Amita Bhaduri

Trading in virtual water

A study highlights the need to scale down the export of rice, maize, buffalo meat and other items to conserve groundwater in India. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 11 months ago

A farmer uses a hosepipe to irrigate crops at her farm in Nilgiris mountains, Tamil Nadu (Image: Hamish John Appleby for IWMI, Flickr Commons, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Replacing rice will improve India’s climate resilience

A study calls for solutions that can benefit farmers and the environment and positively impact India's nutrition indicators. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 11 months ago

Rice field in Karnataka (Image: Guldem Ustun, Flickr Commons, CC BY 2.0)

Holistic approach needed to clean the Ganga

A report by the India Rivers Forum highlights the need to focus further than the main stem of the Ganga river. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 11 months ago

Distant snow clad mountains, the smaller hills and the Ganga river (Image: Srimoyee Banerjee, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0)

Wind energy development and policy in India

A study highlights the barriers to harnessing India's potential for wind energy. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 11 months ago

Windmills in Karnataka, India. Picture credit: India Water Portal

Jaipur’s wastewater conundrum

A report by NIUA brings to light the chinks in Jaipur's sewage system and suggests some solutions. Amita Bhaduri posted 5 years ago

Routine check done by the sewage treatment plant staff in Delawas, Jaipur. The plant is part of the ADB best practices projects list. (Image: Asian Development Bank, Flickr Commons)

Climate change may reduce water available to cool power plants

A study finds that India may run out of water to cool power plants in the near future. Amita Bhaduri posted 5 years ago

Tuticorin power plant in Tamil Nadu (Image: Ram Kumar, Wikimedia Commons; CC BY-SA 2.0)

Climate shocks and gender vulnerabilities in the Upper Ganga basin

Study points to vulnerabilities faced by women in the mountains and plains of Uttarakhand, which is likely to only increase with climate change. Amita Bhaduri posted 5 years ago

Ganga's riverflow at Rishikesh in Uttarakhand (Image courtesy: Ankit Singh; Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0)

300 million people will be vulnerable to annual coastline flooding by 2050

The number of people vulnerable to floods triggered by climate change by 2050 is triple that of previous estimates, according to a new study. Amita Bhaduri posted 5 years ago

Aerial view of Chennai during floods 2015 (Image: Veethika, Wikimedia Commons, CC-SA 4.0 International)

Unregulated e-waste hotspots operating in Delhi with no safeguards

Study identifies 5,000 illegal e-waste units in Delhi operating without health and environmental safeguards. Amita Bhaduri posted 5 years ago

Most of the operations in these units were found to be manual and rudimentary (Image: Toxics Link)

Conflicts over land on the rise in India

A forum discusses the need to stop illegal land transfers and land alienation of the poor. Amita Bhaduri posted 5 years 1 month ago

The maldharis from kutch on their own road trip (Image: Malay Maniar, Flickr Commons, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Manipur’s floating lake at risk

A study using remote sensing techniques assesses significant changes in land use in Loktak lake. Amita Bhaduri posted 5 years 1 month ago

A home on Loktak lake in Moirang, Manipur (Image: Sharada Prasad CS, Wikipedia Commons)

Towards a new horizontal water federalism

Where do the aspirations of riverine ecosystems and communities fit in a federalist set-up? Amita Bhaduri posted 5 years 1 month ago

Odisha and Chhattisgarh have locked horns over the distribution of waters of the Mahanadi river at Hirakud dam (Image: Makarand Purohit, India Water Portal)

Deadly chemicals from detergents end up in rivers

India needs to come up with a regulation on use of toxic chemicals in detergents. Amita Bhaduri posted 5 years 1 month ago

Nonylphenol, a toxic chemical found in detergents is known to enter the water bodies and even the food chain, where it bio-accumulates and can pose serious environmental and health risks (Image: Toxics Link)

River as a cultural mosaic

A dialogue that highlights the cultural essence of rivers Amita Bhaduri posted 5 years 1 month ago

Yamuna near Taj Mahal (Image: Flickr Commons, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Solving the energy conundrum

Some lessons for transition to small scale solar energy in rural areas from the work of MAJLIS, a collective of dalit and adivasi women in Madhya Pradesh. Amita Bhaduri posted 5 years 1 month ago

There has to be a policy shift for decentralised off grid or distributed generation catering to small communities. (Image: MAJLIS)

Return of the pearl millet

A women's collective in western Madhya Pradesh protects crop varieties bred by indigenous farming communities. Amita Bhaduri posted 5 years 1 month ago

This variety of bajra has extended whiskers on its seeds when on the plant. This prevented the birds from eating it. Growing bajra in Pandutalav became possible only when Majlis could lay its hands on this variety. (Image: Majlis)

Water wisdom in times of a climate crisis

New report documents India’s rich traditions of water harvesting and sustainable use. Amita Bhaduri posted 5 years 1 month ago

Bandhara (in Nashik, Maharashtra), a low masonry weir of 1.2 to 4.5 m height, which is constructed across a small stream for diverting the water into a small main canal taking off from its upstream side (Image: Shailendra Yashwant, Oxfam India)

India’s deepening water crisis

Making false doomsday claims of a water crisis could support problematic mega solutions, which could lead to more problems. Amita Bhaduri posted 5 years 1 month ago

Indore leads the way in making its lakes pollution-free

Floating 'islands' give new lease of life to a lake in Indore Amita Bhaduri posted 5 years 2 months ago

An attempt to make our lakes pollution free (Image: Clean Water)

Gujarat tops NITI Aayog’s water index for second time

India’s water crisis likely to worsen as demand projected to exceed supply by 2050, says report Amita Bhaduri posted 5 years 2 months ago

With water outages, shortages and availability, one sees these pots in every home, village, by the rainbow-hued hundred in shops, and even in precarious bundles balanced on the bikes of travelling wallah pot-sale vendors in Chennai. (Image: McKay Savage, CC BY 2.0)