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It’s not just farmers, Marathwada businesses too roiled by drought -Abhiram GhadyalPatil

-Livemint.com Automobile, construction industry, steel manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, breweries, and distilleries key sectors in Marathwada. Latur is major centre for production of pulses, oilseeds Latur, Maharashtra: Nilesh Thakkar, managing director of Maharashtra Biofertilizers India Pvt. Ltd (MBF), has virtually turned the Latur headquarters of India’s top organic fertilizer company into a campaign office. This is the office from where he runs Jalyukt Latur, a public campaign to revive the Manjra River nearby. And Thakkar...

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Don't Just Blame Climate Change, India's Drought Is Born Out Of Apathy For The Poor -Betwa Sharma

-HuffingtonPost.com NEW DELHI: Severe drought conditions prevail at the moment in at least 10 states in India. Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Haryana, Andhra Pradesh and Telengana are all staring at a bleak summer, already experiencing severe water shortage, with at least two months to go for the monsoons. But droughts are not unique to India. Rich and poor nations across the world are hit by all sorts of calamities, every year,...

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Old wells being rejuvenated to meet water crisis in Bidar -Rishikesh Bahadur Desai

-The Hindu Seventy of the 170 public wells identified have been dredged and cleaned Bidar (Karnataka): The district administration has started a project to preserve old open wells in public places in order to push up the aquifer and protect the ancient legacy of water management. The severe drought conditions of the year have pushed the officials to clean the wells, some of which are around 500 years old. Many of them were...

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Bombay High Court slams cricket Associations on 'criminal waste of water' for IPL -Shreeshan Venkatesh

-Down to Earth Are people more important or IPL, Court asks Associations of drought-hit Maharashtra and Mumbai The Bombay High Court has rapped the Mumbai and Maharashtra cricket Associations for scheduling 19 of the 60 matches to be held during the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2016 in Mumbai, Pune and Nagpur even as the state reels under severe water scarcity. The court stated that Maharashtra ought to prioritise its water usage according...

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Farmers' conference demands law for guaranteed income -Vineet Kumar

-Down to Earth Participants voice concern on drought, farmers' suicide and water conservation, among other issues The three-day long Kisan Swaraj Sammelan held in Hyderabad (April 1 to 3) urged for the enactment of a Farmers’ Income Guarantee Act to ensure dignified earning levels for agricultural households among a host of other things. Organised by the Alliance for Sustainable and Holistic Agriculture, a group comprising 400 diverse organisations from across India, the...

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