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Delhi stands up for its trees
As Delhi gears up for expansion, concerns regarding the environment and the poor continue to be overlooked.
Amita Bhaduri
Posted on 20 Aug, 2018 11:28 AM

Recently, Delhi saw an urban Chipko movement of sorts with the people coming out in large numbers with a single agenda—save the last of the trees left in the city. In the famous Chipko movement of 1973, local communities in Tehri Garhwal, Uttarakhand emblematically embraced trees to demand an end to deforestation through forest exploiting contractors.
People of Delhi came out in large numbers recently and kick-started a movement to save trees. (Image: Delhi Trees SOS)
In the business of transformation
A toilet complex managed by college students sets an example of a sustainable model for accessing sanitation.
Amita Bhaduri
Posted on 02 Aug, 2018 04:11 PM

Pramod Kumar Singh, the caretaker of a community toilet complex in northwest Delhi’s Sultanpuri area is proud about its upkeep. The complex, built by the Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB) and inaugurated in 2016, is well maintained with beautiful landscaping, posters and wall art.
Delhi Street Art has painted cartoons and caricatures on the walls to attract people to the community toilet complex at Sultanpuri. (Image: Project Raahat, Enactus)
Delay in 16 major irrigation projects, reports CAG
Policy matters this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 24 Jul, 2018 11:04 AM

CAG pulls up water ministry for delay in 16 major irrigation projects
Ganga river at Kachla, Uttar Pradesh. (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)
Chennai floods was man-made disaster: CAG
Policy matters this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 17 Jul, 2018 12:06 PM

CAG blames TN government for Chennai floods in 2015
Chennai floods in 2015 (Source: IWP Flickr photos)
Micro loans, mega gains
MHT helps reduce drudgery of women in a resettlement colony by providing finances for water and sanitation facilities.
Amita Bhaduri
Posted on 11 Jul, 2018 11:07 AM

Rabia Khatun (45) has been living in the Savda resettlement colony since 2006, the year it was established. All the residents of her previous squatter settlement at Nanglamachi in central Delhi were evicted and resettled at Savda, 50 km away.
MHT organises poor women around habitat issues in a resettlement colony in Delhi. (Pic: India Water Portal)
Will boats float on Yamuna?
Yamuna water taxi project could cut down the travel time and congestion on Delhi roads. But does the river have enough water for it?
Amita Bhaduri
Posted on 23 May, 2018 11:38 AM

Here's some good news for the people of Delhi. If the Centre is to be believed, Delhi is going the Kochi way and Yamuna waters will keep the traffic burden off the road much like Kochi’s backwaters and rivers.
Yamuna in Delhi (Image: Wikimedia commons)
Down in the dumps: Delhi’s waste pickers’ saga
A study by Action India provides insight into Delhi’s recycling nightmare and its unacknowledged waste pickers.
Amita Bhaduri
Posted on 10 Apr, 2018 04:05 PM

Eight-year-old Meera (name changed) got ill after eating filthy food remains from a dump at Mansarovar park in Delhi. Children like her work in filthy environments, rummaging through hazardous waste with bare hands and feet. They play in these dumping ground strewn with syringes, scrap iron, rotting waste, solid and liquid household waste.  
Waste pickers face harrowing occupational hazards and are exposed to toxins in the absence of protective gear. (Image: Ted Mathys, 2009)
Centers for International Projects Trust (CIPT) looking for summer interns
Posted on 09 Apr, 2018 03:06 PM

Duration: May - June 2018

Number of Interns – 3 

Organisation: Centers for International Projects Trust 
AN EXCITING OPPORTUNITY WITH CEEW: SENIOR PROGRAMME LEAD - WATER
Posted on 02 Apr, 2018 03:16 PM

Would you like to work with India’s leading international think tank? Are you looking for productive engagements and leadership opportunities while making your mark in the water sector?
Mangar Bani: NCR's green patch calls for help
With the threat of urbanisation looming large, the sacred grove of Mangar Bani begs for attention.
Amita Bhaduri
Posted on 27 Mar, 2018 02:39 PM

According to the local legend, Mangar Bani, a green patch between Faridabad and Gurgaon, was home to a Baba (a holy man), Gudariya Das Maharaj around 500 years ago. Popular among the local Gujjar herdsmen, the dominant community of the area, the Baba asked them to treat this forest as a sacred grove, the forested abode of a local deity.
Mangar Bani, with its trees, plants, birds and animals, is an ecological hotspot but it is finding it hard to keep builders and land grabbers at bay. (Image: Pradip Krishen, Facebook)
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