Maharashtra

Rains bring relief to Chennai's water security but expose city's under-preparedness
News this week Posted on 16 Nov, 2015 09:42 PM

Heavy rain water logs Chennai and other parts of Tamil Nadu

A water logged street (Source: IWP Flickr photos)
Right to water and sanitation: Looking beyond legal and policy frameworks to sites of entitlement
While research, policy and practice debates routinely talk about the human right to sanitation and water, there is little grasp of how these are translated into local understandings of entitlement. Posted on 16 Nov, 2015 03:09 PM

Increasing concerns over the consequences of inadequate urban sanitation and water with regard to poverty, health, livelihoods, and education have spurred global declarations on the human right to sanitation and water. However, the social and spatial heterogeneity of urban poverty is often missing in global policy debates.

An illegal settlement (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
More people should use this zero sewage discharge toilet
The three-decade old 'Gramkranti Eco-Bio Toilet' doesn't pollute or need a septic tank or a sewage network. In fact, its output is a nutrient-rich liquid that can be used as a pesticide! Posted on 13 Nov, 2015 08:46 PM

Toilets need a septic tank or a connection to a sewage network, enough water to clean and flush, and regular maintenance to ensure proper functioning--except if it's the '

The team: Sanjay Joshi (left) and Ravindra Ganorkar (Source: Nivedita Khandekar)
Mansarovar or Gaumukh: Which is the source of the Ganga?
News this week Posted on 03 Nov, 2015 12:11 PM

NIH scientists to probe if Mansarovar is the source of Ganga

Bhagirathi river at its source, Gaumukh (Source: IWP Flickr Photo)
Environment Ministry to review Critically Polluted Areas
Policy matters this week Posted on 26 Oct, 2015 09:57 PM

Environment Ministry gets strict towards the compliance of green norms

CSEB power plant in Korba (Source: IWP Flickr Photo)
Srinagar's Dal Lake shrinks by 36% in the last 37 years
News this week Posted on 26 Oct, 2015 09:43 PM

Study shows half of Srinagar's water bodies have disappeared in the past century

Dal Lake in Srinagar (Source: McKay Savage via Wikipedia)
Environment Ministry allowed to clear hydel projects in Uttarakhand, except in Alaknanda-Bhagirathi basins
Policy matters this week Posted on 20 Oct, 2015 07:10 PM

MoEFCC can approve hydel projects in Uttarakhand, except in Alaknanda-Bhagirathi river basins: SC

Bhagirathi river at its source, Gaumukh (Source: IWP Flickr Photo)
China operationalises one of the biggest dams on the Brahmaputra
News this week Posted on 20 Oct, 2015 07:01 PM

China's Zangmu Hydropower Project, one of the biggest dams on Brahmaputra, is operational

Brahmaputra river in Tibet (Source: Luca Galuzzi via Wikipedia)
National Watershed Management Project gets a go ahead
Policy matters this week Posted on 13 Oct, 2015 01:50 PM

Cabinet approves the National Watershed Management Project, worth Rs.2,142 crore

Irrigated fields of Uttarakhand (Source: IWP Flickr Photo)
Dolphins in the Ganga and its tributaries nearly doubles in 3 years
News this week Posted on 12 Oct, 2015 09:30 PM

Ganga and its tributaries, except the Ramganga show increased dolphin numbers

The Gangetic Dolphin (Source: Arati Kumar Rao)
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