groundwater depletion

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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…

3 months ago
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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…

3 months ago
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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…

4 months ago
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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…

5 months ago
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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…

5 months ago
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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…

6 months ago
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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.…

7 months ago
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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…

2 years ago
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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…

2 years ago
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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…

3 years ago
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‘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…

4 years ago
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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…

4 years ago

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