Swati Bansal

Locals reject social impact assessment report of Luhri II hydropower project
News this week Swati Bansal posted 4 years 11 months ago
Sutlej river in Kinnaur, Himachal Pradesh (Image source: Sanyam Bahga, Wikipedia)
NGT orders 100 percent treatment of sewage entering rivers
Policy matters this week Swati Bansal posted 4 years 11 months ago
Polythene bags and solid waste left behind as water recedes in the Ganga river. (Source: India Water Portal on Flickr)
CGWB signs MoU for participatory groundwater management
Policy matters this week Swati Bansal posted 4 years 11 months ago
An irrigation well at Randullabad, Maharashtra (Source: India Water Portal on Flickr)
40 percent of rural households in India lack access to drinking water
News this week Swati Bansal posted 4 years 11 months ago
Women in Bametara district of Chattisgarh line up to collect water. Photo credit: Makarand Purohit for India Water Portal
Manual scavenging persists in India due to weak enforcement of laws
News this week Swati Bansal posted 5 years ago
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Free septic tank cleaning in Delhi; CM attempts to reduce sewer deaths
Policy matters this week Swati Bansal posted 5 years ago
Image credit: Sharada Prasad
NGT pushes to ban RO purifiers for water with TDS below 500 mg/l
Policy matters this week Swati Bansal posted 5 years ago
A domestic RO water purifier
Cyclone Bulbul devastates West Bengal and Odisha
News this week Swati Bansal posted 5 years ago
A cyclonic storm that hit India in 2016. (Source: IWP Flickr photos)
MoRD asks states to focus on water conservation and harvesting in MGNREGA to help achieve Jal Jeevan Mission targets
Policy matters this week Swati Bansal posted 5 years ago
Image source: The Indian Express
How Delhi's air pollution emergency links back to water
News this week Swati Bansal posted 5 years ago
Delhi-NCR shrouded under toxic haze (Source: India Water Portal)
Arrival of northeast monsoon & retreat of southwest monsoon coincides this year; Salt lake and several metro cities shrinking at alarming pace
News this week Swati Bansal posted 5 years 1 month ago
Yamuna river in Delhi (Source: Sudhanshu Malhotra via IWP Flickr Photos)
Drinking water availability should be a top priority, concrete action should be taken against water wastage: NGT
Policy matters this week Swati Bansal posted 5 years 1 month ago
Queuing up for water (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)
Pune groundwater extraction doubles in last decade; Uranium found in Telengana groundwater; Lower Subansiri project gets a boost
News this week Swati Bansal posted 5 years 1 month ago
Subansiri river in Arunachal Pradesh (Source: Kakul Baruah via Wikimedia Commons)
Jal Jeevan Mission: States to bear half the cost, local bodies to decide water charges
Policy matters this week Swati Bansal posted 5 years 1 month ago
Women filling water from a tap (Source: IWP Flickr photos)
SC stops further cutting of trees at Aarey; Idol immersion in Ganges to attract fine of Rs. 50,000; Household appliances to be rated on water consumption efficiency
Policy matters this week Swati Bansal posted 5 years 1 month ago
Ganesh Visarjan (Source: Wikimedia Commons via Chetan Gole)
Goa fights to protect its khazans; Coonoor cleans its river; Punjab gov scrambles to clean Kali Bein River before Gurupurab
News this week Swati Bansal posted 5 years 1 month ago
Aerial view of a Khazan in the Zuari river, Goa.
Centre all set to sustain country's ODF status
Policy matters this week Swati Bansal posted 5 years 1 month ago
A toilet constructed under Swachh Bharat Mission (Source: IWP Flickr photos)
Monsoon withdrawal delayed; more extreme weather events the new trend
News this week Swati Bansal posted 5 years 1 month ago
Image used for representational purposes only. Image source: India Water Portal on Flickr
Water levels in major reservoirs rise to 85 percent of overall capacity: CWC
News this week Swati Bansal posted 5 years 1 month ago
Narmada river in Madhya Pradesh (Source: IWP Flickr photos)
Manual scavenging is inhumane: SC
Policy matters this week Swati Bansal posted 5 years 1 month ago
Despite the ban, manual scavenging continues. (Image courtesy: The Hindu)
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