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Global freshwater fish species under grave threat: IUCN

News this week

Swati Bansal

Posted on 24 Jul, 2019 05:01 PM

Alarming decline in global freshwater fish species: IUCN

Freshwater fish species across the world under grave threat (Source: IWP Flickr photos)

Dibang hydel project gets approval

Policy matters this week

Swati Bansal

Posted on 24 Jul, 2019 04:27 PM

Cabinet approves Dibang hydel project in Arunachal Pradesh

People protesting Dibang Hydropower Project (Source: SANDRP)

Gender in hydropower development: A long way to go

A study finds that hydropower organisations in India continue to maintain a culture of hierarchy, follow masculine norms and are insensitive to the needs of women and the marginalised.

Gitta Shreshta

Deepa Joshi

and Florian Clement

Posted on 22 Jul, 2019 04:44 PM

Large dams, back in the game?

Hirakud, India's oldest dam (Image source: India Water Portal on Flickr)

Rajasthan's ancient yet ever-evolving water heritage

A book documents the enormous range of water harvesting systems still in use in Rajasthan.

Amita Bhaduri

Posted on 21 Jul, 2019 11:10 AM

The state of Rajasthan has an immense range of ancient and ingenious water harvesting systems, like the famous johads or step wells managed by communities in the arid Thar desert, which receives very low rainfall.

The design of Chand baodi (stepwell) in Abhaneri village, Rajasthan, was intended to conserve as much water as possible (Image: Unseen Horizons, Flickr Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0)

Floods grip Assam and Bihar

News this week

Swati Bansal

Posted on 17 Jul, 2019 01:54 AM

Bihar and northeast India reel under floods

People take a boat to cross the flood-ravaged Brahmaputra (Source: IWP Flickr photos)

Meghalaya draft water policy, Inter-State River Water Disputes (Amendment) Bill both get approval

Policy matters this week

Swati Bansal

Posted on 16 Jul, 2019 10:34 PM

Meghalaya's draft water policy gets approval

Karnataka and Tamil Nadu have been fighting over Cauvery water sharing for a long time (Source: Wikipedia Commons)

The many facets to the fluoride problem in Chikkaballapur, Karnataka

INREM Foundation and The Fluoride Network have worked in Chikkaballapur extensively, to battle the problem of fluoride contamination in groundwater.

Priya Desai

Posted on 11 Jul, 2019 03:26 PM

Chikkaballapur is a district in the state of Karnataka, just north of the capital Bengaluru. A peri-urban area that was once an agricultural centre for this region, today Chikkaballapur is facing a unique problem.

A can of 20 litres of RO filtered water costs around Rs. 20 in Chikballapur. Image credit: Karthik Seshan

Budget 2019 talks big on water

But have the crucial schemes received more money than last year? We talk to some experts in the water sector to find out.

Amita Bhaduri

Posted on 10 Jul, 2019 02:04 PM

Nirmala Sitharaman, Finance Minister alluded to gaon, garib and kisan as the centre of all policies of this government, while announcing a clutch of schemes aimed at the rural and urban poor.