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In India, women often travel long distances to fetch water. This in turn affects school attendance for young girls, and has a domino effect on other development indicators. Women and girls are an important stakeholder to be considered in the design of interventions and programmes to ensure access to safe water for all.

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Not just surface water, pollution leads to deficit in dissolved oxygen in Ganga's riverbed sediment: Study

NGT takes a stand on Deepor Beel

Forced eviction ordered for more than one million tribals and forest-dwellers

In a decade, only a quarter of centrally funded major to medium irrigation schemes completed: Report

Plastic or non-biodegradable waste can prove to be highly fatal for terrestrial or land-based ecosystems as well as marine ones.

NGT slaps a fine of Rs 100 crore on TN government for failing to restore Chennai's waterways

World Bank to provide Rs 11,000 crore for dam safety

The Himalayas are often called the water towers of Asia because of the vast amount of water locked in the form of ice in thousands of glaciers there. But concerns relating to climate change have often put a question mark on future water availability from these glaciers.