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Urban Water
Haryana launches Integrated Water Resources Action Plan
Posted on 18 Jun, 2023 10:31 AMHaryana launches Integrated Water Resources Action Plan
![Continuous efforts are needed to reduce water consumption by adopting water conservation methods (Image: Sunil Kumar, CC-BY-3.0, Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2023-06/1200px-Dharauli%2C_Haryana_124109%2C_India_-_panoramio.jpg?itok=45GflfGT)
Cities urgently need to step up climate action
Posted on 22 Apr, 2023 10:26 AMMore than 50% of the world's population lives in cities, which also account for 70% of all CO2 emissions. They are also disproportionately vulnerable to the effects of climate change.
![Cities continue to face daunting capacity constraints as they pursue urgently needed climate action (Image: Nimit Nagpal, Wikipedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2023-04/India%27s_largest_city_and_financial_capital%2C_Mumbai.jpg?itok=u4FdO8dj)
Budget 2023-24: Drinking water supply and sanitation continues to get priority
Posted on 07 Feb, 2023 01:38 PMSafe water, sanitation and hygiene are pillars that improve the quality of life and enhance the 'ease of living' of people, especially in rural areas. In this regard, the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation (DDWS) has made significant progress in providing drinking water and safe sanitation to rural households.
![An amount of Rs 1840 crore has been approved to effecvely implement Water Security Plans through convergence of ongoing/new schemes (Image: Pavitra K B Rao, Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2023-02/Save_water_save_light_and_save_earth.jpg?itok=9Mmcemnc)
Blue-green infrastructure solutions for resilient cities
Posted on 23 Jan, 2023 06:57 PMUrban 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)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2023-01/Law_Garden%2C_Ahmedabad.jpg?itok=FU0wz8XM)
Best practices for flood resilient cities
Posted on 21 Dec, 2022 02:18 PMResilience of cities depends on effective functioning of complex infrastructure networks such as water, energy, sanitation, transport along with physical infrastructure such as housing, hospitals and educational institutions.
![East Kolkata Wetland (Image: Dibyendu Ash; Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp-images/640px-Little_Grebe_Tachybaptus_ruficollis_East_Kolkata_Wetland_West_Bengal_India_12.07.2012.jpg?itok=bnAAdE1p)
Decentralised urban water management in Chhattisgarh
Posted on 06 Nov, 2022 01:39 PMOver the past few years, it has become increasingly clear that centralised urban water management in this country is in deep crisis. Water supply is both inadequate and extremely costly, water harvesting and recharging and used water treatment and reuse are mostly absent and storm water management is a disaster.
![People are struggling to get the quantity and quality of water in urban areas (Image: Makarand Purohit)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp-images/struggle-for-a-pot-of-drinking-water-at-bhuri-tekri-indore_32115103622_o.jpg?itok=SEBVIIpN)
Evaluating WaSH conditions spatially at the panchayat level
Posted on 15 Oct, 2022 03:38 PMRural areas largely lack access to improved drinking water-sanitation and hygiene (WaSH) facilities in India. Improved WaSH facilities are vital to prevent the transmission of waterborne diseases and create resilient communities.
![People in rural areas lack potable water, and use unsafe sanitation and hygiene facilities (Image: Sebastian Dahl)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp-images/wash.jpg?itok=OtTOH3zN)
Climate predictions and tipping points
Posted on 05 Oct, 2022 10:22 PMLevels of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2 O) continue to rise.
![Cities – responsible for up to 70% of human-caused emissions – will face increasing climate impacts (Image: cocoparisienne, Pixabay)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp-images/climate.jpg?itok=1LOYIZeJ)
Chaos in a concrete jungle
Posted on 13 Sep, 2022 06:32 PMBengaluru, once a city of lakes - is in crisis.
![Urban flooding in Bangalore (Image Source: Thejas via Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp-images/Bangalore%20floods.jpg?itok=k0hSqiqE)