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Women pick up shovels, dig 190 wells in Kerala [1]

Breaking into male bastion, around 300 women have turned well-diggers in a nondescript village in Palakkad district of Kerala to find a solution to the acute water scarcity in the hamlet and earn

Publication Date: 
10/07/2017
Times Of India (Thiruvananthapuram) [2]
Tags:
Kerala [3], Palakkad (D) [4], Drinking Water Scarcity [5], Groundwater [6], Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) [7], Water Resources [8]

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[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/drinking-water-scarcity
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/groundwater
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/national-rural-employment-guarantee-scheme-nregs
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/water-resources