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Indian government looks to acquire land in Kashmir

India’s central government identified 15,000 acres in Kashmir – mostly next to rivers, streams and wetlands – for investors from outside the region Following New Delhi’s decision to scrap the semi-autonomous status of Jammu and Kashmir on August 5, 2019 and its subsequent conversio

A global ‘toilet revolution’ is underway – but it’s polluting water and ignoring the urban poor

Deljana Iossifova, University of Manchester; Purva Dewoolkar, University of Manchester, and Youcao Ren, University of Manchester It’s great that countries are backing the global drive for universal access to sanitation. But at the heart of these aims must be a desire to protect the environment and

Cities , Climate , Disasters , Water / 11/22/2019
A slum after the storm!

How prepared are urban poor to face climate change induced disasters? On the 10th of November, the morning after cyclone Bulbul passed through Odisha coasts, the fear of the storm was still reflecting on faces of people residing in Pandakudia slum in the outskirts of Bhubaneswar.  We visit

Colonial Hangover: Engineering a season of floods

Insurgent South Asian rivers breached embankments repeatedly, turning engineered floodplains into hydrological dystopias, but dams kept getting built, and embankments kept getting longer and higher In 13 states of India this year, the monsoon appeared in the form of floods. The same happened in the

Climate change ‘poses lifelong threat to children’s health’

Fatima Arkin Climate change is already damaging the health of the world’s children and threatens a lifelong impact unless countries meet the Paris Agreement targets to limit warming to well below 2˚C, according to a new study published in The Lancet. The study, which involves 35 global institutio

Rivers globally carry deadly pathogens: study

A global study on pathogens in rivers finds that rivers harbour dangerous levels of diarrhoeal disease-causing pathogens Diarrhoea is one of the leading killers of children under the age of five in developing countries. Diarrhoea is rampant in India, with diarrhoeal diseases being the most prev

South Sudan floods: 800,000 people at risk of disease and extreme hunger

Unusually heavy rainfall has hit 29 counties across the country, causing widespread displacement including in Akobo, Pibor and Lankien Houses have been destroyed and many areas are submerged and inaccessible. People have lost their crops and livestock and many schools and health clinics have been cl

Fishing villages dry up on the Indus

Akhtar Hafeez Dam construction and other upstream activities have left the fishing communities in Pakistan along the Indus with little to fish, and livelihoods that have dried up with the river The province of Sindh is grappling with an acute water shortage, a crisis which the government hopes to ad

Climate , Data & Reports , Resources , Water / 09/22/2019
The climate crisis is an oceans crisis: upcoming IPCC report

A stark warning on the state of the world’s oceans and frozen areas is expected from a landmark UN report, highlighting the urgent need for a global treaty to allow large-scale protection of the oceans. The process of finalising the UN Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Clim

A Cape Town lesson for Chennai and other Indian cities facing Day Zero

Day Zero is not necessarily the day when water availability will be zero.  In reality, the kind of water crisis our cities are already in, the Cape Town kind of measures need to be adopted with immediate effect.  On the 1st of August as I landed at Chennai airport, I was expecting some big

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