An alternative perspective
While small irrigation projects are the need of the hour, the government is obsessed with big projects
Lighting up the fields: How electricity can help irrigation
Over the years, inaccurate estimations of electricity consumption have led to untargeted approaches being applied to optimise power sector
Rivers, Provide and not Serve
Hydro-power, long irrigation canals, sand mining and water for industrial use: these are not what Maa Ganga in its magnanimity provides. These …
Lessons of a drought
Water will become the most prized and precious commodity in the coming years. Internecine conflicts over the resource are already the order of …
688 billion cubic metres: India's water withdrawals for agriculture is the highest in the world
Globally, irrigation accounts for an estimated 70 per cent of total freshwater withdrawal
Living in style in Ladakh
The Ladakh Ecological Development Group is working to make the harsh life of Ladakhis easier through improved housing and easier methods of …
Watering down a success story
Water User Associations in Maharashtra face unforeseen hurdles despite being successful. Why is the government stalling them?
A tradition that got washed away
For more than a century, the people of Motepur used to build an earthen dam on the Punpun river every two years. Today, wage labour has replaced …
Surging success
With agriculture playing a dominant role in nations' economy, efforts -should be directed at making it more productive One way of doing it would …
...And ancient wisdom prevails
The Valencia water tribunal has stood strong for a thousand years; will modern-day pressures crush its influence?
New web-based platform to help with micro irrigation
Researchers have come up with a web-based application that helps design customised micro-irrigation systems for individual agricultural fields
The politics of water
GROUNDWATER MARKETS AND IRRIGATION DEVELOPMENT: POLITICAL ECONOMY AND PRACTICAL POLICY by Tushaar Shah Publisher: Oxford University Press Price: …
New-look farming fumbles to an erratic start
The Planning Commission is embarking on a new approach to agriculture planning. But state governments and the finance ministry are reluctant to …
New Bill aims to restrict groundwater use
The government is preparing legislation to regulate the use of tubewells because water-tables in the country are falling rapidly. But the …
Irrigation aid for India stopped
American aid for Indian irrigation projects has been withdrawn as focus shifts to other sectors.
Experts favour hiking charges to halt irrigation water waste
Disciplined use of irrigation water can be encouraged by efficient supply at higher rates.
On deaf ears, naturally
The natural way of farming: the theory and practice of green philosophy, Masanobu Fukuoka
Water management outpourings
Managing Irrigation Together: Practice and Policy in India Clarence Maloney and K V Raju Sage Publications Rs 325
Ground realities
The importance of groundwater as a source of irrigation and the role of traditional methods in conserving it should be given due credit
Website review: www.changemakers.net
Is information invariably bound to perception? Let us try and answer it in the context of the worldwide conference on water currently online at …
Groundwater level plunges in Bangladesh
Dhaka is being milked dry. Of late, there has been a rapid decline in the city's groundwater table. In fact, it has depleted by over 20 m during …
Incomplete irrigation projects overshoot budget
The state governments' failure to complete irrigation projects has led to an escalation of their combined cost by close to a whopping one lakh …
Eye on irrigated pie
Farmers' organisations raise an alarm over Odisha government's recent guidelines that allow industries to acquire irrigated land
Himalayan water-sharing system endangered
Modern practices are threatening to break up an unusual water-tapping and water-sharing process in Himachal Pradesh. Devised hundreds of years ago,…
Drainage plan helps reclaim land
Scientists have evolved a subsurface drainage system that makes saline soils arable within three years
