Amita Bhaduri

Tackling water salinity in Mewat, Haryana

Lalit Mohan Sharma of Sehgal Foundation, Gurgaon speaks to India Water Portal about innovative solutions to sail through Mewat's water crisis. Amita Bhaduri posted 8 years 10 months ago

Tackling salinity in Mewat (Source: Lalit Mohan Sharma)

India needs to radically overhaul its water institutions

Can India draw some lessons from the Singaporean water story? Prof Asit Biswas, founder of the Third World Centre for Water Management in Mexico, talks to India Water Portal. Amita Bhaduri posted 8 years 10 months ago

India's water sector: Endemic corruption and public apathy (Source: K N Balraj, IWP Flickr Photos)

What it takes to clean India

A village school in Madhya Pradesh deals with the micro-realities of the area and gets out of a sanitation crisis. Amita Bhaduri posted 8 years 11 months ago

Sewage water filter assembly in the school

Sustainable practices in slash-and-burn lands in Nagaland

Jhum or shifting cultivation has been criticised regarding its ecological and economic impacts. UNDP takes on the challenge by introducing integrated farm development practices. Amita Bhaduri posted 8 years 11 months ago

Shifting cultivation lands (Source: Prashant N S, 2006, Wikimedia)

A pond comes to life

Hundreds of villagers pitched in to revive a village pond at Bapugaon, a village in Rajasthan, to make it water and food secure. Amita Bhaduri posted 9 years ago

More than just physical rehabilitation of a water body, says Kalyan ji of Bapugaon

Polavaram--solution or problem?

Dam history will be repeated with the construction of the Polavaram Dam. Unfortunately, other options that could have been looked into such as reduction of height, were ignored. Amita Bhaduri posted 9 years ago

Papi kondalu gorge on Godavari (Source: Pranay Raj, Wikimedia Commons)

Bisalpur revisited--10 years after protesters were shot, killing 5

Despite many plans, neither rural nor urban are water secure thanks to the Bisalpur Dam since it was constructed in 2007. Amita Bhaduri posted 9 years 1 month ago

Kisan Sewa Samiti, Chaksu struggling for drinking water allocation from Bisalpur dam (Source: CECODECON)

Kaun kitne paani mein: Movie review

A Hindi film set in a water starved locale in Odisha asks, "Can water be bartered for love?" Amita Bhaduri posted 9 years 1 month ago

Water scarcity becomes a source of conflict between two villages (Source: Facebook)

The curious case of Kolkata's missing water bodies

The city which has close to 5000 water bodies has lost 44% in the last two decades, says Mohit Ray of Vasundhara, a group working on environmental and human rights issues in an interview. Amita Bhaduri posted 9 years 1 month ago

Bhukailash - a water body in Kolkata; Image: Mohit Ray

Colourful fabrics lead to murky waters

The textile printing cluster at Sanganer near Jaipur presents a Catch-22 situation on the right to pollution free water versus the right to livelihoods. Amita Bhaduri posted 9 years 1 month ago

Bleaching, dyeing and printing of cottons causes water pollution at Sanganer

Delhi’s Bhalaswa landfill contaminates groundwater

The landfill, which was supposed to be shut down in 2010 once the trash reached a height of 22m still remains functional at a height of 41m, polluting groundwater and areas around it. Amita Bhaduri posted 9 years 1 month ago

Pushpa has been leading the struggle of Bhalaswa residents to clean water

Flawed embankment strategy converts Bihar into a watery grave

The engineering solutions put in place to tackle the issue of floods has created more problems than solutions in Bihar, says Dinesh Mishra in an interview. Amita Bhaduri posted 9 years 2 months ago

Floods in Bihar (Source: Usha Dewani, IWP)

Hindon clean-up, a prerequisite to cleaning the Ganga

The pollution rates of the river Hindon are alarming. Despite work by conservation groups, the efforts on the part of the government to fix the problem remain uncertain. Amita Bhaduri posted 9 years 2 months ago

The polluted Hindon (Source: Hindi Water Portal)

What are the odds of a dam burst?

The recent earthquake in Nepal has pointed fingers yet again at the much neglected area of dam safety. Will that push India to put in place a comprehensive law that addresses this? Amita Bhaduri posted 9 years 3 months ago

Sardar Sarovar Dam (Source: Wikimedia Commons)

Groundwater as Commons demonstrated in Mahbubnagar, Telangana

Farmers agreed to pool their groundwater to create a water sharing network. Result? Crops were saved, irrigated area was doubled, and grain production increased by 240%! Amita Bhaduri posted 9 years 3 months ago

Collectivising groundwater for protecting rainfed crop; Source: WASSAN

Udaipur's water threatened by India's largest reserve of phosphate

Pollution from the Jhamarkotra mines poses a threat to waters near and far, and also causes severe health issues in the miners. Why is there no post facto environment impact assessment? Amita Bhaduri posted 9 years 3 months ago

Piles of overburden (waste) dumped near the mine pits of Jhamarkotra

Farmers field school in Jharkhand shows the way in integrated farming

The School has taught farmers how to use waste from their farms as inputs in their farming system. Other organic practices have improved the soil profile and water holding capacity of the fields. Amita Bhaduri posted 9 years 3 months ago

Two states and a dam row

Latha Anantha of River Research Centre, Thrissur speaks to India Water Portal on the latest developments on the Mullaperiyar dam controversy. Amita Bhaduri posted 9 years 3 months ago

Mullaperiyar reservoir (Source: Sibiperiyar, Wikimedia Commons)

Women assert their space under the sun

The face of female labour is changing under MGNREGA, a programme where water conservation is given the highest priority in the choice of work. What are its implications? Amita Bhaduri posted 9 years 5 months ago

Satya’s position as a supervisor is valued by all

Niyamagiri hills get temporary respite from Vedanta

Violation of the Environment Protection Act, the Forest Conservation Act and the Forest Rights Act put an end to Vedanta's bauxite mining plans but for how long? Amita Bhaduri posted 9 years 5 months ago

The hills and the streams are their soul