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Amphan’s impact on farming and livelihood in Sunderbans
Teaser: Millions of people's homes were swept away and farmlands destroyed during cyclone Amphan in Sunderbans. The Amphan cyclone has disfigured the lives of people living in the Sundarbans. Houses...
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Monsoon experiences a countrywide deficit of 10 percent in July
Teaser: News this weekMonsoon 2020: Countrywide deficit of 10 percent in July; September may have heavy rainsAs per data from the India Meteorological Department, July experienced deficient rains due...
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Groundwater extraction: NGT gets strict with commercial entities
Teaser: Policy matters this weekNGT bans granting general permissions for groundwater extraction to commercial entitiesFinding no merit in CGWA’s plea that stringent curbs on groundwater use will have...
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Gender-sensitive response to the climate crisis
Teaser: Gender-transformative approaches are needed for climate adaptation, to lessen the stresses that force people to migrate. A crowd of people jostling by the ticket counter at Jhansi railway...
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Webinar Series - Critical Engagement with Floods in India
Water Conflict Forum is organizing a series of webinar from 10 September- 8 October, 2020 on regular intervals.About the webinar:In the eastern, north-eastern and northern parts of the country, the...
View ArticleIUKWC Virtual User Engagement Initiative 2020
The India UK Water Centre welcomes you to a free, online event to engage with new water research tools and methods that could contribute to your operational practice.IUKWC has put together a set of...
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Empowering, involving local communities crucial for reviving Yamuna: Study
Teaser: A user-friendly water quality index could be created to help riverine communities take informed decisions.There aren’t many studies on understanding the socio-economic impact of river...
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Nashik civic body frees Godavari using riverfront development funds
Teaser: News this weekA civic body frees a river instead of concretising it, for the first timeUnder the Centre’s ‘Smart Cities’ mission, funds were allocated to the Nashik Municipal Corporation for...
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Agriculture and food security challenges amid Covid-19
Teaser: The pandemic has bared our vulnerabilities and shaken our collective consciousness to focus on agriculture and rural economy.India has seen large scale rural-urban migration of people trying to...
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All hopes lost for the flood-hit in Bihar
Teaser: People in Bihar are struggling with the floods for a month now, while the government has turned a blind eye to their plight. “We went through a lot of trouble over the month. By God’s grace, we...
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Expression of Interest (Eol) for Sector Partner, Jal Jeevan Mission
National Jal Jeevan Mission (NJJM) seeks interest from foundations, trusts, NGOs, Community Based Organisations (CBOs), VOs, etc. to work closely with the mission as 'Sector Partner'.Many...
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Uttarakhand: Reaching the unreached
Teaser: PSI addresses the shortage of safe drinking water in remote Uttarakhand villages through a participatory community-based approach to springshed management.People in remote hamlets left out by...
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Satyagrah by the river calls for action against erosion
Teaser: River erosion, so intense, that the whole village is in danger. As the government’s help seems a distant dream, locals carry out Satyagrah to expose their plight to the authorities. Since last...
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Sanitation empowered her
Teaser: Community response to the slum sanitation improvement project hinges on grassroots leadership in a slum settlement in Dhenkanal.In a corner of the Kathagada locality in the Parhatiya Sahi slum...
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MNREGA helps a village in Bihar become flood proof
Teaser: United action of locals, wisdom of the village head and MNREGA help to deal with waterlogging in a village in Bihar.Harpur Bochha is a village in Vidyapatinagar block of Samastipur district of...
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Gendered impacts of COVID-19
Teaser: The pandemic affects rural women disproportionately with damaging impacts on their employment, health and security. COVID-19 has unleashed one of the greatest human tragedies of the...
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Overexploitation of groundwater highest in Punjab: Government
Teaser: News this weekPunjab no.1 in overexploitation of groundwater According to the information placed by the Department of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation in the ongoing...
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Jalyukt Shivar Abhiyan a low impact, high expenditure scheme: CAG
Teaser: Policy matters this weekJalyukt Shivar Abhiyan had a low impact in making Maharashtra drought free: CAGSlamming the implementation of the multi-crore Jalyukt Shivar Abhiyan, the Comptroller and...
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Towards data-driven district rural drinking water planning framework
Teaser: A mobile survey app developed using Kobotoolbox software helps gram sevaks in Maharashtra collect water service data village wise.Only about 29% of the 189 million rural households, in India,...
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The women sanitation champions of Angul
Teaser: Residents confronted with poor sanitation conditions come together and organise for effective sanitation service delivery in crowded, low-income neighbourhoods in Angul, Odisha.Sita Behera, the...
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