-Scroll.in A draft notification on the Central Ground Water Authority’s website seems to relax the rules laid out in 2015. The Central Ground Water Authority has drafted new guidelines to regulate the use of groundWater across the country. If these get approved, Water-guzzling industries such as packaged drinking Water and paper manufacturers could be allowed to drill for Water even in areas identified as facing a groundWater crisis. The draft does away...
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India set for record kharif crop harvest
-PTI New Delhi: Foodgrain output in the ongoing 2017-18 kharif season is likely to surpass last year’s record of 138.04 million tonnes due to higher acreage and a good monsoon for the second straight year, Agriculture Secretary Shobhana K Pattanayak said today. So far, more than 80 per cent of the sowing of kharif crops — paddy, pulses, oilseeds, cotton, sugarcane and jute — has been completed and planting will continue in...
More »Punjab's Water stress foregrounds tough policy trade-offs -Sanjiv Shankaran
-The Times of India blog A reply by Water Resources minister Uma Bharti to a Lok Sabha question on groundWater depletion foregrounds tough trade-offs facing India’s policymakers. According to Bharti, an assessment of groundWater resources and usage showed that 16% of 6,584 assessment units in India are “overexploited.” A table which accompanies her reply provides state-wise data. Here, Punjab stands out for the magnitude of overexploitation. If 16% of assessed units in India...
More »Narmada dam: 40,000 families wait to be resettled
-The Times of India MUMBAI: Twelve people, including 62-year-old Medha Patkar of Narmada Bachao Andolan, have been sitting on fast at Nimar in Madhya Pradesh's Barwani district for eight days now, seeking proper rehabilitation of the nearly 40,000 families whose homes and lands will be submerged once the Water in the Sardar Sarovar Dam is allowed to rise to its full height of 138.68 metres. The gates of the dam were shut...
More »Onion prices soar on supply squeeze -Vishwanath Kulkarni & Rahul Wadke
-The Hindu Business Line Scale Rs. 2,300/quintal; reports of traders hoarding the bulbs Bengaluru/ Mumbai: Onion prices at Lasalgaon, the country’s largest wholesale market for the vegetable, surged on Thursday to touch a high of Rs. 2,300 per quintal on tight supplies. The modal prices have almost doubled over the past two days and more than quadrupled since early July, when prices hovered around Rs. 500. Prices across the country are expected to...
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