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Land stir against Bhandara power plant intensifies

Farmers stall ground levelling work at site; fear police reprisal

Pranhita irrigation project: Maharashtra agrees to form inter-state board

Will help irrigate 663, 684 hectares in seven districts in Telangana region

Diminishing returns

Public good, private concerns

Odisha is becoming a testing ground for ADB’s aggressive water sector reforms

Science and Technology - Briefs

Andhra Pradesh to cancel controversial Polavaram tender

The lowest bidder is found not qualified for participating in bidding

Polavaram project in legal wrangle

In court

An index for monitoring effectiveness of climate-smart agriculture practices: How it can help

Awareness and training was the highest weighted dimension among the five that were used to develop the index

India must focus on rainfed farming

There was a time when it was said that the Indian budget was a gamble on the monsoons. That is not the case any more, with industrial production …

Drought of equity

A large part of Maharashtra has been declared drought-hit. But distribution of water is quite incongruous. While the few who are politically and …

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, …

A continental crisis, and a few green shoots

African countries are fighting an addiction: import of food items, which happens at the cost of domestic farmers. Despite the unprecedented …

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 …

Towards water sufficiency

Controlling the Water, Matching Technology and Institutions in Irrigation Management in India and Nepal Edited by Dik Roth and Linden Vincent, …

Family plot

Timely practices of mulching, watering and pruning have allowed the Kachares to thrive on "barren" ground

An alternative perspective

While small irrigation projects are the need of the hour, the government is obsessed with big projects

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

Rivers, Provide and not Serve

Hydro-power, long irrigation canals, sand mining and water for industrial use: these are not what Maa Ganga in its magnanimity provides. These …

Lessons of a drought

Water will become the most prized and precious commodity in the coming years. Internecine conflicts over the resource are already the order of …

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

Living in style in Ladakh

The Ladakh Ecological Development Group is working to make the harsh life of Ladakhis easier through improved housing and easier methods of …

Watering down a success story

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