Blind to the cause

Rehabilitation authority to ignore controversial projects

New web-based platform to help with micro irrigation

Researchers have come up with a web-based application that helps design customised micro-irrigation systems for individual agricultural fields

The politics of water

GROUNDWATER MARKETS AND IRRIGATION DEVELOPMENT: POLITICAL ECONOMY AND PRACTICAL POLICY by Tushaar Shah Publisher: Oxford University Press Price: …

New-look farming fumbles to an erratic start

The Planning Commission is embarking on a new approach to agriculture planning. But state governments and the finance ministry are reluctant to …

New Bill aims to restrict groundwater use

The government is preparing legislation to regulate the use of tubewells because water-tables in the country are falling rapidly. But the …

Irrigation aid for India stopped

American aid for Indian irrigation projects has been withdrawn as focus shifts to other sectors.

Experts favour hiking charges to halt irrigation water waste

Disciplined use of irrigation water can be encouraged by efficient supply at higher rates.

On deaf ears, naturally

The natural way of farming: the theory and practice of green philosophy, Masanobu Fukuoka

Water management outpourings

Managing Irrigation Together: Practice and Policy in India Clarence Maloney and K V Raju Sage Publications Rs 325

Ground realities

The importance of groundwater as a source of irrigation and the role of traditional methods in conserving it should be given due credit

Website review: www.changemakers.net

Is information invariably bound to perception? Let us try and answer it in the context of the worldwide conference on water currently online at …

Groundwater level plunges in Bangladesh

Dhaka is being milked dry. Of late, there has been a rapid decline in the city's groundwater table. In fact, it has depleted by over 20 m during …

Incomplete irrigation projects overshoot budget

The state governments' failure to complete irrigation projects has led to an escalation of their combined cost by close to a whopping one lakh …

A lost name, a vanishing ecosystem

In the Kannada language, the word kere means a man-made or natural water tank, and the word for the numeral nine is ombhatthu , pronounced …

Grown on waste

Dam woes

Floods for nothing

Water out of stone

A lift irrigation system helps tribals in Gujarat fight the tyranny of the seasons

Barrage project in dire straits

Narmada dam lauded

Every drop counts

Better management systems hold the key to overcoming water scarcity

Grounded in wisdom

The government recognises that the groundwater table is falling

Centre allots funds

Gold diggers

Mining company plans to move three glaciers in Chile

Eye on irrigated pie

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