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Best practices on flood resilience from Indian and global cities
Posted on 21 Dec, 2022 02:20 PMUrbanization in India has led to 31% of its total population residing in cities and urban areas contributing to 63% of the national GDP in 2011.
Safe drinking water in rural India: What do numbers hide?
Posted on 21 Dec, 2022 02:14 PMRecent data shows that drinking water coverage has improved considerably in India with 89 percent of the rural population having access to an improved water source within a round trip of 30 minutes.
River Sharavathi - under siege from microplastics
Posted on 16 Dec, 2022 01:32 PMRivers worldover are choking on plastic and transferring more than two million tonnes per year of microplastics (MPs) into the marine environment informs this paper titled 'Assessment of pollution and risks associated with microplastics in the riverine sediments of the Western Ghats: a heritage site in southern I
Water Quality Management Course - Not just a training program
Posted on 16 Dec, 2022 01:05 PMThe journey of the Water Quality Management (WQM) Course into a movement with over 1500 WaterQualityChampions’ (WQC) across the country is curious and exciting. The course is enabling participants into “Water Quality champions” that even the course creators did not anticipate. Hence, it demands a closer introspection - into what went behind.
Healthy soil critical to human health and for achieving SDGs
Posted on 16 Dec, 2022 11:46 AMAlthough India attained self-sufficiency in food production, realising zero hunger, good health, and no poverty remains a challenge.
Water storage in river basins dips in 2021, drier than normal conditions to blame: WMO
Posted on 15 Dec, 2022 05:57 PMSignificant drop in the volume of Ganga river water and groundwater in the river basin, reveals WMO report
Classifying rivers for setting up stone crushers is illegal: NGT to Uttarakhand government
Posted on 14 Dec, 2022 02:14 PMUttarakhand’s classification of rivers to set up stone crushers violates NGT Act
Mobilising communities for WASH
Posted on 13 Dec, 2022 04:49 PMConvened to mark the successful conclusion of the Women+Water Alliance project in select districts of Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra, U.S.
Why farmers are not adopting crop insurance in India?
Posted on 12 Dec, 2022 10:58 AMFarmers in India continue to face production risks due to climate abnormalities, resulting in low productivity and fluctuating agricultural incomes.
Assessing the health of river Ganga
Posted on 08 Dec, 2022 07:07 PMDams can bind and gag rivers
Structures such as locks, dams, barrages, and weirs are known to drastically reduce the longitudinal connectivity of rivers, impact downstream flow, and alter riverine ecosystems.