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Karnataka farmers cope as wells fail
Teaser: A study looks at how households adapt to slow-moving environmental changes such as groundwater depletion.Like in many parts of India, Karnataka’s groundwater is a vital source of irrigation...
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Whose forests, whose rights?
Teaser: While forest bureaucracy has been trying to undermine reforms in forest governance in India, the need for community level forest governance is more urgent than ever.India’s forest sector, at...
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The Karnataka State Water Policy 2019
Teaser: The Karnataka Jnana Aayoga (KJA) set up a Task Group to draft a new water policy for Karnataka in December 2017 and the report is now in public domain. What are the suggestions that the report...
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India’s food systems in transition
Teaser: A recent book looks at solutions to the various obstacles that impede India’s various food sub-systems.A recent book ‘Transforming Food Systems for a Rising India’ by the Tata-Cornell Institute...
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Call for proposal for research study on groundwater in Punjab
CIPT and Hindustan Unilever Foundation is implementing a project to seek solutions for responsible water use and long-term viability of agriculture in Punjab. About the project:Farmers in Punjab...
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Climatic shocks wreak havoc on the Mahanadi delta
Teaser: Much of the Mahanadi's deltaic coast is experiencing varying degree of erosion, a situation which is expected to worsen by 2050.The Mahanadi delta in Odisha is a composite delta fed by water,...
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Micropollutants in groundwater, a grave concern
Teaser: A study finds that a number of locations in the country have high concentrations of micropollutants in groundwater posing a risk to health and environment.Groundwater pollution due to organic...
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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...
View ArticleConference on Approaches to Shaping Climate Resilient Agriculture
A conference on 'Approaches to Shaping Climate Resilient Agriculture' to be held on 28th February, 2020, at The Lalit Ashok, Bengaluru. A conference on “Approaches to Shaping Climate Resilient...
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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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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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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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