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Voluntary Citizen or Civil Society Sector
Breathing life into Baitarani
Posted on 12 Dec, 2016 12:13 PMPranab Choudhury has been actively engaged with the causes of the poor and the environment for more than a decade.
![Pranab Choudhury](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/thumb_dsc0041_1024.jpg?itok=Zn5i5BzD)
Wai celebrates Krishnabai Utsav
Posted on 29 Nov, 2016 01:22 PMThe Krishnabai Utsav, a festival celebrating and revering the river Krishna as it flows through Wai, begins tomorrow in the town of
![The river Krishna at Wai (Source: Makarand Shende)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/river_krishna_4.jpg?itok=vNYOKtz7)
Grand scheme to befriend farmers
Posted on 26 Nov, 2016 06:38 PM“Agriculture is a highly risky venture,” says Nagi Reddy, a farmer in Anantapur. Reddy is a small farmer affected by uncertainty in crop production stemming from unpredictable weather events and pest attacks, especially in his cotton crop. He works on his 2.5-acre farm and the rest of the time, he clocks in as a tenant farmer at an adjacent farm.
![A group of farmers in Karnataka's project on spice value chain development.. (Source: Rakesh Sahai, Wikimedia Commons, 2015)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/a_group_of_indian_women_farmers_karnataka_spice_value_chain_development_2015_rakeshsahai-adb.jpg?itok=uFEohjdR)
Use rain to beat drought
Posted on 23 Nov, 2016 10:32 AMA recent analysis by the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) determined the rooftop rainwater harvesting potential of the districts in Maharashtra in a year by calculating the average amount of rainwater in litres that can be caught over one square foo
![Mumbai in monsoon. (Source: Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/bombay_flooded_street_2_1.jpg?itok=tx90P0Pt)
Twin lakes of Bhoj
Posted on 21 Nov, 2016 10:10 PMThe Bhoj wetland is situated in the heart of Bhopal district in Madhya Pradesh. The wetland consists of two man-made lakes--the upper lake and the lower lake.
![Raja Bhoj statue at the upper lake.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/_dsc0119tp1s.jpg?itok=KmSnJ-rd)
World Toilet Day: Beyond BCC
Posted on 19 Nov, 2016 07:22 AMThe Swachh Bharat (Gramin) website reports an increase in the total percentage of household toilet constructed from 42.02 percent in 2014 to 56.85 percent as on November 15, 2016. The number of open defecation free villages have also increased from 50,168 in 2015-16 to 1,17,242 villages.
![Children pose outside a toilet in Sanarpudur village, Namakkal.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/9063610653_0078275a59_z_0.jpg?itok=8ldB9VaJ)
NGT raps Delhi government over air pollution
Posted on 14 Nov, 2016 05:59 AMEnvironment minister calls Delhi pollution 'emergency situation'
![Delhi shrouded in smog. (Source: Jean-Etienne Minh-Duy/Flickr)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/5543835085_26a8a47275_b.jpg?itok=HV-L0Ghf)
WASH away Ujjain woes
Posted on 07 Nov, 2016 10:31 PMDespite all the hype around Swachh Bharat Mission, the situation on the ground remains dismal. The city of Ujjain is located on the western part of Madhya Pradesh on the Malwa Plateau and is primarily a religious tourism centre due to the Mahakal temple.
![Open well in Hira mill ki chaal slum situated next to an open drain resulting in its water getting polluted.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/hira_mill_well.jpg?itok=zVYsnMse)
Angry, swirling waters
Posted on 07 Nov, 2016 09:55 PM“The gravity of the Kedarnath disaster in June 2013, which killed thousands of people, shocked the public almost to the point of numbness”... begins the forward by Bill Aitken in Hridayesh Joshi’s account of the disaster Rage of the river: The untold story of the Kedarnath disaster. It’s a sentence which will whirl in your mind while you read Joshi’s book.
![Gori floods (Source: Chicu Lokgariwar, India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/gori_floods_0_0.jpg?itok=_JV7wkqA)
Reviving pond naturally
Posted on 03 Nov, 2016 09:51 PMFor hundreds of years, tanks, both big and small, served people and cattle alike in Tamil Nadu. Chennai’s neighbouring district of Kancheepuram was the the wealthiest when it came to water through these means.
![The renovated Samathamman temple pond in Kooram.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/30616277851_48164d7f9b_z.jpg?itok=knBf6Gm1)