Why invite arsenic?

Abjure groundwater, prudent surface water use can solve drinking water and irrigation problems

At boiling point

Desperate Karnataka villagers damage barrage in Maharashtra

Rice does not need water

The system of rice intensification method shows how

Gunchidharu

Kandikere's village body manages scarce water

Work halts on Loharinag Pala

Rock bottom

Loharinag Pala project axed

GoM gives in to public pressure

Subsidies on irrigation efficiency may negatively affect water use: study

The decrease in water availability at watershed levels due to subsidies is a critical concern for India considering the monsoon response to …

Close to 90% projects under PM's flagship irrigation scheme remain incomplete

These 8,214 projects, launched between 2009-10 and 2014-15, should have been completed in 4-7 years

CAG flags series of overruns in UP’s major irrigation projects

Outcomes unachieved despite UP government spending over 4,101 crore on major irrigation projects

The unsilenced valley

The Bhils of Madhya Pradesh are armed with a simple, effective and practical system of irrigation to mend the ruin inflicted by the state's …

A dream come true

The people of several villages in Pune were a helpless lot, until Vilasrao B Salunke stepped in

Dying wisdom

Rise and fall of traditional water harvesting systems in India They are called kuhals in Jammu, kuls in Himachal Pradesh and guls in Uttarakhand.…

Depleting groundwater costs farmers heavily

The groundwater level in India has declined by 61 per cent between 2007 and 2017, according to Fifth Minor Irrigation Census

The paddy compulsion

War continues between Karnataka, Tamil Nadu farmers over Cauvery water for cultivation

Barrages spur protests

Odisha wants to dam surplus water downstream of Hirakud dam. But where’s the surplus?  

Promised land turns arid

Rajasthan fails to allot land to those displaced by Pong dam

Indicted by self

Tanakpur barrage cleared

MP project opposed

Rajasthan cries foul

Not for sale

Curbs on farmland transactions in Karnataka

A Tughlakian folly

Interlinking rivers is politically unwise, ecologically destructive and financially unviable

The lie of the land

The Bhakra Nangal project's success is rooted in myth, says a new study

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