Amita Bhaduri

Drinking water access to all in Bihar: Reach, benefits and challenges

Significantly reduced the daily drudgery of women in rural areas Amita Bhaduri posted 3 years 2 months ago

The water requirement for the scheme is being fulfilled through borings, submersible pumps, and distribution pipelines implemented by the Department of Panchayati Raj, Government of Bihar. (Image: Sehgal Foundation)

COVID-19 and social protection: Impact in the agriculture sector

Lower transaction costs, minimal leakages, and immediate delivery make a strong case for direct cash transfers, says study. Amita Bhaduri posted 3 years 3 months ago

Access to credit increased farmers' expenditures on farm-related activities. (Image: Pixy.org)

Lights out to mark the Earth Hour

This year’s theme calls attention to climate change Amita Bhaduri posted 3 years 3 months ago

Through this year’s theme, awareness is being raised about the crisis of nature loss, climate change and global warming (Image: SomeCG, Pixabay)

Water footprint of food and cooking fuel

Rice and wheat have large water footprints in rural India Amita Bhaduri posted 3 years 3 months ago

Madhya Pradesh has the largest blue water footprint for food (334 m3/cap/year) and the blue water footprint from wheat contributes 87%. (Image: Pixabay)

Efforts towards skilling local communities in water management

Enhancing community based water resource management Amita Bhaduri posted 3 years 3 months ago

Women are involved in the process of developing the water budget from a gender lens. (Image: Samerth)

Sheroes: A tribute to women who value water

Beating odds, women water warriors deepen their work on water Amita Bhaduri posted 3 years 3 months ago

Rural women believe in the power of ‘water continuity’ or having sustained and intergenerational access to water resources (Image: Romit Sen)

Lessons from the Uttarakhand disaster

Experts blame it on projects in ecologically fragile zone Amita Bhaduri posted 3 years 3 months ago

Urban lake governance and sustainability

Applying the social-ecological system framework Amita Bhaduri posted 3 years 3 months ago

Governing and sustaining an urban lake entails improvements in its social and ecological characteristics. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)Wiki

Climate change threatens water access for world’s poorest communities

Clean water plays a critical role in helping communities cope with climate change. Amita Bhaduri posted 3 years 3 months ago

Unless communities have access to a reliable and safe source of water, their health will suffer. (Image: WaterAid)

Are solar powered irrigation systems scalable in India?

Compendium on solar-powered irrigation in India Amita Bhaduri posted 3 years 3 months ago

Solar power has huge potential for application in the agriculture sector, especially in the irrigation space. (Image: IWMI)

Energising Bihar’s agriculture

IWMI’s novel experiment in Chakhaji village Amita Bhaduri posted 3 years 3 months ago

Yatin Kumar, one of the early solar irrigation entrepreneurs in Chakhaji (Image: IWMI)

Decentralized water resources management

Role of village communities and rural local governments Amita Bhaduri posted 3 years 3 months ago

A woman fetching water from the third tap in the house premises. (Image: Ajaya Kumar Behera)

India’s pandemic generation: Inching closer to ecological disasters

Battered by the impact of COVID-19 Amita Bhaduri posted 3 years 3 months ago

Environmental crisis leading to more vulnerabilities among the marginalised communities. (Image: Pixabay)

Clean fuel choices of urban India’s poor

Insights from urban slum households across six states Amita Bhaduri posted 3 years 3 months ago

PMUY should expand its reach to urban slum households, given that there are still households without LPG connections. (Image: Adam Cohn, (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0))

Strengthening the frontline for water security

Challenges and aspirations of community champions and how programs can address them Amita Bhaduri posted 3 years 3 months ago

Kalyani Dash works with 150 households in the village directly and trains them on chemical-free farming techniques, water secure crop production, efficient water use in agriculture for a sustainable farming future as well as kitchen and nutrition gardening. (Image: FES)

Young professionals motivate people to participate in rural sanitation

Involving youth to identify appropriate WASH solutions Amita Bhaduri posted 3 years 3 months ago

The Young Professionals worked closely with the District and aimed to fill the gap of the Swachchata Dooths (Image: SCOPE)

Study detects high levels of arsenic in cooked rice in Bihar

Need to remove arsenic from the food chain and not just drinking water in endemic areas Amita Bhaduri posted 3 years 4 months ago

Median excess lifetime cancer risk of 2 per 10,000 from food arsenic exposure in Bihar. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)

Fluoride and nitrate - a health problem in Anantapur

High fluoride and nitrate cause dental, skeletal fluorosis and methemoglobinemia in infants and stomach cancer in adults Amita Bhaduri posted 3 years 4 months ago

Non carcinogenic risks for adults are more prone to risk greater than those children and infants in the study area (Image: India Water Portal)

Digital tool to monitor groundwater

Women in Rajasthan use a groundwater monitoring tool to record water levels and promote water literacy Amita Bhaduri posted 3 years 4 months ago

Women use an open source groundwater monitoring tool that enables collection of water level data of wells and its collation on a web platform for easy access by all. (Image: FES)

MARVI: Securing groundwater supplies through engaging village communities

Improving decision-making for sustainable groundwater use Amita Bhaduri posted 3 years 4 months ago

Designing participatory processes to assist village level discovery and implementation of solutions for sustaining groundwater use and improved livelihoods (Image: MARVI)