Water Management

NABARD to raise Rs 77,000 crore to fund 100 prioritised irrigation projects

Guinness World Records names Assam’s Majuli world’s largest river island

The management of water resources in India has always been a challenge. From the British era till now, the various governments that ruled India have grappled with the fundamental issue of water equity. 

The journal ENVIRONMENTAL AND EARTH SCIENCES RESEARCH JOURNAL will publish a spe

Telangana, Maharashtra sign pact for irrigation projects across Godavari

Encroachment of lakes and riverbeds caused Chennai floods: Panel

In the olden times, people knew the importance of water and had devised a number of techniques to manage and conserve water resources. These efforts not only met the drinking water needs of the people, but also helped the survival of livestock and agriculture in areas where perennial rivers were absent and the population depended on rains and often faced water scarcity or droughts.

World Culture Festival damaged Yamuna floodplains, concludes NGT

Not enough water available for interlinking rivers: IIT study 

Champa Devi has been working as a sharecropper on a two-acre farm at Nilothi village in west Delhi. Until a few years ago, the water she used for irrigation came from the Najafgarh drain that empties into the Yamuna river. This form of cultivation using waste water was a norm in the area till sometime ago.