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Project Him Sarovar: Centre’s push for year-round water security in LadakhA new initiative, Project Him Sarovar, is set to secure water for Ladakh. The project will build storage ponds to collect melting snow and ...
Nadella lauds Sharad Pawar-led body on AI use for farmersMicrosoft CEO Satya Nadella commended the Agricultural Development Trust (ADT) of Baramati for utilizing AI to assist farmers in achieving ...
Let not a drop go waste: Inside India's potentially game-changing new rainwater planThe govt is planning to build one million rainwater harvesting structures before next year's monsoon. This initiative, called Jal Sanchay, ...
India conducts first-ever census of water bodies; Here's some revelationsAbout 2,424,540 water bodies have been enumerated in the country by the Ministry of Jal Shakti, out of which 97.1 per cent are in rural are...
From water to aggregate supplies, 'Jal Kranti' in drought-prone Vidarbha villagesA brain child of Union minister Nitin Gadkari, 'Jal Kranti' initiative has also made the villages supply aggregates for highway constructio...
Rains are here but concrete surfaces block harvest efforts“Only 10% of rainfall will actually be conserved while nearly 80% of run-off water will not percolate due to concretisation or sewage conta...
Water conservation programme for Budelkhand to be launched tomorrowThe Centre has planned an extensive water conservation programme for drought prone areas of Bundelkhand (Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh),...
Government plans to make 23 lakh rain water harvesting structureNarendra Singh Tomar said the Central Ground Water Board has prepared a conceptual document entitled 'Master Plan for Artificial Recharge t...
Rooftop Rainwater Harvesting to empower individual home ownersCustomers can avail of Ambuja’s Innovative Roof Rainwater Harvesting System which is installed once the roof of their bungalow is completed.
Ground water recharge plan is a non-starterThough the latest report, covering assessment of ground level situation as on March, 2013, is still being compiled, sources in the Central ...
Most states fail to stop decline in ground water levels
Rajasthan experiments with rain water harvestingThe major challenge for the project, which was launched in January this year, was not scarce rainfall but preventing a massive annual wasta...
308 districts in India facing shortage of potable waterUttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh have reported the most number of districts, 50 and 46 respectively, affected due to water shortage, he sai...
Farmers protest in Malegaon over delay in compensation for land acquiredA group of farmers protested in Malegaon against the alleged delay in compensating them after their land was acquired to construct a percol...
NREGA recast to combat threats of deficit monsoonMNREGS is being recast to include in its work plan activities such as de-silting of water bodies, percolation tanks, farm ponds to brace ag...
Irrigated area in Maharashtra rose to 32.6 lakh hectare in FY-'14The number of completed and ongoing irrigation projects stood at 3,911. Of these 105 are major, 299 medium and 3,507 of minor scale.
Jalyukt Shivar project to cover 5,000 Maharashtra villages in first phaseThe project will first be implemented in 5,000 villages where water scarcity is most acute, he said, adding that the villages have been ide...
Chandrababu Naidu stresses on diversion of river water for optimum useAndhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu today said his government has initiated steps to make the state "drought-free".
Drought forces officials to shift elephants to interiors of Bandipur sanctuaryDrying up of all waterholes and tanks in famous Bandipur tiger sanctuary has forced the officials to even shift the elephant camp managed b...
- Spread of waterbodies: Mumbai tops list of major cities
Maximum City Mumbai leads the pack of major Indian cities when it comes to spread of waterbodies. 35% of Mumbai are covered by wetlands or ...