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UP's Banda exemplifies water conservation efforts

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Local women and men engaged in digging trenches (Source: IWP Flickr photos). Pic for representation only

Sixty river stretches found polluted in the northeast: CPCB

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A river in Assam (Source: IWP Flickr photos)

USD 450 million loan from the World Bank for Atal Bhujal Yojana

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Atal Bhujal Yojana aims to arrest the country's depleting groundwater levels (Source: IWP Flicke photos)

Mumbai lost 71 percent of wetlands in last four decades: Report

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The pink guests of Sewri wetland, Maharashtra (Source: IWP Flickr photos)

Jal Jeevan Mission receives Rs 11,500 crore allocation in Budget 2020-21

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Women filling water from a tap (Source: IWP Flickr photos)

Ramsar tag granted to ten more wetlands

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A wetland in Punjab (Source: IWP Flickr photos)

Monitoring guidelines for sand mining released

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Illegal sand mining continues in the country unabated (Source: IWP Flickr photos)

Increased river traffic threatens Gangetic dolphins

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The Gangetic Dolphin (Source: Arati Kumar Rao)

Cauvery riverfront development plan gets an approval

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Cauvery river at Hogenakal, Karnataka (Source: IWP Flickr Photos via Claire Arni and Oriole Henri)

Water-related crime doubles in India: Report

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Water-related crime doubles in India (Image Source: Sourabh Phadke)

Government notifies new wetland conservation rules

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Deepor Beel, a wetland in Assam (Source: IWP Flickr photos)

Godavari, Krishna rivers will not be linked

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Prakasam Barrage across Krishna river (Source: Subhash Chandra via Wikipedia)

2019 was the seventh warmest year on record since 1901: IMD

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2019 was the seventh warmest year on record in 118 years (Photo: IWP Flickr photos)

Centre approves Atal Bhujal Yojana to improve groundwater management

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An irrigation well at Randullabad, Maharashtra. (Image source: India Water Portal on Flickr)

India's composite score improves in SDG index with major success in water and sanitation

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Sustainable Development Goals adopted in 2015 as a part of the 2030 agenda. (Source: Wikipedia Commons)

Hydroponics may provide better agriculture solutions

Hydroponics offers opportunities to young farmers for startup business for the production of nutrient-rich spices, herbal and high value crops which has huge demand in the urban market. Swati Bansal posted 5 years 4 months ago

Hydroponics is the technique of growing plants without soil. Image source: India Science Wire

Centre holds green signal to Kalasa-Banduri project

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The Mandovi river disputed between Karnataka and Goa (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)

India has most pollution-related deaths in the world

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Delhi-NCR shrouded under toxic haze (Source: India Water Portal)

Parliamentary committee expresses disappointment over slow pace of Namami Gange

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The Ganga at Varanasi (Source: India Water Portal Flickr Photos)

Only one out of five river basins in the country resilient to climate change: Study

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Narmada river in Madhya Pradesh (Source: IWP Flickr photos)

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