The Aral Sea’s Dry Bed Reflects India’s Water Future
The Aral sea, once one of the world’s largest lakes, was destroyed by large-scale human interventions, especially river diversion for...
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Groundwater Management In South Asia Must Put Farmers First
South Asia accounts for 50% of the groundwater pumped for irrigation globally. The practice has been critical to ensuring food...
Jalandhar’s Waterbodies: From Restoration To Stewardship
As we turned off the NH-44 highway onto a narrow path, skeletal trees lined the edges of quiet fields and...
Reporting On A Changing Agricultural Outlook
Climate change is reshaping India’s agricultural landscape, forcing farmers and communities to adapt to unprecedented changes. The inclusion of climate...
Running On Sunshine, Running Out Of Water
Solar irrigation is helping Indian farmers overcome high diesel costs and unreliable power but may worsen groundwater depletion in dry...
Scientists Raise Alarm As Rural Water Supply Goes From Depths To Debt
Rural water supply systems struggle to keep pace with falling water tables as groundwater depletion around Bengaluru gets critical. Current...
India’s Cotton Exports Could Threaten Maha’s Groundwater
Cotton is one of India’s top agricultural exports and between 2011-12 and 2020-21, the country’s cotton exports consumed roughly 40...
Tensions Over Kashmir Place The Indus Waters Treaty On Life Support
In 1995, World Bank Vice President Ismail Serageldin warned that whereas the conflicts of the previous 100 years had been...
A Coal Mine Reopens, Sparking Hope And Fear
After over a decade of dormancy, the Rajhara North coal mine in Jharkhand’s Palamu district has reopened under private ownership....
Humans Are Depleting Groundwater Worldwide
If you stand at practically any point on Earth, there is water moving through the ground beneath your feet. Groundwater...
Depleting Groundwater: Why Raj Farmers Can’t Use More Solar Pumps
As temperatures rose in June this year, Jaman Singh Saini, a 69-year-old farmer from Badangarh village in Jhunjhunu district of...
Drought Conditions Force Marathwada Farmers To Migrate For Work
It’s 8 p.m. on a rainy day in mid-October and a family of 10 from Beed has arrived in the...
‘Change Cropping Pattern Or Our Rivers Will Dry Up This Century’
A top West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) official warned that "soon our rivers would dry up if we don't...
Fears For Farming As Groundwater Plummets In Northern India
At the recent polls in Punjab and western Uttar Pradesh, free electricity for groundwater irrigation was a major promise of...
