Drinking and other Domestic Uses

Swachh Bharat seems a distant dream

"The Kelo river has never been like this but in the last two decades, the economic growth in the region has spoiled the purity of the river", says eminent journalist  Shiv Rajpoot from Raigarh, who is also known as "Kelo man". He has twice traveled by foot, the 90 km stretch of the Kelo from its origin to its end.

The objectives of his two visits were to study and document:

Government to launch nationwide monitoring of toilet use, not construction

The Consultant position is based in the Practice Team at IIHS. The Practice Team is
responsible for providing cutting-edge and integrated solutions to India’s urban
development challenges by bringing together faculty and experts across diverse
domains of knowledge and practice; expose learners to real-life problems and
integrate the practice into academics and research.

India has almost 17% of the world's population and 4% of the global water resources – a situation that threatens to push it towards a water crisis in the coming years. To add to this, are other reasons such as:

States get a free hand towards the implementation of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan

Every school going child knows that the earth is called the Blue Planet, because nearly 70% of its surface is covered with water. All pictures of the earth show a blue green earth, dotted by land masses. So how would we explain the idea of water scarcity to them?

Social sector likely to get less funds in Union Budget 2015-16

Government admits that hydropower projects aggravated the Uttarakhand disaster

Latha Anantha of the Chalakudy Puzha Samrakshana Samiti (Chalakudy River Protection Forum) was awarded the Bhagirath Prayas Samman at the recently concluded India Rivers Week for her commendable work on safeguarding the integrity of the Chalakudy river in Kerala.