Groundwater levels in Andhra Pradesh are falling fast. Mounting loans for sinking borewells are driving farmers to suicide. Can the state’s efforts to monitor groundwater lead farmers to switch to less water-intensive crops?

Traditionally skilled, they could teach the country some important lessons in resolving water disputes

The saffron-clad and the gun-wielders find a common ritual for social restructuring and acceptance: water harvesting

People of Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat script success stories of rainwater harvesting

Water harvesting programmes in Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat get off to a shaky start

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What’s destroying the unique Dal lake of Kashmir?

Rainwater and society… …an intricate relationship

Forgive us, Aral. Please come back." These words written in chalk, on a ship sftKk in a sandy wasteland, which was once the bustling shore of the world's fourth largest lake, the Aral Sea, tell a graphic tale of the human toll caused by am of the world's greatest ecological disasters in recent memory

Continuing the series on organic farming, Down To Earth's reporter found that both the scientific community and farmers are showing interest in using biofertilisers and vermiculture to substitute for chemical fertilisers. Microorganisms like algae are used as biofertilisers and earthworms not only turn up the soil but are also a rich source of manure. With increasing demand for natural fertilisers, some municipalities have started composting urban waste and selling it as manure.
In addition, growers of organic food are finding an expanding market in the West for their produce.

The ecology of the already shrinking Chilika lake is further threatened by the scramble among fisherfolk, farmers and traders to grabe their share of the depleting stock of fish and prawn.Meanwhile the state government too, oblivious of the lake's deterioration, also wants to exploit the prawns commercially.