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Colourful fabrics lead to murky waters
Teaser: The textile printing cluster at Sanganer near Jaipur presents a Catch-22 situation on the right to polluting free water versus the right to livelihoods.Amanishah nallah flowing through...
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Catching rain in the land of "too much water"
Teaser: Rainwater harvesting in a school in Jorhat, Assam helps address water quality issues, improves attendance and serves as an example for others in the area to fight arsenic and fluoride...
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Europe's Rhine river inspires the Ganga revival
Teaser: News this week Ganga clean-up takes its inspiration from the Rhine riverIndia is planning to apply the success model of the Rhine river, which was one western Europe's most polluted rivers, to...
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Okhla Bird Sanctuary takes a backseat to real estate development in Noida
Teaser: Policy matters this weekCentre approves bringing down protected zone around Okhla Bird Sanctuary from 10 km to 1The Environment Ministry has approved the draft notification that proposes an...
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The curious case of Kolkata's missing water bodies
Teaser: 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.Mohit...
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Roundtable Conference on 'Innovations in Catalysing Interventions and Data...
Roundtable Conference will includes a book launch of 'Is it really clean? Creating a WASH Index'About the conferenceThe deliberations for the Roundtable have been designed to enumerate, appraise and...
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Water poverty in a Mumbai slum: The importance of quantity and reliability of...
Teaser: Water service delivery failures can negatively impact household economy, employment, education, quality of life, social relationships, community cohesion, and people’s sense of political...
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Water problems with quality and access plague Sambalpur, Odisha
Teaser: Groundwater in Talabeda village in Sambalpur, Odisha has high concentrations of iron but more urgently, its water supply system is dysfunctional for the last 2 weeks due to electricity...
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Kaun kitne paani mein: Movie review
Teaser: A Hindi film set in a water starved locale in Odisha asks, "Can water be bartered for love?"‘Kitna shaant hai ye paani, aur iske liye yeh rajniti’ (the water is so still, yet there is politics...
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Rajasthan's micro saviours need macro plans
Teaser: North Rajasthan is making good use of subsidies for micro irrigation and solar water pumps but can this sustain?As we leave behind the smooth, straight drive of NH 89 and take a dirt path that...
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Why a right to sanitation is necessary
Teaser: The Millenium Development Goals aimed to halve the number of people with no access to water & sanitation. "Who are these people?", asks Leo Heller of the UN Office for Human Rights.Indian...
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Groundwater: A few ignored issues
Teaser: 'Does the root of India's groundwater problem lie in our Constitution, National Water Policy or the lack of an integrated approach?', asks KG Vyas former advisor to the Rajiv Gandhi Watershed...
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India's groundwater: Invisible water, visible crisis
Teaser: News this weekMassive national effort needed to resolve India's depleting groundwaterGroundwater contributes to nearly 85% of India's drinking water security, 60% of agriculture needs and 50%...
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Sunderbans and Siachen glacier to become trans-boundary protected area
Teaser: Policy matters this weekSunderbans and Siachen glacier proposed to be recognised as a trans-boundary protected areaThe Sunderbans between India and Bangladesh and the Siachen Glacier between...
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Training Programme on ‘Enabling a Digital India: Using GIS'
TARA Livelihood Academy (TLA) has announced a two day training programme on ‘Enabling a Digital India: Using Geographical Information System (GIS)’ in New Delhi.Register now or nominate your team...
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India Industry Water Conclave & 3rd edition of FICCI Water Awards
FICCI is organizing the India Industry Water Conclave at New Delhi, in association with HSBC and has also instituted the Annual Water Awards to recognize efforts in water management.The Conclave...
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Access to water data: Implications for transboundary relations in the Ganges...
Teaser: Despite the enactments of RTI laws and insistence for openness in the government, access to information regimes on transboundary rivers has not changed at a fundamental level in South...
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Nepal earthquake affected women more than men
Teaser: Disadvantaged groups suffered greater death, injury and livelihood asset losses. Dr Bimala Rai Paudyal, Hon’ble Member Planning Commission of Nepal says it is possible to reduce this...
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No more dam approvals until e-flow report is out: Water Ministry
Teaser: Policy matters this week No approval of dams until e-flow report is out: Water Ministry to CWCThe Ministry of Water Resources has ordered the Central Water Commission (CWC) not to grant any...
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Bisalpur revisited--10 years after protesters were shot, killing 5
Teaser: Despite many plans, neither rural nor urban are water secure thanks to the Bisalpur Dam since it was constructed in 2007. Ten years ago five farmers were shot protesting the diversion of waters...
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