Gujarat passes groundwater bill

The legislation makes it mandatory for farmers to get licence for extracting water

Treating effluents

Split wide open

Officials, experts differ on cause of check-dam breach

A terrible confusion

A report that blames trees for water crisis. Or does it?

Collective spirit an Indian myth or policy failure?

South Asia

Weak link

As Madhya Pradesh's ambitious plan to transport Narmada water to the Malwa plateau takes shape, it demonstrates the futility of river-…

Watershed ruling on Narmada

The Supreme Court has washed aside an ambiguous Review Committee Report and ordered fresh investigations

Farmers' uprising in Rajasthan

Four farmers killed in police firing while demanding more water for irrigation; anger still brewing

Faulty policy causes Maharashtra's farmlands to go dry

Half-baked mega project

Power-starved Andhra Pradesh’s big lift irrigation schemes hinge on availability of electricity

THAILAND

Shallow pledges

The country's new water policy is nothing more than noble intentions

Deep cleansing

Rainwater harvesting can purge pollutants too

Bland offer

By Karnataka on Cauvery

A lesson not learnt

AGP wants freeze on hydel projects

Assam party demands environmental assessment

Rs 1.3 cr to a family

Court enhances compensation to Narmada dam displaced

Minor change in your diet can reduce water use for agriculture: study

Dietary change can potentially improve resilience of Indian food system in the face of future groundwater decline

Running out

Unless better management strategies are evolved, water scarcity in the country will only be accentuated by growing industrial and municipal demands.

Vindicated

The Magsaysay award for Rajendra Singh has meant volte-face by critics of community-based water harvesting

Colonializing Agriculture, a review

Book>> Colonializing Agriculture, The Myth of Punjab Exceptionalism by Mridula Mukherjee Sage Publications New Delhi 2005

Where are the panchayats?

Of the three farm water conservation programmes currently under way in Karnataka, the Jal Samvardhene Yojana (jsy) has completed a year of …

Irregularities mar irrigation projects in Maharashtra says CAG report

The report also says that fines have not been imposed on contractors despite delay

Model shift: Climate change forces Zimbabwe to finally take up irrigation

Irrigation has remained largely alien to Zimbabwe since rains were dependable; but that is no longer the case