Amita Bhaduri

Art of killing a river

Manoj Misra speaks on the much neglected area of the Yamuna river and its floodplains and why its mere clean-up is not enough--especially as the World Culture Festival approaches. Amita Bhaduri posted 8 years 9 months ago

NGT had in July 2015 slapped a fine on the Akshardham temple management for carrying out expansion without prior environmental clearance and without examining whether the expanded portion fell on the Yamuna’s floodplains (Source: Ramesh N G, Wikimedia Commons)

Budget needs to protect food security

Budgetary support needs to be upped for the implementation of the public distribution system entitlements under the National Food Security Act. Amita Bhaduri posted 8 years 9 months ago

Children at an anganwadi centre, Mysore waiting for the mid-day meal

Can Budget 2016-17 breathe life into the public health system?

Budget asks include the upping of health spending, passing new health policies and involving civil society among other things. Amita Bhaduri posted 8 years 9 months ago

Measuring for malnutrition in Madhya Pradesh (Source: Russell Watkins, Wikimedia Commons)

Agriculture and informal sector labour need a budgetary push

What initiatives should the 2016-17 budget include for the agriculture sector? ActionAid India’s submission to the Ministry of Finance looks at these. Amita Bhaduri posted 8 years 9 months ago

Water and sanitation sector needs a budget push

Better regulation and transparency is needed in the WASH sector to ensure that India meets its Swachh Bharat Mission targets, as well as the Sustainable Development Goals. Amita Bhaduri posted 8 years 9 months ago

Pumping up hopes the solar way

What will it take for the Haryana government to switch 7 lakh groundwater pumps to solar powered options so it can lower its energy footprint and contain losses in the energy sector? Amita Bhaduri posted 8 years 9 months ago

Better incentives needs to be provided to farmers to use solar pumps for tubewells in Haryana

Alarm bells ring for Delhi’s groundwater

The city's old wells and baodis are running dry, and the Yamuna is getting more polluted by the day. Where is Delhi's water going to come from when groundwater levels are also dropping? Amita Bhaduri posted 8 years 9 months ago

Residents say they are forced to flout the groundwater extraction norms with illegal groundwater pumps in Narela in North-west Delhi due to insufficient and poor quality of water supplied.

Ken-Betwa river gets some respite

Statutory clearance not given for the much touted Ken-Betwa model link project of the Interlinking of Rivers programme due to extreme social and environmental concerns. Amita Bhaduri posted 8 years 10 months ago

View of Betwa river (Source: Manual Menal, Wikimedia Commons)

From toilet to tap: Is that the future of drinking water?

Singapore's done it, and so has Orange County USA. Even astronauts do it. Drink recycled wastewater, that is! So will it become a reality in India? Amita Bhaduri posted 8 years 11 months ago

Yogendra Singh, an operator, explains how the 'Toilet to tap' plant functions

Using community support to battle fluoride contamination

Anita Sharma and Anil Gautam of Peoples Science Institute, Dehradun talk about their work with fluoride affected communities in Madhya Pradesh. Amita Bhaduri posted 8 years 11 months ago

Several young children in Jhabua suffer from skeletal fluorosis (Source: INREM Foundation)

Choppy waters and a calm river voyager

Emmanuel Theophilus was awarded the ' Bhagirath Prayas Samman' at the India Rivers Day 2015 for his valiant and untiring effort to safeguard the integrity of the Mahakali River. Amita Bhaduri posted 8 years 11 months ago

Theophilus being awarded the ' Bhagirath Prayas Samman' (Source: Kush Sethi)

Undisposed toxic waste still haunts Bhopal’s groundwater

A report says that many locals in Bhopal are dealing with “high rates of birth defects, rapidly rising cancer rates, neurological damage, chaotic menstrual cycles and mental illness". Amita Bhaduri posted 8 years 11 months ago

A poem that describes how the city was left destroyed is written on a wall near a memorial for those killed & disabled by the Bhopal gas tragedy, 1984

Tackling water salinity in Mewat, Haryana

Lalit Mohan Sharma of Sehgal Foundation, Gurgaon speaks to India Water Portal about innovative solutions to sail through Mewat's water crisis. Amita Bhaduri posted 9 years ago

Tackling salinity in Mewat (Source: Lalit Mohan Sharma)

India needs to radically overhaul its water institutions

Can India draw some lessons from the Singaporean water story? Prof Asit Biswas, founder of the Third World Centre for Water Management in Mexico, talks to India Water Portal. Amita Bhaduri posted 9 years ago

India's water sector: Endemic corruption and public apathy (Source: K N Balraj, IWP Flickr Photos)

What it takes to clean India

A village school in Madhya Pradesh deals with the micro-realities of the area and gets out of a sanitation crisis. Amita Bhaduri posted 9 years ago

Sewage water filter assembly in the school

Sustainable practices in slash-and-burn lands in Nagaland

Jhum or shifting cultivation has been criticised regarding its ecological and economic impacts. UNDP takes on the challenge by introducing integrated farm development practices. Amita Bhaduri posted 9 years ago

Shifting cultivation lands (Source: Prashant N S, 2006, Wikimedia)

A pond comes to life

Hundreds of villagers pitched in to revive a village pond at Bapugaon, a village in Rajasthan, to make it water and food secure. Amita Bhaduri posted 9 years 2 months ago

More than just physical rehabilitation of a water body, says Kalyan ji of Bapugaon

Polavaram--solution or problem?

Dam history will be repeated with the construction of the Polavaram Dam. Unfortunately, other options that could have been looked into such as reduction of height, were ignored. Amita Bhaduri posted 9 years 2 months ago

Papi kondalu gorge on Godavari (Source: Pranay Raj, Wikimedia Commons)

Bisalpur revisited--10 years after protesters were shot, killing 5

Despite many plans, neither rural nor urban are water secure thanks to the Bisalpur Dam since it was constructed in 2007. Amita Bhaduri posted 9 years 2 months ago

Kisan Sewa Samiti, Chaksu struggling for drinking water allocation from Bisalpur dam (Source: CECODECON)

Kaun kitne paani mein: Movie review

A Hindi film set in a water starved locale in Odisha asks, "Can water be bartered for love?" Amita Bhaduri posted 9 years 2 months ago