How Assam's Bodo community used indigenous knowledge to tackle decades-old water supply problem

River water was diverted to the villages through dongs — earthen canals built and maintained by the villagers

Pumping in diseases

EGYPT

INDIA

Canal controversy

Controversial Canal

Eye on irrigated pie

Farmers' organisations raise an alarm over Odisha government's recent guidelines that allow industries to acquire irrigated land

Drought desperation

In Court

A new paradigm

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Lost in the Thar

The Indira Gandhi canal project is a costly failure that has led to destruction of habitat and loss of arable land

NITI Aayog wants to hand over micro irrigation to private players

The government policy think tank believes it would take 100 years to exploit the micro irrigation potential with the current programme target and …

Malaria in the Thar Desert: Facts, Figures and Future - Book review

One usually does not associate malaria with a desert environment. Common sense dictates that mosquitoes, that breed only in stagnant water, would …

South Asia

Misdiagnosed

Flawed plan triggers water crisis in Uttaranchal villages

The acre-feet fuss

But Punjab and Haryana farmers depend on groundwater!

Small is more

A small water harvesting structure can produce amazing economic crossover effects. The same may not be true for large canals

Tannery menace

Effluents pollute Kalingarayan canal in Tamil Nadu

Mosquitoes storm the desert

A cerebral malaria epidemic in Rajasthan has its source in the Indira Gandhi Canal

Watering down a success story

Water User Associations in Maharashtra face unforeseen hurdles despite being successful. Why is the government stalling them?

Hydraulic marvel

An eighteenth-century canal system in Pune remains fresh despite long disuse

...And ancient wisdom prevails

The Valencia water tribunal has stood strong for a thousand years; will modern-day pressures crush its influence?

The link with a hole

At a time when river networking is being touted as a panacea for the entire country's water woes, the tide of opinion in Karnataka is turning …

Mosquitoes storm the desert

A cerebral malaria epidemic in Rajasthan has its source in the Indira Gandhi Canal

Reserve game