agriculture programmes scaled up in the past in India
A farmer uses a hosepipe to irrigate crops at her farm in the Nilgiris mountains, Tamil Nadu (Image: IWMI Flickr Photos; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 DEED)
December 19, 2023
Employment potential of India's Jal Jeevan Mission
This IIM Bangalore study highlights the spillover effects of public investments in rural water supply systems in the form of employment generation.
The employment structure under Jal Jeevan Mission encompasses both direct and indirect employment during construction and O&M phases. (Image: Wallpaperflare)
December 12, 2023
Insights from Atal Bhujal Yojana in Rajasthan
Learnings from India's Participatory Groundwater Management Programme
Launched in 2019, Atal Bhujal Yojana aims to mainstream community participation and inter-ministerial convergence in groundwater management. (Image: Picryl)
Sustainability lessons from an all-women’s team in Chennai
India’s first all-women waste management team from Chennai, through their unwavering commitment and dedication, are consistently achieving 90%-96% source segregation in their Zone.
Re Sustainability
Posted on 11 Mar, 2023 05:37 PM

Women are recognized for their contributions in various spheres during International Women's Day. Nonetheless, it is crucial to acknowledge the overlooked unsung heroes. Among them are the women conservancy and waste management workers who work tirelessly every day to keep our cities clean.
Women shaping the zero-waste cities of India (Image: ReSL)
Climate change is actively impeding the progress made across all SDGs: Reveals Dasra
Dasra announces the plan for Climate Action Alliance which will aim to bring together stakeholders across sectors with the vision to build resilient communities and systems
Dasra
Posted on 10 Mar, 2023 03:22 PM

Dasra, a strategic philanthropy organisation, during the 14th edition of Dasra Philanthropy Week organised at Godrej One, Vikhroli in Mumbai, introduced its vision to collaborate with various sector experts, funders, civil society organisations and institutions to form Climate Action alliance to enable intersectional climate action
Development goals on zero hunger, health, gender equality, sustainable cities, biodiversity and global partnership for sustainable development most affected by the climate change (Image: rawpixel.com/NASA)
Green jobs for women and a way to address climate change
A panel discussion was held by Climate Asia to address these issues
Climate Asia
Posted on 10 Mar, 2023 02:37 PM

On March 6, Climate Asia organized a panel discussion titled "Green Jobs for Women: A Path to Climate Solutions." The panel was designed to discuss aspects of the green jobs ecosystem for women and explore how it can contribute to addressing climate change.
Barefoot solar engineer Minakshi Diwan 20, tends to maintenance works in the solar village in Odisha (Image: Engineering for Change)
Centre in final stages of notifying emissions trading scheme
Policy matters this fortnight
Amita Bhaduri
Posted on 01 Mar, 2023 12:17 PM

Centre in final stages of notifying emissions trading scheme
Government plans to give energy efficiency targets to sectors (Image: RawPixel)
Getting to know the MGPNY status in project wards
A rapid dipstick survey of the Mukhya Mantri Gramin Peyjal Nishchay Yojana through frontline workers
Pritesh Kumar Lal
 Madhavi Purohit
Posted on 23 Feb, 2023 12:02 PM

AKRSP(I), Water For People and Arghyam have partnered on a project for the sustainable operation and maintenance of the drinking water supply schemes

Getting a quick sense of the status of O&M of the water supply schemes (Image: AKRSP(I))
Instruments to facilitate long-term lending critical for green transition
Long- term financing, restructuring of institutions needed to allow green finance to flow
The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
Posted on 23 Feb, 2023 10:17 AM

The 22nd edition of the annual flagship event of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)—the World Sustainable Development Summit (WSDS)—is being held from 22-24 February 2023 in New Delhi.
There is a need to reform the global financial system to achieve sustainable development (Image: MaxPixel)
Rivers and riverine communities of India: Water Talk Series 2022-23 by students of Water Policy and Governance, TISS
Focus on increasing the adaptability and resilience of these riverine communities.
Posted on 19 Feb, 2023 06:11 PM

The Water Talk Series started in 2017 at the Tata Institute of

Sustaining ward level water supply schemes in Bihar
Design principles for operation and maintenance at scale
Manu Srivastava
Umesh Desai
Vivek Sharan
Posted on 15 Feb, 2023 12:12 PM

Bihar pioneered water supply connections to every rural household under the Mukhya Mantri Gramin Peyjal Nishchay Yojana.
The programme intends to improve safe drinking water coverage in rural Bihar (Image: AKRSP(I))
Study reveals Indian dams to lose 26% water storage capacity by 2050
Annually, the globally averaged losses amount to approximately 0.36% of initial global storage capacity.
Duminda Perera
Spencer Williams
Vladimir Smakhtin
Posted on 08 Feb, 2023 05:13 PM

Reservoir sedimentation is often seen as a site-specific process and is usually assessed at an individual reservoir level. At the same time, it takes place everywhere in the world. However, estimates of storage losses globally are largely lacking.
Hirakud Dam is the longest dam in India (Image: India Water Portal)
Blue-green infrastructure solutions for resilient cities
A 10-city study on the impacts of urbanization on natural infrastructure in India
Sahana Goswami
Samrat Basak
Aakash Malik
Raj Bhagat Palanichamy
Posted on 23 Jan, 2023 06:57 PM

Urban development in all forms impacts the natural landscape, changing vegetation cover, infiltration rates and hydrological (surface and sub-surface) flows. With increasing urbanization urban areas lose a host of natural infrastructure and ecosystem services as ecosystems are modified, degraded and/ or shrunk.
Study indicates that blue-green spaces in core-city and peripheral areas are differentially impacted by the growing urban footprint (Image: Emmanuel Dyan)
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