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News ScanSelf-help brings two drought-prone UP villages to life
By digging canals themselves, villagers in drought-prone Lalitpur district, Uttar Pradesh, have begun raising two crops a year and have doubled their income More... Jharkhand’s water table drops by 3 metres in one year: studyLocal efforts to conserve rainwater have made some villages in Jharkhand self-sufficient. But many districts in the state have only enough water to last them till March More... In Vijayawada, every household has a water connectionA concerted effort to use water rationally, cut waste, and provide connections at moderate rates at the consumer’s doorstep has made Vijayawada the first city in the country to provide water to all its inhabitants More... Orissa’s man-made water crisisHow is it that a state with an average rainfall of 1,502 mm experiences acute water shortages in summer? Perhaps because the approach to the problem has been a ‘one-size-fits-all’ one, with no assessment of the ground realities and no implementation of area-specific technologies More... Simple solutions to big water problems in BalangirBalangir in Orissa, known as one of India’s poorest regions, is facing an acute water scarcity, thanks to the administration’s neglect of the natural waterbodies and tanks that once took care of all the citizens’ water needs More... Jala Nirmala scheme in 11 districts of KarnatakaThe state government will take up the Jala Nirmala scheme, at a cost of Rs 1,100 crore, in 11 districts of north Karnataka including Bagalkot, Bidar, Belgaum, Bijapur, Dharwad, Gadag, Gulbarga, Haveri, Koppal, Raichur and Uttara Kannada http://www.deccanherald.com/content/31918/, October 23, 2009 More... Rainwater harvesting to be made compulsory in Bihar’s urban areasTo promote water conservation in Bihar, the state government is expected to enact a law making rainwater harvesting mandatory in urban areas http://dailypioneer.com/199204/, September 2009 More... Not poor rainfall but over-use of water behind drought, say NASA scientistsAmounts of rainfall have not changed, but water use has. Four north Indian states -- Punjab, Rajasthan, Haryana and Delhi -- are using up 30% more of their groundwater resources than has been estimated by the Indian government, says a new NASA report More... India’s reservoirs are emptying out23 reservoirs which together have a capacity of 106 billion cubic metres now contain only 9.59 BCM, according to the Central Water Commission’s weekly report released on June 25 More... |
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