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Comment: The lurking danger of India’s dying dams and failing reservoirs

J Harsha Current projections of surface water security for India are outdated and inaccurate with crisis looming in the 21st century t is very encouraging to hear that India can currently store 257 billion cubic metres (BCM) of surface water in its reservoirs. Even more welcome is the prog

Rainforests: 11 things to watch in 2021

Rhett A. Butler 2020 was a rough year for tropical rainforest conservation efforts, as explained in Mongabay’s year-end wrap-up on rainforests. So what’s in store for 2021? Here are 11 things to watch. Mongabay Founder Rhett A. Butler reviews some of 11 key things to watch in the world of rainf

India’s Energy Policy needs Balancing Economic Growth with Human Development

Rudra Narayan Mishra India needs cheap but clean energy towards improving hygiene/sanitation, education, health care, and smoke free energy for cooking to reduce indoor air pollution which will improve living condition and well-being of all, especially women and children. Use of clean energy is a pr

Damming Brahmaputra: With mega-dam plans, China might end up hurting itself more than India

The true idea of a river is not of a single stream of water between two banks, but a nervous system of watery arteries and capillaries that form the circulatory system of a living ecosystem in a particular river basin. At first glance, it looks like another step towards the realisation of an old nig

Billionaires need to feed the hungry

Ikhtiar Mohammad While there are millions who cannot afford bread and butter even once a day, there are others who have ample wealth which is impossible for them to spend in their lifetime. “I cannot manage to feed my son even twice a day let alone paying for his medical treatment,” said Hasan

What’s killing us in international NGOs?

Ann Hendrix-Jenkins The dark side of international development needs to be dismantled, and then transformed by developing different systems that are humane and restorative. To do so we have to face up to our own responsibilities, call out wrongdoing when we see it, and foster a new generation of ING

The diabolically difficult mid-term review of funding programmes

Gordon Peake Trepidation within a donor or managing contractor about reputational damage to their brand is palpable. Success in promotion rounds and winning new contracts depended upon hawking achievements, not tarrying on missteps. No Ambassador or High Commissioner wants the contents of a page-tur

Social Distancing: Racism, Caste System, and Sanitation!

Samit Aich Racism and Caste discrimination are not the only two forms of social distancing that has been practiced – the list is a shamefully long one-gender, sexual orientation, economic, modern slavery, child labour… Let’s face it. This issue always existed. For a very large pop

Women’s portrayal through Media and technology: still a gloomy picture

In the long run, the abuse of science and technology is severely harming women and it is increasingly harder to compensate this by offering the emancipatory image of an inclusive public space driven by media and science. Women are not being able to utilize these benefits and remain disengaged due to

Why alluvial flood plains of north Bihar, India need alternative sanitation system

Flood is a recurring threat to the sustainability of open defecation free status in Bihar. Unique toilets, built on elevation, can show the way ahead The Bihar deluge is here again: Water levels in several rivers have risen dangerously and breached embankments at many places. North Bihar is the 

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