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Water Management
UNESCO Workshop on 'Ensuring Water Security in Changing Environment Scenario for Water Professionals of Cluster Countries'
Posted on 27 Oct, 2015 10:44 AMA regional capacity development workshop on ‘Ensuring Water Security in Changing Environment Scenario for Water Professionals of South Asian Countries’ sponsored by UNESCO is being organized jointly by IIT Bombay, NIH Bho
Water warriors – Stories on people and their relationship with water
Posted on 20 Oct, 2015 06:49 PMWater sustains lives and livelihoods. It is a precious and finite resource that, in future years, is likely to become the main bone of contention between peoples, states and nations. Water – like every other finite resource – needs sustainable and equitable management, with equal focus on reducing demand, recycling and finding alternatives, as well as the usual emphasis on supply solutions.
![Prayers on the bank of the Kshipra](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/dsc_0007-3_0.jpg?itok=8WFDeoEW)
Implementing watershed development projects in Andhra Pradesh: Lessons learnt
Posted on 16 Oct, 2015 06:25 PMGovernment supported watershed development projects in India underwent a paradigm shift in 1994 with the advent of guidelines for the Watershed Development Programme as well as a number of pathbreaking guidelines that introduced innovative protocols that placed a strong emphasis on community participation. Development fun
![Watershed development, the need of the hour (Source: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/climate_change_4.jpg?itok=W5kuO_J0)
India's urban water systems: Challenges and way forward
Posted on 13 Oct, 2015 07:03 PMCurrent evidence shows that the number of people living in urban areas in India is expected to more than double and grow to around 800 million by 2050, which will pose unprecedented challenges for water management in the country. The paper titled 'Urban water systems in India: Typologies and hypothesis' published in the
![Water, a valuable resource (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/20150902_100418_0.jpg?itok=dxtogtWA)
National Watershed Management Project gets a go ahead
Posted on 13 Oct, 2015 01:50 PMCabinet approves the National Watershed Management Project, worth Rs.2,142 crore
![Irrigated fields of Uttarakhand (Source: IWP Flickr Photo)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/3206321979_d5977fa325_z.jpg?itok=r_ACATWS)
These 'River View' apartments could get you in neck deep!
Posted on 02 Oct, 2015 03:59 PMAt a time when the Central Government has stressed the need to protect our rivers, the Kaliasot river green belt in Madhya Pradesh has witnessed haphazard growth due to illegal constructions. Not only has the flow of the river which flows from the center of Bhopal been affected, but also community lives have been impacted.
![Construction work in progress within the Kaliasot river basin area (Source: Shirish Khare)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/kaliyasot_001.jpg?itok=a2BTiNz-)
Tribute to Prof. Ramaswamy Iyer
Posted on 22 Sep, 2015 09:40 PMRohini Nilekani Founder-Chairperson, Arghyam
![Ramaswamy Iyer, former Secretary Water Resources](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/ramaswamy_iyer_0.jpg?itok=LrjWhcy9)
A pond comes to life
Posted on 22 Sep, 2015 10:42 AMIt had not rained for awhile and the tiny cracks in the earth in Bapugaon were opening up. This little village in Chaksu tehsil of Jaipur was yet again faced with a drought in the mid 1980s. The situation was aggravated in 1986 when the river Dhund, an important water source for Bapugaon, went dry. Since then, both the quantity and quality of water started deteriorating.
![More than just physical rehabilitation of a water body, says Kalyan ji of Bapugaon](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/kalyan-ji-vdc-president-bapugaon1_1.jpg?itok=nFlR4AiS)
Polavaram--solution or problem?
Posted on 21 Sep, 2015 11:13 AMPapi kondalu, a scenic gorge located on the lower stretches of the Godavari, will soon be engulfed within the controversial Polavaram Dam. The river serves as a visitor’s delight as it winds through the hills--the same hills that are home to primitive tribal groups such as the Kondareddys.
![Papi kondalu gorge on Godavari (Source: Pranay Raj, Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/papikondalu_view_10.jpg?itok=BIkyi9bt)
Water guards of Rajasthan
Posted on 20 Sep, 2015 07:29 PMWe were driving down the long desert road that runs parallel to the Indo-Pakistan border in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan. There was little else to see except the surrounding sand dunes and desert grass.
![A taanka in the Thar desert](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/8531682290_df0d3dbdbe_b.jpg?itok=9YoYXnqx)