Wildlife

 SAO PAULO

Water is being rationed in Sao Paulo

Publication Date: 
29/06/2000
Down to Earth
Tags:
Water Distribution, Drinking Water Scarcity, Drought, Brazil
Transport

 The myth of drought

For every administrator, there is a lesson to be learnt from Gujarat s drought. Specially since this dry spell has been brought about more due to water mismanagement than an erratic monsoon

Publication Date: 
14/05/2000
Down to Earth
Tags:
Water Management, Water Distribution, Water Harvesting, Drinking Water Scarcity, Drought, Governance, Gujarat
Agriculture

 Catching water where it falls

A movement to recharge the depleted groundwater aquifers in a parched district of Madhya Pradesh gathers momentum

Publication Date: 
14/04/2000
Manish Tiwari And Anumita Roychodhury
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Groundwater, Water Conservation, Water Harvesting, Drinking Water Scarcity, Madhya Pradesh, Dewas (D)
Wildlife

 Waterlogging

About three million hectares of irrigated land has been adversely affected by waterlogging

Publication Date: 
14/02/2000
Down to Earth
Tags:
Drinking Water Scarcity, Pakistan
Water Resources

 War over water

Mismanaging water can create a crisis and lead to panic. This is exactly what led to a water riot near Jamnagar in Gujarat

Publication Date: 
30/01/2000
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Water Management, Water Harvesting, Urban Water Supply, Drinking Water Scarcity, Dams, Irrigation, Farmers, Gujarat
Industry

 Holding their own

Villages which have harvested rainwater are faring quite well in the face of drought

Publication Date: 
14/01/2000
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Water Management, Water Harvesting, Drinking Water Scarcity, Irrigation, Watershed Development, Drought, Public Participation, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh
Wildlife

 THUNTHI KANKASIYA DAHOD a turnaround

The people of this small village of Bhil tribals in Dahod district had been facing a serious water crisis. About 78 per cent of them used to migrate for at least 10 months. There were no wells in the

Publication Date: 
14/01/2000
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Water Management, Water Harvesting, Drinking Water Scarcity, Irrigation, Watershed Development, Drought, Public Participation, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh
Wildlife

 Raj samadhiyala Rajkot leading by example

About 20 km away from the district headquarters of Rajkot, this village shows how environmental management can bring about a socio-economic turnaround. According to Narayanbhai Limbasia, a

Publication Date: 
14/01/2000
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Water Management, Water Harvesting, Drinking Water Scarcity, Irrigation, Watershed Development, Drought, Public Participation, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh
Wildlife

 Man with a mission

The credit for the socio-economic turnaround of Raj-Samadhiyala village in Rajkot district of Gujarat goes to Hardevsinh Balwantsinh Jadeja, the 48-year-old head ( sarpanch ) of the village council.

Publication Date: 
14/01/2000
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Water Management, Water Harvesting, Drinking Water Scarcity, Irrigation, Watershed Development, Drought, Public Participation, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh
Wildlife

 Gandhigram Kachchh Taking Loans to harvest Water

This village in Mandvi taluka of Gujarat's Kachchh district has embarked on rainwater harvesting and wm quite recently. For the past 10-12 years, the residents have been facing a drinking water

Publication Date: 
14/01/2000
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Water Management, Water Harvesting, Drinking Water Scarcity, Irrigation, Watershed Development, Drought, Public Participation, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh

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