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Stories by Basudev Mahapatra, a journalist from the eastern India, on Environment, Polity and Sustainability.
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Showing posts with label Water. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Water. Show all posts
May 12, 2019
Post Fani, Bhubaneswar Continues To Fight For Electricity & Water
April 15, 2019
As summer arrives, Urban Odisha gets scared about water
With a projected population nearing 9.40 lakhs, as per India Population 2019, Bhubaneswar has the reputation of being the hottest city of the country. With the monsoon trend delaying by almost one month, the worry for the urban dwellers of the state is the possible water scarcity they have to face soon as they have been facing for many years
April 05, 2019
Mahanadi needs rejuvenation plans to remain a live river system
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Mahanadi River at Mundali barrage near Cuttack city, Odisha
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At the centre of the dispute, since 2016, between Odisha and Chhattisgarh over sharing of water, River Mahandi is getting overstressed and its basin ecosystem degrading day by day
Mahanadi is the sixth largest river of India. It originates from a pool, 6 KM from Farsiya village of Dhamtari district, in the State of Chhattisgarh, and flows about 851 KM east through Odisha to reach the Bay of Bengal near Paradip in Jagatsinghpur district.
March 15, 2019
Community interventions reverse desertification trend in Odisha’s Balangir
Byasadev Bhoi, 58, of Pandel village of Odisha’s in Balangir district was very excited while showing the pond the villagers have dug. The pond has changed their lives by ensuring water to irrigate about 150 acres of agricultural land even during dry seasons between the months of January and May. Byasadev is happy that the young members of his family don’t need to migrate to other states in search of jobs anymore as they are now able to grow more than two crops in their fields.
Balangir district being chronically drought-prone, this was not the life villagers of Pandel lived before.
January 26, 2018
Chronic Kidney Disease Plagues Rural Odisha, but Why?
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47, G Dharma Rao of Badaputi village in Chhatrapur block of Odisha’s
Ganjam district suddenly finds himself becoming a burden on his family.
He was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease (CKD) two years ago. Dharma is now unable to do any work and is undergoing dialysis in a Bhubaneswar hospital twice a week.
“We
have already spent over 5 lakh rupees for his treatment by taking hand
loans from relatives and others at an interest of 2 percent/month,” said
G Aimma (42), Dharma’s wife.
April 09, 2017
Conserving rainwater in subsurface soil to fight water scarcity
Indigenous communities in India's Rayagada district mitigate the
challenges of water scarcity by storing rainwater in subsurface soil. A
cheap and concrete solution to a global problem.

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