Groundwater

Southern India reels under drought-like conditions

With the Right to Information (RTI) Act coming into force in the year 2005, the country saw many RTI activists making the most of it to demand the rights and entitlements of the people from the government. Pushpa, warmly known as Pushpa RTI, is one of them.

There was a time when the farmers of Yavatmal district depended completely on rainfed agriculture. That was before the introduction of Doha, a water harvesting structure by NGO Dilasa Sansthan in 2014. Farming changed drastically after that, something which Sitaram Kove, a 40-year-old farmer of Rajini village in the district, will vouch for.

Yet again, Bengaluru’s lake on fire

That Tamil Nadu qualifies to be dubbed as a land of climate paradoxes is beyond debate. The massive flood of 2015 was quickly followed by a punishing drought in 2016. Though the state benefited marginally from the south-west monsoon, as is usually the case, the biggest let down was the manner in which the more dominant north-east monsoon had panned out.

People of Sikkim stand against Teesta hydel project

This guide lists out the organisations/ NGOs in the Water and Sanitation sector, across the country. Please click on a topic to view more detailed information.

National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, India in association with Association of Global Groundwater Scientists; Central Ground Water Board, India; and Texas A&M University,USA is organizing 7th International Groundwater Conference on Groundwater Vision 2030 - Water Security, Challenges and Climate Change Adaptation during December 11-13, 2017 at New Delhi, India.

Tamil Nadu declares drought

At a time when the government’s attention is steered towards the concerns of the northern rivers like the Ganga and the Yamuna, it is seldom that the polluted rivers of the south India come up for discussion.