A new program of researchled by the Colombo-based International Water Management Institute (IWMI) will provide vital information to help address water and food security issues in Sri Lanka.

About two lakh people in Palakkad’s Chittur taluk are facing acute drinking water shortage even as a high-level central team visited the drought-affected areas there on Tuesday.

Officials of the Kerala Water Resources Department said the shortage would be severe if Tamil Nadu did not release water from Parambikulam. Drought has already destroyed paddy cultivation to the tune of Rs 80 crore in the district. Chittur is the worst affected.

A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court on Tuesday directed the State government to inform the court about the steps being taken by it to solve the acute drinking water scarcity in the State.

The Bench comprising Justice K.M. Joseph and Justice K. Ramakrishnan also asked the government to state about the measures taken by it to tackle the drought situation.

At a time when neighbouring Maharashtra is facing the worst drought in 40 years, Gujarat is gearing up to conserve water on a war-footing: About five lakh people will gather in Rajkot district on M

U.N. agencies want to strengthen national drought policies after warnings that climate change would increase their frequency and severity.

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300 Families In Amreli Have Shifted To Coastal Areas With 8,000 Cattle

Rajkot: Dhandha nesh (traditional dwellings of maldharis) near Dhari, some 55 km from Amreli town, usually bustles with activity. People of this pastoral community sell milk to near-by dairies. In fact, this nesh is famous for its mava (milk solids used to make sweets), which is brought by large number of sweet shop owners.

Mysore: A herd of elephants has been shifted from neardry Bandipur to a deeper Mulehole area inside the sanctuary where active water bodies and fodder still exist.

Most of the waterholes and tanks in the Bandipur camp have gone dry in the very first week of summer, forcing the Bandipur tiger sanctuary authorities to move the elephants to leafy terrains in the interiors.

The Madhya Pradesh government had announced a bonus of Rs 150 over and above the MSP

Owing to arrival of the new wheat crop in western states, prices of the commodity have started falling. In Madhya Pradesh, set to be the largest wheat producer in a year, prices have fallen to below the minimum support price (MSP). Farmers in the state are selling wheat at Rs 1,350 a quintal, against the MSP of Rs 1,500 a quintal.

The number of people affected by a fourth consecutive year of severe drought in Southwest China has increased to 1.53 million, the country's drought relief authority said Thursday.