Amita Bhaduri

Corporate hand in sustainable WASH

While Swachh Bharat Mission is focused on improving sanitation in the country, an ODF India remains a distant dream. Can corporate contribution ease the sanitation challenges India faces? Amita Bhaduri posted 6 years 6 months ago

Without behaviour change, toilet infrastructure created will remain only structures that will never be used. (Image: India Water Portal)

Sewage management: Govt’s elephant in the room

Swachh Bharat Mission: Could the most ambitious cleanliness campaign in Indian history also be the most expensive failure? Amita Bhaduri posted 6 years 6 months ago

Sewage treatment plant in Kavoor, Mangalore installed under the Karnataka Urban Development and Coastal Environmental Management Project. (Image: Asian Development Bank)

Tackling fluorosis by following Nalgonda's lead

Engaging with the fluorosis problem in Nalgonda gave the FKAN a chance to understand the problem and apply the solutions nationally. Amita Bhaduri posted 6 years 7 months ago

Shifting to non-fluoride affected food and increased nutrients is necessary to deal with fluorosis (Image: Fluoride Knowledge and Action Network)

Saving Jhabua’s children from fluorosis

INREM Foundation’s work helped develop protocols on designing proactive action on safe water and nutrition to help mitigate fluorosis in Jhabua. Amita Bhaduri posted 6 years 7 months ago

Nutrition garden developed in Jhabua for sustainable nutrition and resistance from fluorosis among villagers.

Down in the dumps: Delhi’s waste pickers’ saga

A study by Action India provides insight into Delhi’s recycling nightmare and its unacknowledged waste pickers. Amita Bhaduri posted 6 years 7 months ago

Waste pickers face harrowing occupational hazards and are exposed to toxins in the absence of protective gear. (Image: Ted Mathys, 2009)

Mangar Bani: NCR's green patch calls for help

With the threat of urbanisation looming large, the sacred grove of Mangar Bani begs for attention. Amita Bhaduri posted 6 years 7 months ago

Mangar Bani, with its trees, plants, birds and animals, is an ecological hotspot but it is finding it hard to keep builders and land grabbers at bay. (Image: Pradip Krishen, Facebook)

Fluorosis detection: A step towards providing clean water

FKAN’s work on preparing an action plan for the fluoride-affected Remuna block in Balasore shows how proactive policy work can help highlight the issue. Amita Bhaduri posted 6 years 7 months ago

People became crippled in Balasore due to skeletal fluorosis. Image: FKAN

Centre fails to see the wood for the trees

The latest FSI report says India is getting greener. A closer look at the story behind the numbers says otherwise. Amita Bhaduri posted 6 years 8 months ago

India’s forest cover stands at 21.54 percent while its dense forest cover is about 12.26 percent, as per the State of Forest Report, 2017. (Image: Tridib Choudhury, Wikimedia commons, CC BY SA-4.0)

Islands float on Delhi lake

Floating wetlands have been constructed on Hauz Khas lake in an attempt to naturally restore it. Amita Bhaduri posted 6 years 8 months ago

Phytoremediation principle is used to convert Hauz Khas lake into a water purifying wetland ecosystem. (Image: Tarun Nanda)

Millions wait for toilets and water

While millions of people in India still wait for their share of water and toilets, this year's budget fails to give them any hope. Amita Bhaduri posted 6 years 8 months ago

The state of water supply and sanitation continues to be poor in India.

Harvesting rainwater effectively

An innovative project makes rainwater harvesting easier and more effective in certain areas of Mewat village with increased groundwater salinity. Amita Bhaduri posted 6 years 9 months ago

The innovation was introduced in a government school building in Untka village located in Mewat district of Haryana.

Dam of consequences

Despite controversies around the Pancheshwar dam proposal and the panic it is creating among the villages around, the project is progressing fast. Amita Bhaduri posted 6 years 9 months ago

The project is expected to submerge 11,600 hectares of mountain area.

Water issues: Take account of socio-cultural question

Prof. Frederic Landy, director, French Institute of Pondicherry speaks to India Water Portal on water and socio-environmental challenges. Amita Bhaduri posted 6 years 9 months ago

A small canal in Chanaute, Birendranagar, Nepal. (Photo: Janak Poudel (CC BY 4.0 SA)

What budget has for farm and rural sectors

There is a sharp rise in allocations for rural and agriculture sector in this budget. Amita Bhaduri posted 6 years 9 months ago

The budget has a slew of initiatives to revive the farm sector. (Image: Azhar Feder, Wikimedia Commons-CC-BY-SA-3.0)

Profiting from sustainable farming

Sustainable agro-ecological farming is one way to overcome the limitations of conventional farming. Green College shows us how to do it. Amita Bhaduri posted 6 years 10 months ago

Stubble burning banned, farmers stumped

While banning stubble burning is a positive step towards reducing air pollution in the Delhi-NCR sector, the farmers need support from the government to adopt measures to enable smooth crop rotation. Amita Bhaduri posted 6 years 10 months ago

A large amount of crop residues are available in western UP and most of these are burnt in the field (Image: Ed Dunens, Flickr Commons)

Meenachil river warriors shine

Meenachil Nadee Samrakshana Samithi wins the Bhagirath Prayas Samman for its efforts to save Kerala's Meenachil river from total destruction. Amita Bhaduri posted 6 years 11 months ago

The president and the secretary of the Meenachal Nadee Samrakshana Samithi receive the Bhagirath Prayas Samman 2017 award from justice Madan Lokur of the Supreme Court of India.

Is it worth the salt?

Unregulated salt production near Sambhar lake is not just causing health problems among salt workers, it is also depleting groundwater and ruining the ecosystem of the wetland. Amita Bhaduri posted 6 years 11 months ago

Ramachander Singh, a salt worker who has been raking salt for decades now at this salt pan or kyari dotting the lake bed of Sambhar, Rajasthan.

Does sanitation really matter to us?

Complete sanitation is important for everyone. A collective effort is needed to make it happen. Amita Bhaduri posted 6 years 11 months ago

An initiative to prepare women to be sanitation ambassadors to provide strength to sanitation drives in their villages.

For a better Bandi

Mahaveer Singh Sukarlai was awarded the Bhagirath Prayas Samman at the India Rivers Day 2017 for his valiant effort to safeguard the integrity of the Bandi river in Pali. Amita Bhaduri posted 6 years 11 months ago

Mahaveer Singh Sukarlai speaks at the India Rivers Day.