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December 16, 2022
Water Quality Management Course - Not just a training program
In this article, we will understand how the WQM course is continuing to influence the needs of learners that come from diverse backgrounds. The course model also offers core insights to many others who would like to engage in a virtual training program.
During a WQM course, a field team member from INREM facilitating a demonstration
September 9, 2022
Creating jobs while managing air quality
Highlights from a new report released by iFOREST
An old coal-fired power plant has been dumping vast quantities of ash out in the open for many years. (Image: Lundrim Aliu/ World Bank; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
September 5, 2022
Rivers of Bengaluru: A map-infographic reflects the rivers’ state
In an attempt to present a perspective on how rivers are used and abused, a map of the Bengaluru rivers illustrate how waste flows through natural river corridors, polluting the rivers and altering their status.
Vrishabhavathi river flow at Thagachguppe Bridge, Kumbalgodu (Image Source: Paani.Earth)
August 27, 2022
Himalayan lakes can potentially become long-term sinks of microplastics
Study looks at microplastic types in lakes of Ladakh
(Vinay Goel, Wikimedia Commons)
August 19, 2022
Polluted water, hitchhiking microbes and the hidden threat of cholera in India
Better access to clean water coupled with health education to bring about changes in behaviour are critical to prevent exposure to dangerous cholera bacteria that lurk in untreated waters.
The hidden threat of cholera in India (Image Source: IWP Flickr photos)
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)
Seed of doubt
While several studies confirm that GM crops can have serious impact on the safety of both humans and environment, the government is going ahead with GM mustard.
Amita Bhaduri
Posted on 21 Jun, 2017 05:30 PM

Signs of mustard aphid, a key pest of the mustard crop appeared predictably in November last year in Dinesh’s farm. Drifting across the open green fields, it landed on the tender leaves of the mustard crop. “It sets in November during the flowering and pod bearing stage of the crop and lasts till January.
Opposition to GM mustard intensifies in India. (Image: Swadeshi Kheti)
Stringent punishment for polluting Ganga
Policy matters this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 13 Jun, 2017 09:49 AM

Strict punishments proposed for polluting Ganga river
Ganga river at Kachla, Uttar Pradesh. (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)
Maharashtra farmers get farm loan waiver
News this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 13 Jun, 2017 09:18 AM

Maharashtra government announces farm loan waiver to genuine farmers
A farmer on his field. (Source: India Water Portal)
Clean Kali: All eyes now on government
The water of East Kali is heavily polluted. It would hopefully change with the NGT taking notice of it.
Amita Bhaduri
Posted on 03 Jun, 2017 07:58 AM

Rampura, situated in Bulandshahr district in western Uttar Pradesh, is one of the 1,200 villages on the banks of the 300-km long East Kali, a tributary of the Ganges. The river is named after goddess Kali who, according to the Hindu mythology, is fierce and fights evil by ingesting it.
The polluted Kali river. (Image source: Neer Foundation)
Nainital lake drying up, human activities to blame
News this week
Aarti Kelkar Khambete
Posted on 30 May, 2017 11:52 AM

Nainital lake is drying up, environmentalists concerned
A view of the Nainital lake. (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
A village becomes water rich
How restoration of traditional ponds, rainwater harvesting and wastewater treatment saved a village from water scarcity.
Hiren Kumar Bose
Posted on 26 May, 2017 05:05 PM

Located in Uttar Pradesh’s Baghpat district, with vast agricultural fields growing sugarcane, rice, wheat, jowar, chana and all kinds of seasonal vegetables, Dhikoli in Pilana tehsil comes across as a bustling and prosperous village.
A johad after restoration.
NGT serious about Yamuna revitalisation project
Policy matters this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 23 May, 2017 11:22 AM

Rs 5000 fine on those dumping waste on Yamuna floodplains
Garbage piled up near the Yamuna river. (Source: IWP Flickr Photo)
UP rivers have poor quality water, reveals audit
News this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 23 May, 2017 10:17 AM

Audit reveals poor quality of water in UP rivers
Polythene bags and solid waste left behind the Ganga river in Allahabad. (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)
Karnataka women to tackle water woes
News this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 16 May, 2017 10:03 AM

Women in drought-hit Karnataka takes on the task to revive lakes
Women on a mission to tackle water woes. (Source: IWP Flickr photos)
The dirty picture
A hard-hitting documentary film ‘Kakkoos’ looks at the politics behind the banned practice of manual scavenging and how the civil society connives to keep it alive.
Amita Bhaduri
Posted on 12 May, 2017 11:27 AM

Kakkoos, a compelling documentary film on manual scavenging in Tamil Nadu is all about showing the practice as it is without any filter.
Manual scavenging is a caste issue. (Image: Divya Bharathi, Facebook)
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