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Bihar
Replacing rice will improve India’s climate resilience
Posted on 11 Dec, 2019 11:50 AMA new study finds that introducing coarse cereals such as millet and sorghum could improve India’s national food supply in many ways.
![Rice field in Karnataka (Image: Guldem Ustun, Flickr Commons, CC BY 2.0)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/rice-karnataka.jpg?itok=wdupTeYL)
Drinking water availability should be a top priority, concrete action should be taken against water wastage: NGT
Posted on 23 Oct, 2019 10:35 AMDrinking water availability should be a top priority: NGT
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Monsoon withdrawal delayed; more extreme weather events the new trend
Posted on 02 Oct, 2019 11:01 AMMonsoon’s withdrawal likely to begin around October 10: IMD
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Government undertakes 3D mapping of aquifers in all villages
Posted on 07 Aug, 2019 11:07 PMGovernment to 3D map aquifers in all villages
![Groundwater drops to alarming levels. Illustration credit: KN Balraj. Source: India Water Portal on Flickr](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/untitled_8.png?itok=r1Ev5OeQ)
Floods grip Assam and Bihar
Posted on 17 Jul, 2019 01:54 AMBihar and northeast India reel under floods
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Twenty-six states under threat of desertification
Posted on 18 Jun, 2019 08:23 PMThe threat of desertification increases in 26 of 29 states
![Increasing desertification, a challenge India needs to tackle. (Image Source: Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/desertification_1.jpg?itok=BLeiAqB7)
Groundwater depletes in north and east India
Posted on 23 Apr, 2019 07:12 PMIndia is the largest user of groundwater in the world. It uses an estimated 230 km3 of groundwater per year, which is over a quarter of the global total. About 85 percent of rural drinking water needs, 65 percent of irrigation needs and 50 percent of urban drinking water and industrial needs are fulfilled with groundwater.
![Crop irrigation with groundwater, powered by electricity in Gujarat. (Image: Tesh, Wikimedia Commons, CC-4.0A-ShareAlike-International)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/groundwater_1.jpg?itok=-ZK9qJ-a)
In conversation with nature
Posted on 15 Apr, 2019 05:42 PM“There is a special type of black ant that is visible just before (and during) the onset of heavy rains.
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Water storage depletes in major river basins: CWC
Posted on 09 Apr, 2019 09:08 PMCWC data shows water storage in major river basins depleting
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Solar pumps solve irrigation trouble
Posted on 19 Mar, 2019 06:10 PMAgriculture in Bihar has languished primarily because of high input costs, especially that of energy due to inadequate grid electricity supply and a high price of diesel. Rural electrification through grid supply is not happening in Bihar due to lack of public investment. Also, the existing groundwater markets are neither increasing irrigation nor achieving equity.
![New employment has been created as a result of the pilot in the form of the S-ISPs and their operators which will increase considerably if the project is scaled up. (Image: IWMI)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/samastipur-1_0.jpg?itok=ygCxAbRz)