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 …

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Afghanistan, the badland of international politics, faces its toughest challenge: life and peace. Two decades of war, six months of non-stop …

What monsoon means

The politics of inefficient irrigation technology

Water levels in free fall

Groundwater levels in the state in free fall

No one is following regulations

Farmers take no permission, officers do not survey wells

Trial and error

Experiments in budgeting water

State is trying to get farmers to budget water

$4.5 billion question

Where does Afghanistan go from here? Does it have the capacity to utilise the funds? There are too many players, too many interests and too much …

The Die Hards

Despite marathon wars, Afghan resilience is intact. So is their affiliation to localised independence

Mapping efficient irrigation techniques

Watering down concern

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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, …

Farmers quit mentha

Overexploitation of water leaves very little for farming

Elemental woe

Punjab's depleting groundwater stagnates agricultural growth

Water starved village caught in Bt debate

Bhamb Raja rues Bt seed major Monsanto and farmers activists exploit its plight to achieve their own goals

Barind's three crop revolution

Unique irrigation model developed for Bangladesh's arid region is helping farmers grow as many as three crops a year

A home-grown drought

Monsoon this year has failed most of India, causing drought in even well-irrigated and rainfed areas. Ravleen Kaur reports how our food …

Punjab's paddy dilemma

In 2009, Punjab became the first state in the country to enact a law banning the sowing of rice before a stipulated date. The aim was to arrest …

In deep water

Rivers Krishna and Mahanadi are in crisis. In the race to industrialise, states have drawn plans to exploit their last drop. For four decades, …

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

At rock bottom

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

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 …

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