-The Times of India HYDERABAD: In what could be more bad news for the Telangana government, the state groundWater department warned that wells in several parts of the state are likely to go dry. Even if the next monsoon is good, the Water would not be sufficient as the depth of available groundWater is expected to be lower than normal, the GroundWater Board stated in its report for September. The present situation "may...
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Digging wells, the solid scientific way -K Lakshmi
-The Hindu Chennai: Wondering which spot to dig for groundWater or what is the quality of Water in the land you own? Are you still thinking of folks walking around with those peculiar ‘Y'-shaped twigs? It's not quite that way any more. We've become more scientific, we're using special tools to figure out where the Water lies. The ‘we' in this case refers to the State Ground and Surface Water Resources Data...
More »New cropping method to boost pulses output -Sandip Das
-The Financial Express In a bid to promote optimum Water usage and increase farmers' income, a new cropping method is being tested across northern India In a bid to promote optimum Water usage and increase farmers' income, a new cropping method is being tested across northern India through sowing of moong bean in the same field prior to harvest of wheat crop. The short duration - 60 to 65 days - moong is...
More »Feed the world -Nafeez Ahmed
-Deccan Herald In accordance with a new agroecology initiative within the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation, by using the agroecological methods, small farmers are key to feeding the world, Nafeez Ahmed notes. Modern industrial agricultural methods can no longer feed the world, due to the impacts of overlapping environmental and ecological crises linked to land, Water and resource availability. The stark warning comes from the new United Nations Special Rapporteur on the...
More »SC Slams Govt for Failure to Clean Ganga, Gives Power to NGT
-Outlook The Supreme Court today asked the National Green Tribunal to take action against industrial units polluting Ganga including snapping Water and power connections to them while slamming Centre and State Pollution Control Boards for their "failure" to punish erring units. Expressing deep concern over the present pollution level of the river, which it held to be the "lifeline" of the country, a bench headed by Justice T S Thakur gave a...
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