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Content Library: Groundwater management
Posted on 10 Feb, 2020 10:11 AMParticipatory GroundWater Management (PGWM) - at its core believes in weaving together scientific and traditional groundwater management methods and making communities the champion of their water resources.
![Women drawing water from a beri (Image: IWP Flickr)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-03/Womenandwater.jpg?itok=jKeNvig3)
Budget 2020: Is the allocation enough to meet the piped water dream
Posted on 09 Feb, 2020 09:25 PMFinance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s budget announcement on February 1, 2020 made a push for piped rural drinking water supply and promised full coverage of all households by 2024.
![Just 21.4 percent of India’s households have access to piped water, as per NSSO data (Image: Niyantha Shekar, Flickr Commons; CC BY-NC 2.0)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/tap_3.jpg?itok=UvTVvyzY)
Jal Jeevan Mission receives Rs 11,500 crore allocation in Budget 2020-21
Posted on 06 Feb, 2020 10:07 PMGovernment allocates Rs 11,500 crore to Jal Jeevan Mission for 2020-21
In the budget 2020-21, the Finance Ministry has allocated Rs 11,500 crore to the Jal Jeevan Mission for the year for 2020-21.
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Managing commons: Need and challenges
Posted on 06 Feb, 2020 07:17 PMCommon pool resources, popularly known as “commons”, are those resources which are accessible to the whole community or village and to which no individual has exclusive ownership or property rights. Commons have two essential characteristics: non-excludability and high-subtractability.
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Banning RO purifier use when water conforms to BIS norms - Comments invited
Posted on 06 Feb, 2020 05:18 PMThe use of reverse osmosis (RO) purifiers has become a contentious issue, mainly because of the amount of water that is wasted following its use.
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Perils, politics and prospects of groundwater in India
Posted on 05 Feb, 2020 03:15 PMAfter independence, India was largely food insecure but post Green Revolution around the 1970s, foodgrain production increased manifold consequently reducing food insecurity and poverty in the country, in spite of rapid population growth. Its ability to achieve targeted results was largely dependent on the explosion of groundwater abstraction mechanisms like tubewells.
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Call for nominations - Training-cum-Workshop on Water Resources Management for NGOs and Media Personnel’s at National Water Academy
Posted on 31 Jan, 2020 11:18 AMBrief Content:
Ramsar tag granted to ten more wetlands
Posted on 30 Jan, 2020 10:36 AM10 more wetlands in the country are now Ramsar sites
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Monitoring guidelines for sand mining released
Posted on 29 Jan, 2020 11:39 PMGuidelines to monitor illegal sand mining released
For the first time, the Environment Ministry has released Enforcement and Monitoring Guidelines for Sand Mining 2020 to monitor and check illegal sand mining in the country.
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Increased river traffic threatens Gangetic dolphins
Posted on 22 Jan, 2020 08:57 PMGangetic dolphins under threat thanks to increased river traffic
![The Gangetic Dolphin (Source: Arati Kumar Rao)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/gangetic_dolphin1_0_1.jpg?itok=4rKh9adf)