Groundwater depletion alarming in northwest, central India
By R. Prasad Natural recharge during monsoon may not help much if groundwater depletion becomes acute, as rainfall of past years controls current storage With 230 […]
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21 Indian Cities Projected to Run Out of Groundwater by 2020, Report Says
By Pam Wright At a Glance Nearly 600 million people face high to extreme water stress in the country. Seventy-five percent of all households do not have water […]
Misaligned agriculture: A major source of India’s water problems
BY HARITHA SARANGA AND SPOORTHI ANANDA KUMAR India is not a water poor country, however, the demand for water is increasing every day due to the […]
Depleting groundwater shrinks India’s agricultural lands: Government data
By Anuradha Shukla In 2017, nearly 40 lakh hectares of agricultural land was impacted because of water woes, resulting in a drop in the area under […]
Forced to walk miles, India water crisis hits rural women hardest
On an average, a rural woman walks 5km to 20km a day just to fetch water, according to estimates by campaigners Women in villages who […]
India extracts more groundwater than China-US, says study
KOCHI: India accounts for one-fourth of the total groundwater extracted globally, more than that of China and U.S combined and cities and villages in the […]
Women take southern India’s drought into their own hands – one shovel at a time
By Raksha Kumar MANDYA DISTRICT, KARNATAKA : Sowbhagyamma wears her husband’s checked shirt on top of her sari. Tying a towel to her head so that it […]