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December 12, 2022
Why farmers are not adopting crop insurance in India?
Study looks at behavioral biases in crop insurance adoption
Adoption rate of crop insurance low in India despite government efforts (Image: PxHere, CC0 Public Domain)
September 13, 2022
Chaos in a concrete jungle
Heavy rains and floods have battered Bengaluru yet again. Uncontrolled and unregulated development and concretisation of the city that pays no heed to the ecology and hydrology of the region needs to stop!
Urban flooding in Bangalore (Image Source: Thejas via Wikimedia Commons)
August 11, 2022
India’s rivers in trouble due to high fertilizer load and heavy monsoons
This could lead to water quality crisis reinforcing the need for basin-specific management strategies
Around the world, more than a fifth of nitrogen released by human activity ends up in aquatic ecosystems (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
May 24, 2022
Droughts reduce India's GDP by 5 percent in twenty years
News this fortnight
India, vulnerable to droughts (Image: Pixabay; hbieser)
May 14, 2022
Assessment of climate change over the Indian region
Climate change is real. What are its implications for India? This book presents a first of its kind national forecast on the impact of global warming on climate in India.
Climate change is real. What does it mean for India? (Image Source: Robert Hensley/Wikimedia Commons)
March 29, 2022
India, in the hot seat!
The intensity and duration of heat waves is predicted to increase in India and human induced anthropogenic changes are to blame.
A man sits under the scorching heat of the sun in front of Amer fort in Jaipur (Picture courtesy: Prabhu B Doss, Flickr Commons: CC-By-NC-ND-2.0)
One in every two individuals will be living in water-stressed regions by 2050: Report
News this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 23 Mar, 2020 12:27 PM

World Water Development Report 2020: Tropical countries to be worst hit by water stress
Banks of the Ramganga river (Source: IWP Flickr photos)
Virtual water and water footprint
How much water do we consume directly and indirectly?
Ishwer Kale
Posted on 22 Mar, 2020 10:32 PM

Climate change and water scarcity in India
Food wastage also implies wastage of water (Image Source: WOTR)
Water, the first line of defence against climate change
A report by WaterAid calls for a tenfold increase in current levels of climate finance that goes to WASH services.
WaterAid India
Posted on 22 Mar, 2020 09:50 AM

Water insufficiency is a challenging problem globally with 1 in 10 people lacking a basic water pump or covered well close to home.
Shantilata uses a cloth to filter out the high iron content in the salty water, filled from a hand pump, in the village Sitapur on the outskirts of Bhadrak, Bhuvaneshwar, Odisha (Image: WaterAid/ Anindito Mukherjee)
Outreach of current disaster-related apps in India poor
Technology and crowdsourced data need to play a greater role in disaster management in India.
Vibhas Sukhwani
Rajib Shaw
Posted on 17 Mar, 2020 11:17 AM

With the rise in frequency and intensity of unexpected disasters, the need for effective communication technologies such as the use of social and mobile tools seems to be growing for responding to disaster situations in emergency, rescue and relief efforts.
Floods in Uttarakhand in 2013 severely damaged hundreds of villages across Uttarkashi, Rudraprayag, Chamoli and Tehri regions (Image: Oxfam International, Flickr Commons, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Media Fellowship for Climate Change Reporting in the Himalayan Region
TERI, supported by a grant from Internews' Earth Journalism Network, is providing a six-month media fellowship for climate change in the Himalayan Region.
Posted on 14 Mar, 2020 06:01 PM

About the fellowship:
Groundwater in 30 districts in Delhi-NCR contaminated, reveals 2019 data
News this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 12 Mar, 2020 02:31 PM

30 districts in Delhi-NCR had contaminated groundwater in 2019: Water Minister
A resident in Delhi with her extracted groundwater (Source: IWP FLickr photos)
UP's Banda exemplifies water conservation efforts
News this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 05 Mar, 2020 02:00 PM

Limca Book of Records recognises UP's Banda for water conservation efforts
Local women and men engaged in digging trenches (Source: IWP Flickr photos). Pic for representation only
Parasite – the film and India’s disaster management
How different populations face different levels of risk and vulnerability during disasters?
Chetna Verma
Posted on 25 Feb, 2020 02:36 PM

Parasite, the South Korean movie released in 2019 has gained attention worldwide especially after its historical win at the Oscars 2020. The film takes on two different worlds co-existing in a country but set apart by class and wealth.
A still from the movie Parasite (Image: Christiano Betta, Flickr Commons: CC BY 2.0)
Unravelling Kuttanad’s drinking water paradox
Floods such as in 2018 could take the situation downhill causing severe drinking water crisis.
Jayasree Vaidyanathan
Posted on 24 Feb, 2020 12:55 PM

Surrounded by vast expanses of water, the Kuttanad region in Alleppey district, Kerala faces severe drinking water scarcity due to infrastructure failure and civic body inaction.
Lack of sufficient quality water, poor pipe connectivity and frequent breakdown of existing pipelines are common in the area (Image: Jayasree Vaidyanathan)
Mumbai lost 71 percent of wetlands in last four decades: Report
News this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 09 Feb, 2020 07:11 PM

Among 22 cities in India, Mumbai has lost the maximum number of wetlands: WISA
The pink guests of Sewri wetland, Maharashtra (Source: IWP Flickr photos)
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