As extreme weather events become more frequent and less predictable, the future of Indian agriculture will depend on how effectively it com...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the Delhi-Dehradun Expressway on April 14, 2026. The 210-213 km six-lane corridor, built at a ...

India faces a critical challenge with excessive groundwater extraction, contributing 25 percent to global withdrawals. A parliamentary comm...

The ground beneath us is sinking, a phenomenon called land subsidence, revealed by advanced satellite mapping. This slow, often invisible m...

"The high concentration of arsenic, fluoride, and iron in groundwater in rural areas in 31 of 38 districts is posing a major health hazard....

Jitendra Singh said the CSIR, along with National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI), have undertaken high-resolution aquifer mapping an...

The research paper published by IIT Kanpur has used more than 4,000 groundwater well data from northwest India to demonstrate that groundwa...

There are nearly 736 major dams in the country. Mostly, constructing a large dam not only involves displacement of people but a large swath...

The ‘Dynamic Ground Water Resources of India’ report of the Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) showed that 1,499 out of 6,881 assessed units...

"Our dependence on groundwater is 65 per cent. It is not infinite. It is invisible, so we don't know how much water is being used. Almost 2...

The frighteningly high uranium concentration in groundwater samples were found by the AMD.

Bhuvan Bhujal, a portal launched two years ago, is providing continuous information to the Centre that has helped identify prospective site...

It could get much worse in the future if one looks at the way Delhi, Haryana, Punjab and Rajasthan have been drawing water from the ground.

Haryana will become the first state in the country to have aquifer mapping done for its groundwater resources by May

Government has prepared 4,898 Hydro-Geo-Morphological Maps for ground water prospecting and selecting sites for artificial ground water rec...

There has been a sharp decline in groundwater levels in several parts of Delhi, West Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Rajasthan over the years, t...

The Parliamentary panel said that the matter should be accorded priority in view of the Eastern states being opened up for the next Green R...