Chandigarh: Water woes in Haryana have further deepened. As if deficient rainfall was not enough, the water table has registered a substantial fall of half a metre since last year while it has dipped by nearly three metres in certain pockets of the state.

Though the water table has shown a marginal rise in a few areas, the increase is limited to districts plagued with saline water.

MUMBAI: A few days after cloud seeding experiments at Tansa and Modak Sagar brought some rainfall in the catchment areas, the BMC conducted a similar exercise at the same spots on Thursday. The two experiments carried out at Modak Sagar, however, did not bear fruit and resulted in only 5 mm to 10 mm of rainfall.

At a time when Jharkhand along with the rest of the country is battling drought, Giridih

Ranchi, Aug. 20: A suddenly benevolent rain god may not be able to undo the damage done by the drought devil.

Though the capital and several parts of the state witnessed moderate to heavy rainfall in the past 24 hours and there is forecast for more, the state is staring at an acute drinking water crisis in coming months, courtesy the prolonged dry spell that preceded this shower largesse.

BHUBANESWAR: Former Union minister and BJP leader Braja Kishore Tripathy today demanded immediate declaration of Orissa as a drought-affected state because the fickle monsoon and deficient rainfall in almost all the districts are likely to affect foodgrains output.

Pune Over a span of one-and-a-half hours, the city received 75.5 mm rainfall, which was interspersed with lightning and thundershowers.

madhya pradesh

east madhya pradesh

normal rainfall 774 mm

actual rainfall 490 mm

Departure -37%

May be worst drought in 100 years, warns CM

In spite of the monsoon season still prevailing State Government has declared 37 districts drought-affected. This is the first instance in Madhya Pradesh when in spite of the prevailing monsoon season districts have been declared drought-hit.

Anticipating difficult times ahead, the State Agriculture Department has readied a proposal worth over Rs 550 crore to help farmers tide over a situation created by deficit rainfall. If accepted, the proposal that has been submitted to the State Revenue Department could be a lifeline for farmers who have already been affected by dry spells, which have only recently been interrupted by rains

The overall rainfall deficit of the State has decreased further to 12 per cent. However, Nagaon and Hailakandi districts have been facing 68 per cent and 67 per cent of deficit in this regard. But, Barpeta, Kokrajhar and Tinsukia districts have been witnessing surplus rainfall this monsoon amounting to 56 per cent, five per cent and one per cent respectively.