In the past six years, the 3,500-odd residents of this village in Rajkot district, which falls in the Saurashtra region of Gujarat, have come a long way. After a prolonged water crisis, the village

A micro-watershed management project was launched under the Rajiv Gandhi Mission for Watershed Development in this village of Jhabua district in 1996. Since then, a lot has changed. The underground

Experts all over agree that rainwater harvesting is the best way to improve the lot of villages

The government of Gujarat has launched a project worth Rs 70 crore to dig 120 bores in the Wankaner taluka of Rajkot district to supply drinking water to Rajkot city. At present, the city is

After the 1999 monsoon failed in several areas of Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh, there is a serious drought. Summer is a good four months away, and already there are reports of riots and deaths over water. But several villages are well equipped to face the w

Pockets of salt manufacturing uits and an army firing range within the Wild Ass Sanctuary i Gujarat are scaring the animals away

From planting trees in his arid homeland to trapping water, this former textile dealer shows the way

development in G ujarat seems to be restricted to the industrial sector only. More than 18,000 villages in the state

Single handedly, 62 year old Shamjibhai Antala brings water to the arid lands of Saurashtra and reprieve to the villagers

Depleting groundwater sources compel farmers in Gujarat to use industrial effluents for irrigation

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