-PTI The village has a population of around 10,000 and several of them have moist eyes as they see everything that was part of their lives start to fold up as the water level rises unrelentingly. INDORE: A village in Madhya Pradesh's Dhar district has begun submerging as the level of the backwater of neighbouring Gujarat's Sardar Sarovar Dam started rising over the past fortnight due to heavy rains. On Sunday, the backwater...
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Water crisis: Thanks to Madhya Pradesh, Narmada dam level stays steady -Aditi Raja
-The Indian Express The dam, which was at 105.5 metres on March 15, when the SSNNL stopped the supply for irrigation, rose to 105.75 metres on March 22 due to a significant inflow of water from Madhya Pradesh for four days between March 18 and 22. Vadodara: Nearly two weeks after the Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Limited (SSNNL) ceased supply of irrigation water from the Narmada Dam to preserve the dead storage...
More »Summer of discontent: water crisis looms in Gujarat -Mahesh Langa
-The Hindu Irrigation supply stopped on March 15; drinking water is also inadequate AHMEDABAD: Summer has just set in but Gujarat is already facing a water shortage. And it will only worsen in the next two months as the State’s main water sources like the Narmada dam, and dozens of other dams and reservoirs, are going dry. Ironically, Gujarat is faced with the crisis despite copious rains last monsoon. The government has assured...
More »Winter rains scanty, reservoir levels drop -Madhvi Sally & Nishtha Saluja
-The Economic Times NEW DELHI: A winter rain shortfall of 63% in January and February across India has led to reservoir levels dropping in the major river basins of the Sabarmati, Kaveri and Tapi. While agriculture ministry officials said this will not impact the rabi crop significantly, farmers in Gujarat--where water level in the Sardar Sarovar Dam is below normal--are worried about cotton sowing. “In the current situation, there is deficient water...
More »Who robbed Narmada? -Jitendra
-Down to Earth Farmers in Gujarat prepare for a bleak future and protests as Narmada water disappears from canals after Assembly elections It's February 11. The sun is yet to shine over Morbi district in Gujarat’s arid Saurashtra region. Thousands of diesel pumps suddenly start blaring across a branch canal of the Narmada, passing through Khirai village. Hundreds of farmers have congregated along the canal to draw as much water as possible...
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