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

Mapping efficient irrigation techniques

At rock bottom

It is difficult to find water even at record depths in Kolar, Karnataka's horticulture hub

Watering down concern

GROUND WATER DEPLETION, LAND DEGRADATION AND IRRIGATED AGRICULTURE IN INDIA·B D Dhawan· Commonwealth Publishers· Pages 200&…

Conserving groundwater: Role of women crucial in bringing about significant change 

Women who have no decision-making role in building wells, bear the brunt of the ensuing water crisis

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

India had a deficit monsoon in 13 of the last 18 years

The country had its last surplus monsoon in 2013

Punjab Assembly Elections 2022: Ignoring the groundwater depletion problem

Blaming farmers alone won’t work; prices for crops other than paddy must be remunerative

Asia-Pacific still most vulnerable to water insecurity

According to the ADB report, the number of countries assessed as water insecure has dropped to 29 as compared to 38 in 2013

Who will salvage Punjab from pesticides, drugs and cancer?

The success story of Green Revolution turned into a harrowing reality with land and water contamination showing a trickle-down effect on economy …

Water-stressed in India: JSA helped Tirunelveli farmers look at options

As farmers could not sow paddy due to water scarcity, Jal Shakti Abhiyan officials urged them to plant other crops 

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

Water levels in free fall

Groundwater levels in the state in free fall

Land subsides in groundwater-guzzling UP districts

Central Uttar Pradesh is literally on shaky ground. Land subsidence has been reported from several districts of the region, including Fatehpur, …

No one is following regulations

Farmers take no permission, officers do not survey wells

What monsoon means

Water conservation fee: improving or increasing the crisis?

We need to find newer ways to reduce and regulate over-extraction and usage, than promoting further extraction and overuse of this already …

Trial and error

‘Groundwater depleting fast in Indus, Ganga and Brahmaputra basins’

Shanti Swarup Prize 2020 winner Abhijit Mukherjee says Indian states with highest groundwater depletion rates were subjected to water-…

NASA releases new global maps mapping groundwater, soil wetness

Groundwater and soil moisture are crucial for irrigation and crop growth  

Farmers quit mentha

Overexploitation of water leaves very little for farming

Elemental woe

Andhra's groundwater crisis & a trail of suicides

Groundwater has failed Andhra Pradesh’s farmers. Between 1997 and 2006, about 4,500 farmers committed suicide, unable to repay loans they …

Experiments in budgeting water

State is trying to get farmers to budget water

Punjab's depleting groundwater stagnates agricultural growth