-TheWire.in With one of the highest undernutrition rates of children in urban areas, Delhi needs to tackle the issue of severely stunted children in the city who don't have access to proper infrastructure and facilities at local anganwadi centres. New Delhi: It is an early summer morning in North Delhi’s Kabir Basti. A dingy and crowded lane of the settlement, with puddles from Water leakages in broken pipes, opens up to a...

-The Indian Express Across these regions, where mitigation measures to tackle a grave Water and fodder scarcity had barely begun during the election campaign, BJP leaders had run a campaign almost entirely on issues of national security, the Pulwama attack and the Balakot airstrike. Mumbai/ Pune: Shrugging off the impact of a crippling drought, anger at slow drought relief measures and years of poor price realisations for most major farm produce,...

-The Hindu Say policymakers induce farmers to adopt incongruent crop pattern, causing Water crisis Pune: The Water crisis in Maharashtra is a “policy-induced failure”, according to economists and Water academics who have specifically warned of the ‘desertification’ of the parched Marathwada region in the near future. “It is the ecological illiteracy of policy-makers and the selfishness of the power elite in inducing farmers across Marathwada to adopt a crop pattern that is not...

-Hindustan Times Barmer district collector Himanshu Gupta said traditional Water bodies will be revived under MGNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act). Barmer: The Rajasthan government plans to revive traditional Water bodies to fight drinking Water crisis in drought-affected areas, officials said. In the absence of adequate monsoon rain, people have been depending on traditional Water bodies in remote desert areas of western Rajasthan. Barmer district collector Himanshu Gupta said traditional Water...

  The Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation (MoWR, RD & GR) in its latest report has identified arsenic hotspots across the country, most notably in the states of Assam, Bihar, Gujarat, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. Please consult chart-3 to get an idea about the geographical spread of arsenic hotspots in India. On the basis of arsenic concentration in the range 0.01-0.05 mg per litre...