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City-dwellers can no longer ignore the destruction of coastal green corridors such as the mangrove forests. They can’t either leave all responsibility to the urban local bodies and government. They have to work with the city authorities on a climate resilient plan and also support the communitie

Biodiversity , Education , Environment , Forests , Governance , Opinions , Sustainable Development , Water / 04/17/2019

A message to Indian urban voters from forests, rivers and indigenous communities

It is high that the rural knowledge system on ecology reaches our urbanites for their own good. We have just made a small beginning in this regard. This is election season in India. There have been many surveys by various agencies to gauge the voters’ mood. In case of urban areas

Cities , Environment , Gender , Sustainable Development , Water / 04/01/2019

Time for a policy to declare ‘urban drought’ to end hardships of poor women in India

In fact, as we write this piece, India is battling with two extreme weather conditions in two different regions. According to just released IMD data, while the northern part of the country is experiencing an extended winter season, the southern region is already battling with heatwave conditio

Cities , Climate , Data & Reports , Environment , Featured , Science & Technology , Sustainable Development , Water / 02/27/2019

Climate’s ‘time bomb’ for world’s groundwater has some serious lessons for Indian cities

Extreme weather events such as droughts and heavy precipitation days are two of the major impacts of global warming. These events, whose frequency and intensities are increasing by the years, may make groundwater replenishment rate too slow in dry areas, a recent study published in Nature Climate Ch

Climate , Data & Reports , Disasters , Environment , Opinions , Sustainable Development / 01/29/2019

Climate Crisis: We only have 12 years to save ourselves, let’s act fast!

The year 2018 can be termed historic in terms of realisation of the ‘catastrophic’ climate crisis we are in. Never in the past had we been warned of the consequences of not addressing climate change in such clear terms. The landmark 1.5 degrees Celsius special report (SR 1.5) of the Intergovernm

Cities , Environment , Opinions , Sustainable Development , Water / 12/02/2018

Indian Cities need multi-pronged efforts to conserve groundwater

For more than two billion people across the world aquifers are the primary water source but the shocking reality is that key groundwater basins in all the inhabited continents are being drained.

Environment , Sustainable Development , Transport , Water / 10/31/2018

Count the ecological costs of national waterways project in India!

The National Waterways project should consider all ecological impacts and in an integrated manner along with all surface transport activities it has to engage in, and accordingly decide future courses of action. The National Waterways project is being pursued citing multiple advantages to humans, mo

Cities , Environment , Governance , Health , Sanitation , Sustainable Development , Waste / 09/08/2018

Garbage menace: Why should urban planners in India take the Court observations seriously?

Garbage dumping yards are piling up across the country. Our municipal bodies are dumping the solid wastes irresponsibly, and most of the times illegally, in such dumping grounds and many other open places including river beds, flood plains, abandoned water bodies, crop fields and nearby villages On

Cities , Data & Reports , Environment , Governance , Opinions , Resources , Sustainable Development , Water / 08/03/2018

India needs big policy push for treatment and reuse of urban wastewater

News of water scarcity fuels a lot of hue and cry in the nation, however when it comes to discussions about solutions we find very less engagement of people across all the sections of the society. It is an irony that when the Niti Ayog released its Composite Water Management Index (CWMI) 2018, the s

Cities , Environment , Governance , Sustainable Development , Waste , Water / 07/06/2018

Cities can lead Inter-state cooperation needed to clean up India’s polluted Rivers

There is no policy in India that promotes a holistic approach to conservation of our rivers. We depend on several institutions to safeguard our rivers, that are degrading fast with increased pollution load most of which comes from our cities. Pollution, a great threat to our rivers, however, does no

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