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Conservation - Reducing Water Usage
Alternative farming method in Karnal
Posted on 05 Apr, 2014 01:24 PMKalwaheri is a village of over thousand households comprising mostly of small farmers and landless people tucked away in Karnal, Haryana. The district, once the birth place of the Green Revolution, is now far from green.
![Seed-fertilizer drill in use at Kalwaheri village](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/harpreet.jpg?itok=OkzwG7VV)
A picture paints a thousand words? So do comics!
Posted on 31 Mar, 2014 10:31 PMAs a run up to World Water Day 2014, India Water Portal conducted a Grassroots Comics workshop with Field Facilitators, Barefoot Engineers and other field workers of the Dhara Vikas Programme.
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Catch water when it falls
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![A temple tank in Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/img_0936_0.jpg?itok=zLttzTup)
The water-energy nexus
Posted on 31 Mar, 2014 10:20 PMThe theme of this year’s World Water Day was “energy-water nexus”. It was almost as if the topic was chosen keeping Western Uttar Pradesh in mind because the conflict between water and energy users in agriculture and industry has heightened here in the recent past.
![Rise of tubewells in western UP (Source: DTE)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/up-tubewell-dte.jpg?itok=CLOKg13F)
When it rains, it stores!
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![Rainwater diverted into an open well in Thrissur](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/img_5079.jpg?itok=fu7bRXZ2)
Technology and public awareness to combat climate change
Posted on 16 Mar, 2014 10:30 PMIn Jhansi, Bundelkhand farmers experience great uncertainties in agriculture due to erratic rainfall. Covering 13 districts of southwest Uttar Pradesh and Northern Madhya Pradesh with a population of approximately 21 million, Bundelkhand is a typical semi-arid region. Around 83% of the area is rural and more than one third of the households are considered to be below the poverty line.
![Crops appropriate to deal with climate change](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/aonla.jpg?itok=RcOu-9zx)
Invite to 'CDP India water report launch', CDP, New Delhi
Posted on 07 Mar, 2014 11:42 PMAbout the Report:
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Krishi Vigyan Kendra to the rescue!
Posted on 07 Mar, 2014 10:27 AMNidhan is about 30 km away from its district headquarter Morena, Madhya Pradesh. The village receives an annual average rainfall of 450 mm concentrated in the months of July and August. While much of the village depends on rainfed agriculture, the main source of irrigation in the rabi (winter) season is borewells.
![The farmer got bumper crop of pigeon pea](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/pigeon_pea.jpg?itok=CB9UpSsg)
Princely' private ponds
Posted on 07 Mar, 2014 10:14 AMCharkhari, a princely state of India in the colonial period was once a beautiful settlement founded by Saurabh Singh Bundela, a Rajput King. Acceded to India post-Independence, the town is now located in Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh. The place was home to intricate water management systems in the past.
![A talab in the fort city of Charkhari](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/charkhari.jpg?itok=xNS1h9D6)