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Monitoring guidelines for sand mining released
Teaser: Policy matters this weekGuidelines to monitor illegal sand mining releasedFor the first time, the Environment Ministry has released Enforcement and Monitoring Guidelines for Sand Mining 2020 to...
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A two days training-cum-workshop on Water Resources Management for NGOs and Media Personnel is planned at National Water Academy, Pune during 26-27 March 2020.Brief Content:Overview of Water Resources...
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Mountain women bear the brunt of climate change
Teaser: There is a need to enable a conducive action oriented environment to address entrenched gendered vulnerabilities.Climate change impacts are disproportionate and influence lives and livelihoods...
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What's there for water in the budget kitty?
Teaser: Budget fails to allocate enough to turn the rhetoric of tap water to each household into reality. Union Finance Minister Ms. Nirmala Sitharaman presented the decade's first union budget in the...
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Perils, politics and prospects of groundwater in India
Teaser: How can India change the game on groundwater management to deal with its overexploited aquifers? After independence, India was largely food insecure but post Green Revolution around the 1970s,...
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Managing commons: Need and challenges
Teaser: How can technology, knowledge and capacity creation help in management of commons?Common pool resources, popularly known as “commons”, are those resources which are accessible to the whole...
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Jal Jeevan Mission receives Rs 11,500 crore allocation in Budget 2020-21
Teaser: Policy matters this weekGovernment allocates Rs 11,500 crore to Jal Jeevan Mission for 2020-21In the budget 2020-21, the Finance Ministry has allocated Rs 11,500 crore to the Jal Jeevan Mission...
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Mumbai lost 71 percent of wetlands in last four decades: Report
Teaser: News this weekAmong 22 cities in India, Mumbai has lost the maximum number of wetlands: WISAAccording to a study by non-government organisation Wetlands International South Asia (WISA), India...
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Budget 2020: Is the allocation enough to meet the piped water dream
Teaser: Experts discuss if the budget has enough funds for water access and security.Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s budget announcement on February 1, 2020 made a push for piped rural drinking...
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Decoding budget 2020
Teaser: Is the budget a bummer? Experts speak at a panel discussion organised by CBGA.“Every single number in the budget, be it receipts or expenditure is a lie. The budget numbers can no longer be...
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Overcoming heavy odds to emerge as a WATSAN model
Teaser: How women came together in a Junagadh village to tackle drinking and domestic water shortage effectively.Kotda village provides an inspiring example of how a village suffering from teething...
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Decentralised groundwater governance to deal with the groundwater crisis
Teaser: Decentralised groundwater governance frameworks that integrate democratic institutional mechanisms are needed to deal with the current groundwater crisis in India.The challenges to sustain...
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Tangled bones, children unable to move and lives cut short
Teaser: Fluorosis has turned out to be a chronic public health problem, with millions of people at high risk due to lack of clean drinking water.I am in the middle of nowhere, out on a field visit to...
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Community water purification system in a Delhi urban slum
Teaser: Women swipe clean drinking water through an automated dispensing unit at the Lalbagh slum.It’s a dull reality that the state of water in the urban slum of Lalbagh near Azadpur in north Delhi...
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USD 450 million loan from the World Bank for Atal Bhujal Yojana
Teaser: Policy matters this weekWorld Bank to provide USD 450 million loan for Atal Bhujal YojanaThe Centre and the World Bank have signed a USD 450 million loan agreement to support the Atal Bhujal...
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Sixty river stretches found polluted in the northeast: CPCB
Teaser: News this weekNortheast has 60 polluted river stretches: CPCBAccording to the latest State of India’s Environment report, there are 60 polluted river stretches based on biochemical oxygen...
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Unravelling Kuttanad’s drinking water paradox
Teaser: Floods such as in 2018 could take the situation downhill causing severe drinking water crisis. Surrounded by vast expanses of water, the Kuttanad region in Alleppey district, Kerala faces...
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Parasite – the film and India’s disaster management
Teaser: How different populations face different levels of risk and vulnerability during disasters?Parasite, the South Korean movie released in 2019 has gained attention worldwide especially after its...
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Suffering in silence: Migrant cane cutters of Maharashtra
Teaser: Overworked, poorly paid and deprived of any rights, migrant cane cutters, especially women are most vulnerable and continue to suffer from a number of health and security risks.Maharashtra is...
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The miserable plight of sanitation workers
Teaser: A report highlights the dangers for the millions of people who clean toilets, sewers and septic tanks the world over and calls for urgent action. Many of the challenges sanitation workers face,...
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