Amita Bhaduri

A reflection on multi-faceted droughts in Bundelkhand region

Alternatives have to be re-adapted to the understanding of droughts in the wake of climate change. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 4 months ago

Child walks through the parched field for kilometers to fetch water in peak summer in village Banjari (Image: Reshma Sahoo)

Repurposing microirrigation to deal with water woes

Microirrigation does not often bring about a change in cropping patterns, with farmers continuing with water-intensive crops. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 4 months ago

Irrigation pump supplying water for drip irrigation (Image: IWMI Flickr, (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0))

Digital tools to tackle water scarcity

FRANK Water and Arup launch the WASH Connect mobile app and WASH Basins Toolkit to empower local government and communities to jointly manage water resources. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 4 months ago

About 200,000 people die each year in India from diseases related to unclean water (Image: FRANK Water)

NWP 2020: How is India’s youth reimagining its water future?

IYWN submits its recommendations to the NWP working committee in June 2020. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 4 months ago

IYWN pushes for water equity and sustainability in NWP 2020 (Image: Barefoot Photographers of Tilonia, Flickr Commons, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Boosting rural livelihoods using agriculture and MGNREGA amidst Covid-19

Strengthening farm and non-farm livelihoods can pave the way for food and nutritional security. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 4 months ago

MGNREGA can play an important role in integration of migrant labour in the rural economy (Image: Ashutosh Nanda)

Impact of the pandemic on the endemic

Japanese Encephalitis and Acute Encephalitis Syndrome could spread in the shadow of the pandemic. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 4 months ago

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)

Flood threat looms amid Covid-19 in Bihar

Can Bihar deal with the double whammy of Covid-19 and the annual floods? Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 5 months ago

An aerial view of flood affected areas in Kosi river, Bihar on August 28, 2008 (Image: Publi.Resource.Org; Flickr Commons (CC BY 2.0))

Elected women leaders of gram panchayats: Critical roles in Covid-19 response

Women leaders of gram panchayats have ideated and executed solutions innovatively and instinctively on dealing with Covid-19 pandemic. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 5 months ago

Women are emerging as effective leaders who can play constructive roles in containing the Covid-19 spread (Image: UN Women/Gaganjit Singh; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Groundwater depletion in Punjab: Time for a major policy overhaul

The time for quick fixes is over; a comprehensive policy overhaul is urgently needed to impede the juggernaut of Punjab's groundwater depletion. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 5 months ago

Pumping groundwater with the energy generated from solar panels (Image: Prashanth Vishwanathan/IWMI; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Villagers in Rajasthan show resilience during national lockdown

Continuing to prepare rural communities for the most unprecedented events in Alwar. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 5 months ago

Repairing the school infrastructures before students return to their classrooms (Image: Sehgal Foundation)

Pollution in Ganga: Understanding culture and climate justice

Using culture as a tool to base the narratives to push the agenda of climate action. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 5 months ago

Blessing or Curse? It's time for you to choose! (Image: Swapnil Saundarya as part of the Save Ganga Movement (Dec, 2016) http://swapnilsaundarya.blogspot.com)

Need to protect the unique geological features in the Upper Ken basin

An attempt to document the geological features, water potential, and traditional wisdom around them in the Upper Ken basin. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 5 months ago

Panghata Kund in village Aloni, Panna (June 2014, after initial monsoon) (Image: Seema Ravandale)

Living through Cyclone Amphan and Covid-19: Climate change and water security

In the face of frequent cyclones and floods in the region, investment and long term planning is needed on making basic services of drinking water resilient. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 5 months ago

Millions of people in India and Bangladesh lost their means of employment, food, water and homes in one go during the cyclone (Image: Srikanth Kolari/ActionAid India)

Covid-19 hits women’s access to menstrual hygiene products

The lockdown has adversely impacted access to menstrual hygiene information and products, reveals a survey by the Menstrual Health Alliance India. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 5 months ago

Menstrual cycle and personal hygiene items (Image: Marco Verch, Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0); Flickr Commons)

Agricultural crop substitution can bridge rural and urban water needs

Rural and urban water crisis in India can be addressed through adaptive changes in current agricultural practices, as per a study in Maharashtra by the Indian School of Business. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 5 months ago

Cropping pattern in Maharashtra over the past 40 years has shifted towards water-intensive crops like sugarcane (Image: Terry Sunderland/CIFOR)

Lockdown puts citymakers at risk

The forced exodus of the migrants who built our cities indicates how they were shortchanged on every front. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 5 months ago

A worker at a construction site (Image: ILO/ Joydeep Mukherjee; NC-ND 3.0 IGO License)

Covid-19 threatens to worsen India's water crisis

Regulations for water use, innovation for treating antimicrobial resistance and monitoring of infected plastic leakage needs to be prioritised to curtail the water crisis. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 6 months ago

Marine litter. Plastic bottles on a beach. (Image: Bo Eide, Flickr Commons; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Technology to build knowledge and capacities beyond COVID

The time has come to utilize technology to build resilience of communities by training them to strive for better livelihood opportunities where they want to. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 6 months ago

Bringing the digital revolution to the hands of real India (Image: CXOToday.com)

Impact of climate change on river basins in India

Climate change impact, adaptation and vulnerability assessment no longer a speculative, academic endeavor. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 6 months ago

Global warming (Image: Sunando Roy, Flickr Commons, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Covid-19: Managing the disaster in rural India

There is a need to rethink our disaster management policies and the top-down approach that it follows. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 6 months ago

Drought in Marathwada (Image: Flickr Commons)