India s most agriculturally prosperous state, Punjab, is staring at an impending groundwater crisis. Over extraction of groundwater and faulty cropping practices could affect India s foodgrain production

Panchayats are given more power in Uttar Pradesh s new water policy

D K Chaddha , chairperson, Central Ground Water Authority CGWA , New Delhi, talks to Jitendra Verma on the state of groundwater in India

It is not everyday that approximately 30,000 people from far-flung corners of India, as well as representatives from nearby countries like Nepal and Thailand, gather to discuss a not so juicy issue

The government s latest commission on water may end up churning out myopic, big dam centred policies

India and three other Asian countries have started legal procedures against the us government over the latter's decision to ban the import of shrimp trawled from their coastal waters. They have

troubled by fiscal constraints to operate their water systems, local authorities in Canada are opening their doors to

THE meeting of the National Water Resources Council (NWRC), convened by Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao last month, was a total failure, as no decision was taken on any of the long list of

The country is facing one of the fallouts of the racist laws of the apartheid regime in the form of severe water shortage. The government is planning to reform obsolete water laws which

Many natural resources are consistently overused and undervalued by modern Indian industry; none more so than water. Factories and manufacturing centres throughout the country have a carte blanche

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