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Disappearing waters of The Himalayas
Posted on 14 May, 2018 12:01 PMDelhi’s Jor Bagh metro station is the site of an ongoing photographic exhibition with thought-provoking images and narratives exploring escalating water crises Indian and Nepal Himalayas face.
![The photograph titled 'Nainital: Changing landscape in the Himalayas'. Image: Toby Smith, Pani-Pahar series](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/lead-pani-pahar.jpg?itok=FH-Uggvg)
Assam continues to battle fluorosis
Posted on 09 May, 2018 08:26 AMFarhanuddin was just five years old when a pain in his knee began bothering him. It was 2013. Slowly, his legs began to change shape. They got so badly deformed that it began to affect his everyday life. He was gloomy and tired most times and had trouble walking.
![All stakeholders were brought on board to work on a comprehensive approach at tackling the fluorosis problem. (Image: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/assam.jpg?itok=evBLhioS)
Call for Admissions for Graduate Program of Water Science and Policy 2018 at Shiv Nadar University
Posted on 08 May, 2018 03:59 PMEntering its second year, the Graduate Program of Water Science and Policy 2018 at Shiv Nadar University envisages a multi-disciplinary classroom, engagement and content delivered by some of the best minds globally – experts on water who have worked on ground realities, made policies and initiated change.
High resolution maps of Ganga to aid cleanup
Posted on 08 May, 2018 11:33 AMEntire stretch of the Ganga to be mapped using GIS technology
![Maps to rescue Ganga. (Picture courtesy: Hindustan Times)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/ganga_clean_up.jpg?itok=d7Uj0JkI)
Delhi against in-principle nod for alternate landfill sites
Posted on 08 May, 2018 11:09 AMDelhi government opposes in-principle approval for two landfill sites on Yamuna floodplains
![Delhi's garbage (Picture courtesy: Hindustan Times)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/landfills_delhi.jpg?itok=fOcY4lAT)
Corporate hand in sustainable WASH
Posted on 07 May, 2018 11:34 AMDespite making sanitation a national priority with Swachh Bharat Mission, 50 percent of India defecated in the open till 2014. The goal to make India open defecation free by 2019 seemed ambitious. The government provided funding but it also sought active participation from the corporate sector.
![Without behaviour change, toilet infrastructure created will remain only structures that will never be used. (Image: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/toilet1_2.jpg?itok=qZnGHacX)
Sewage management: Govt’s elephant in the room
Posted on 06 May, 2018 11:25 AMIndia’s sanitation crisis involves huge cost. Transforming the country’s sanitation and waste management by 2019 is tall order.
![Sewage treatment plant in Kavoor, Mangalore installed under the Karnataka Urban Development and Coastal Environmental Management Project. (Image: Asian Development Bank)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/mangalore-stp.jpg?itok=T1QBhvRW)
Anicuts affect Mahanadi's flow
Posted on 26 Apr, 2018 01:02 PMGopal Nishad, a fisherman in his early 40s, is frustrated that there is hardly any fish left in the Mahanadi’s basin at Pitaibandh due to the lack of water in the basin. This basin is located near Rajim-Nawapara in Chhattisgarh, the proposed site for the fourth anicut on the Mahanadi.
![Anicut on the Mahanadi basin at Rajim-Nawapara (Source: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/41425163831_0d3d44336d_o.jpg?itok=6SrFogy4)
Environmentalists irked by draft CRZ notification
Posted on 24 Apr, 2018 12:17 PMEnvironmentalists fear new CRZ rules will favour infrastructure over coastal ecosystems
![Coastal areas might be opened up for ecotourism and infrastructure development.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/ennore_creek_-_fish_boats.jpg?itok=gQUtQ_Sd)
Exhibition on ‘The River Ganga: India’s Iconic Water Machine’ at New Delhi, April 19-21, 2018 and Roorkee April 25-26, 2018
Posted on 12 Apr, 2018 07:57 AMWhat is the exhibition about