Amita Bhaduri
Outreach of current disaster-related apps in India poor
posted 4 years 4 months ago![Floods in Uttarakhand in 2013 severely damaged hundreds of villages across Uttarkashi, Rudraprayag, Chamoli and Tehri regions (Image: Oxfam International, Flickr Commons, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/oxfam-flood.jpg?itok=44uRWnzc)
Jal Jeevan Mission: Will piped water to every household no longer be a pipe dream?
posted 4 years 4 months ago![A school boy from Tilonia in semi-arid region of Rajasthan drinks from a tap from a rainwater harvesting tank that provides clean drinking water. (Image: Barefoot photographers of Tilonia)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/tap-water.jpg?itok=fRxWZL1R)
Women lead the way in water quality surveillance
posted 4 years 4 months ago![Organised under WaterAid India’s partnership with GAP, water testing workshop (2019) held in Indore district aimed at training women and youth to lead the entire process of community water management – from planning to supply, operations and maintenance and to educate communities on water-quality issues. (Image: WaterAid India/Ashima Narain)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/wai1.jpg?itok=FVFEjRSY)
The miserable plight of sanitation workers
posted 4 years 4 months ago![A latrine emptier is lifted out of a pit in Bangalore, India (Image: WaterAid/CS Sharada Prasad)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/wateraid-cs_sharada_prasad.jpg?itok=us6DmgNs)
Parasite – the film and India’s disaster management
posted 4 years 4 months ago![A still from the movie Parasite (Image: Christiano Betta, Flickr Commons: CC BY 2.0)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/parasite.jpg?itok=ebHf23tq)
Unravelling Kuttanad’s drinking water paradox
posted 4 years 4 months ago![Lack of sufficient quality water, poor pipe connectivity and frequent breakdown of existing pipelines are common in the area (Image: Jayasree Vaidyanathan)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/pipe.jpg?itok=2mf1p4dU)
Community water purification system in a Delhi urban slum
posted 4 years 5 months ago![Once selected for the role, the women entrepreneurs were trained to run the community filtration plant and overlook all operations ranging from the management of customers to the plant finances. (Image: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/asbah_0.jpg?itok=OxbVguSG)
Tangled bones, children unable to move and lives cut short
posted 4 years 5 months ago![INREM Foundation has helped develop protocols on designing proactive action on safe water and nutrition to help mitigate fluorosis (Image: Vikas Ratanjee)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/vikas1.jpeg?itok=mTv-AI0l)
Overcoming heavy odds to emerge as a WATSAN model
posted 4 years 5 months ago![AKRSP has promoted rainwater harvesting to address the issue of scarce potable water at Mangrol. By encouraging households to collect rainwater using pipes on their roofs which then drain into an underground tank they have been able to promote water security. (Image: Aga Khan Foundation Flickr)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/mangrol.jpg?itok=fKFm-VCl)
Decoding budget 2020
posted 4 years 5 months ago![Woman farmer sifting grain (Image: Ray Witlin/World Bank CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/sifting_grain.jpg?itok=0rLjuCR3)
Budget 2020: Is the allocation enough to meet the piped water dream
posted 4 years 5 months ago![Just 21.4 percent of India’s households have access to piped water, as per NSSO data (Image: Niyantha Shekar, Flickr Commons; CC BY-NC 2.0)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/tap_3.jpg?itok=UvTVvyzY)
Managing commons: Need and challenges
posted 4 years 5 months ago![Plantation in Gomala (Image: Foundation for Ecological Security)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/plantation_in_gomala_1.jpg?itok=GlBcRaZ1)
Perils, politics and prospects of groundwater in India
posted 4 years 5 months ago![An irrigation well at Randullabad, Maharashtra. (Image source: India Water Portal on Flickr)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/groundwater_3.jpg?itok=OTSLWBTH)
What's there for water in the budget kitty?
posted 4 years 5 months ago![The budget allocation suggests that the predominant focus of the Ministry of Jal Shakti continues to be on water resources development rather than water resources governance or management (Image: Brian Gratwicke, Flickr Commons, CC BY 2.0)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/kids-swim.jpg?itok=FnoAM3iP)
Mountain women bear the brunt of climate change
posted 4 years 5 months ago![Women stand to be highly vulnerable in most cases to the changes in the climate and its extremes. (Image: Bo Nielson, Flickr Commons, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/women_farmer.jpg?itok=lkWpDUAX)
Rubber monoculture: Death knell for agrobiodiversity
posted 4 years 5 months ago![Tripura had the highest rate of growth of rubber plantation during the first decade of the millennium as compared to any other state (Image: Flickr Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/rubber.jpg?itok=dxObko2Q)
Climatic shocks wreak havoc on the Mahanadi delta
posted 4 years 5 months ago![The people living in the Mahanadi delta are forced to cope with frequent disasters, but recent progress in warnings, evacuation and shelters seems to have reduced losses. Urban areas in the delta are expanding and there is rural to urban migration which can be expected to continue. These urban areas will have important implications for the future of the delta. (Image: Helmer, Flickr Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/delta.jpg?itok=c0P4wLKa)
Neeru and the Nilgiris
posted 4 years 5 months ago![A view of the Nilgiris (Image credits: Golkul Halan)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/neeru_1.jpg?itok=t5jynk64)
India’s food systems in transition
posted 4 years 6 months ago![Organic food (Image: P L Tandon, Flickr Commons, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/organic_food-pltandon.jpg?itok=weI4vp5M)
A climate change wake-up call
posted 4 years 6 months ago![Heat-exposed work has produced about half of India’s GDP, and employs about 75 percent of the labor force. There will be a need to shift working hours for outdoor workers and undertake heat management efforts (Image: Ian D Keating, Flickr Commons, CC BY 2.0)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/heat.jpg?itok=aBbN-7hC)