www.indiawaterportal.org

www.indiawaterportal.org

www.arghyam.org.

ABOUT ARGHYAM

Arghyam is a grant-making foundation with a focus on groundwater and sanitation. It aims to provide “Safe, sustainable water for all” and supports initiatives that enhance equity in access to water for all citizens of India. India Water Portal, which is funded and managed by Arghyam, is a collaborative effort, bringing together many organisations and individuals working on water.

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Water impacts us all but often, the stories that are told are written and understood only by experts. Want to get involved?

Contribute content, spread the word about IWP or volunteer in your neighbourhood. If you have some time and would like to lend us your valuable skills, join us wherever you are in India. Volunteering is flexible and is designed to be a learning experience for anyone interested in water or related themes.

It is a national knowledge portal for all things water, set up by Arghyam on the National Knowledge Com-mission’s recommendations in 2007. It covers issues that influence water or are related to it such as climate change, sanitation and food security. Water impacts us all but often, the stories that are told are written and understood only by experts. Our goal is to have these stories written, heard and understood by all.

Our distributed team engages with local individuals and organisations all over India to highlight and provide critical analyses on water-related issues. With about 1000 hours of travel between the team every month, we benefit greatly from our network and are able to reach out to people in remote areas to bring out unique local stories. In addition, we use the following online and offline sources:

WHAT IS INDIA WATER PORTAL (IWP)?

WHERE DO WE SOURCE OUR KNOWLEDGE FROM?

News, policy updates, reports, articles, discussions, data published online from sources such as government, academia, researchers,organisations, industry and practitioners.

Q&A (which gets half of our traffic) is driven by discus-sions from about 750+ users in 2013 alone. Our offline outreach / network includes about 300+ water experts and organisations as of 2013, spanning 23 states.

INTERNET

IWP’S ONLINE COMMUNITY

Through our network and partners, we receive original stories as well as updates of their work. We also curate already published material with permission from the authors.

PEOPLE &ORGANISATIONS

IWP is the single largest portal of its kind in India today with a strong user base that has repeat users. In 2013 alone, we reached about 90,000 users every month, with a peak of 130,000 users.

WHY COLLABORATE WITH IWP?

OUR WEEKLY NEWSLETTER REACHES MORE THAN 8000 INDIVIDUALS

TOUCHING 8000 FOLLOWERS ON TWITTER AS OF JANUARY 2014

20 MEDIA PARTNERSHIPS TILL DATE AND A NETWORK OF 500+ MEDIA PERSONS ACROSS INDIA

OUR CONTENT HAS BEEN REPUBLISHED BY OTHER PRINT AND ONLINE PUBLICATIONS, A FEW HUNDRED TIMES IN 2013 ALONE

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You! Whether you are a water expert looking for data about government initiatives or detailed reports on events, a curious citizen hoping to understand what the fuss is about water scarcity and water contamination or a student wanting to volunteer for a cause, you will find something on our Portal. You can even have your questions answered by posting on the Portal or browsing through our FAQs section.

WHO IS OUR AUDIENCE?

30 hydroelectric projects have been planned in Kinnaur district, Himachal Pradesh. There is an immense cost to the environment and to the residents but the government isn’t letting up.

The Sethusamudram canal might aid shipping traffic in the area but how will it impact the fisherfolk who totally depend on the sea and the island for their livelihoods?

The Umananda island in Assam, which is the smallest inhabited river island in the world, holds people and primates at par.

An innovative idea by a farmer in Chen-nimalai, Tamil Nadu lets farmers create their own liquid manure out of the cow dung and urine available in their own farms.

left: 100 MW Tidong-I project, Kinnaur HP

left: The fisherfolk of Dhanushkodi

below: Umananda, the smallest inhabited river island in the world

Above: Alagesan with the barrel used to ferment cow dung

Drilling the hills to devastation

Dhanushkodi: stuck between science and religion

Umananda island uncovered

An organic manure factory for Rs. 800 only

The MP government is proposing a nuclear project in Mandala district. Villagers are wary about promises to rehabilitate since similar promises are yet unfulfilled to the Bargi dam oustees since 1990.

right: Bargi dam affected Patha village, MP

Development or displacement?

Our articles contain both topical as well as feature stories, videos and photo essays about important happenings from around India. Those who crave data will find data from government reports and data shared by organisations in a clean, simple and workable format. We follow hundreds of sources and bring you a curated easy to read list of news and policy matters in a daily and weekly roundup.

WHAT KIND OF CONTENT DO WE FEATURE?