Ingenious irrigation

Drip irrigation was first used in Israel for agriculture

Irrigation policy

Human induced Famine

Official negligence turns a dry spell into a famine

TAPPING GROUNDWATER

Shoring up

Drought-wary Karnataka prepares for summer

Ripples across the border

Jaya heeds farmers

Tamil Nadu government halts project on Coleroon riverbed

River Krishna: all used up

But the Maharashtra government still wants to divert 'surplus' water to dry areas

Farmers: consumers

A consumer court's landmark verdict on irrigation

Arrested development

Bihar's flood-drought oscillation still has little recognition

South Asia

70-80% Indian farmers depend on groundwater; solar irrigation inadequate to change crop choices: Report

Policies favouring growth of staple water-intensive cereal crops in different states have played major role in irrigation expansion

Tanakpur treaty to come up for ratification

The sharing of waters between India and Nepal has always been a contentious issue. If the latest agreement is any different, it is only because …

Water use is excessive in rice cultivation

Farmers in India are using 25 times the amount of water that agricultural scientists say is needed to produce paddy. Improper irrigation methods …

The utopian trap

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENT: A CASE STUDY OF INDIA Edited by Kartik C Roy, Clement A Tisdell and Raj Kumar Sen Publisher: Oxford …

India needs to overhaul its approach towards agriculture

907 km from parliament

In the past two months, India has revisited its most contested dam, the Sardar Sarovar Project. While people affected by it in Madhya Pradesh …

Myth of power

Nourisher of an ancient civilization, the Ganga could be gasping for its survival. Every few kilometres the water of its tributaries will be …

Cement out of the bag

Scarcity to abundance: How a Maharashtra village came together to address water crisis

Cultivable land with perennial irrigation grew 20% in a decade 

Food for thought

Power cut

Maharashtra's decentralisation plan gets derailed even before it can take off

Saline solution

Controlled flow

Salt and water