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Urban Water
Arghyam is looking for a Mission Leader - Partner Engagements
Posted on 20 Aug, 2020 03:51 PMAbout Arghyam
Groundwater extraction: NGT gets strict with commercial entities
Posted on 12 Aug, 2020 08:41 AMNGT bans granting general permissions for groundwater extraction to commercial entities
![NGT gets strict with commercial entities (Source: IWP Flickr album)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/32493765187_81650bd26f_c_1_0.jpg?itok=VbwhA7fP)
Banking on rainwater harvesting
Posted on 11 Aug, 2020 10:27 AMNational Water Mission’s (NWM) has launched a campaign ‘Catch the rain’ on a pan India basis to nudge the states and stakeholders to create appropriate rainwater harvesting structures (RWHS) suitable to the climatic conditions and sub-soil strata before the onset of monsoon.
![As a part of the campaign, work is being done on various interventions such as water for productive use, improving irrigation practices, creating water recharge structures (Image: Pikist)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/rain-river-lake-landscape-reflection-trees-weather.jpg?itok=AtNNMf1F)
NWP 2020: How is India’s youth reimagining its water future?
Posted on 29 Jun, 2020 03:23 PMWater, for India, has profound impacts on the health and wellbeing of our citizens; perhaps more so, considering how intertwined it is with various facets of our life, be they social, economic, gender-based, political, or even religious.
![IYWN pushes for water equity and sustainability in NWP 2020 (Image: Barefoot Photographers of Tilonia, Flickr Commons, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/drinking-water_0.jpg?itok=i2nBSGA_)
Impact of the pandemic on the endemic
Posted on 25 Jun, 2020 03:08 PMWhile the pandemic Covid-19 has completely taken over the health infrastructure in the country and all eyes were on it, the annual havoc created by Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES), popularly known as Chamki Bukhar is already making news in districts of Bihar.
![Will our fragile health care systems and infrastructure be able to deal with the burden of diseases like Japanese Encephalitis? (Image: Gorakhpur Environmental Action Group)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/geag1_0.jpg?itok=IwbeNi0E)
Agricultural crop substitution can bridge rural and urban water needs
Posted on 01 Jun, 2020 02:51 PMWith 85 percent of water being utilized for agriculture in India, a gradual shift in agriculture towards water-intensive crops have exposed the country to an increased threat of water crisis. The erratic nature of monsoons adds to this exposure and calls for judicious use of water resources, especially in the dry regions.
![Cropping pattern in Maharashtra over the past 40 years has shifted towards water-intensive crops like sugarcane (Image: Terry Sunderland/CIFOR)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/sugarcane_0.jpg?itok=Le2jGiAp)
Cyclone Amphan wreaks havoc in West Bengal
Posted on 27 May, 2020 08:33 AMCyclone Amphan causes widespread destruction in West Bengal
![A cyclonic storm that hit India in 2016 (Image Source: IWP Flickr photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/cyclone_tn_0.jpg?itok=KK0kW-wx)
Mumbai slums fight Covid-19
Posted on 26 May, 2020 06:43 AMAnand Jagtap, ex Officer on Special Duty (OSD) at the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM), the winner of the Lingaraja Memorial Award and a PhD scholar at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai has been associated with the Slum Sanitation Programme (SSP) undertaken by MCGM with support from the World Bank since 1997 to 2005.
![Flushing the virus, in times of Covid-19 (Image Source: Anand Jagtap)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/jagtap1.jpg?itok=Eh_sT4oY)
Flushing away Covid-19, the Mumbai way!
Posted on 23 May, 2020 11:55 AMSlums, fast growing Covid-19 hotspots!
![Training safai and cremation workers on safe practices during the corona pandemic (Image Source: Triratna Prerna Mandal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/maharashtra_covid.jpg?itok=xXcJQ3K8)
Impact of climate change on river basins in India
Posted on 21 May, 2020 07:29 PMIndia has many reasons to be concerned about climate change. Its large population depends upon climate-sensitive sectors such as agriculture and forestry for its livelihood.
![Global warming (Image: Sunando Roy, Flickr Commons, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/global-warming-sunando_roy.jpg?itok=5ryHmo0m)