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Irrigation
Groundwater revival comes a cropper
Posted on 24 Jul, 2016 09:05 PMWater crisis is a reality in most of India. After the summer of droughts come the monsoon floods. Take Maharashtra, for instance. If at one time it is desperately searching for drinking water, at another time, its capital, Mumbai is wading through knee-high water. How do we overcome these annual crises?
![A villager shows the rainwater harvesting structure in Aravalli hills.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/aravalli.jpg?itok=c1kZlSI7)
Kerala's lake islands sinking
Posted on 24 Jul, 2016 03:17 PMSmall islands in southern Kerala lakes sinking
![A lake in Kerala (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/5074397986_58a2682d31_z.jpg?itok=E_riz7s9)
Rice and shine
Posted on 22 Jul, 2016 10:08 PMTake the roads of Punjab during the monsoon and you will find most fields turned into pools of water. It’s mainly the water pulled out from the underground vault to support the kharif crop of paddy.
![Whatever be the water situation, it doesn’t look like paddy’s popularity as a crop is going to diminish anytime soon. Source: Akshay Mahajan/Flickr](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/rice_0.jpg?itok=Tkhpaseb)
Floods wreak havoc in many parts of the country
Posted on 17 Jul, 2016 04:27 PMFloods grip many parts of the country
![Flooded Simen river in Brahmaputra basin (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/9319712715_526f82ab7f_z_1.jpg?itok=lgvWXFdx)
Rural India walks more than 500m for drinking water
Posted on 25 Jun, 2016 09:13 AMRural India walks too far to quench their thirst
![Rural India walks far to get water (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/17285080046_69d2e8c3d3_z.jpg?itok=bo_NWNeM)
Farm ponds save village from drought
Posted on 21 Jun, 2016 09:09 AMVikram Patel, a 71-year-old farmer in Chidavad village of Dewas district in Madhya Pradesh is one of the first farmers to have embraced the idea of farm ponds to increase the groundwater level in his farm.
![Vikram Patel near his farm pond in Chidavad.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/_dsc0004es.jpg?itok=5l6BCsNU)
Delhi water tanker scam: Sheila Dixit to be probed
Posted on 18 Jun, 2016 10:19 AMFormer Delhi CM Sheila Dikshit to be probed in water tanker scam
![Water tankers fill in water (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/9210204328_4eba7f7a2c_z.jpg?itok=lxnX7uQn)
A river comes to people
Posted on 13 Jun, 2016 08:28 PMGajanand Sharma is excited about the monsoon this year. He is building an anicut on the small stream that runs through his farm. “After the rain, the land will be filled with water and then I will sow wheat and reap record production in this area,” he prophesises. This forecast doesn’t come from his knowledge of astrology, but that of geology, gained over the years.
![A temple and a small pond at the origin of Nanduwali.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/new_1.jpg?itok=z39XAlQE)
"Power firms lose Rs 2400 crores to water crisis"
Posted on 12 Jun, 2016 08:54 PMPower firms’ loss due to water shortage is Rs 2400 crore this year: Greenpeace
![An NTPC thermal plant (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/9370453956_17dc80bf5b_z_1.jpg?itok=8q3-Me3B)
Simhastha leaves farmers fuming
Posted on 12 Jun, 2016 07:38 PMRamesh Mali, a farmer in his late thirties, looks at his farmland nervously. It has been 13 days since the Simhastha Maha Kumbh festival, 2016, concluded. The district administration had acquired his four bigha land (approximately 0.64 hectares) for the festival. The barricades and the concrete left on his land give us the idea that the land is not fit for farming this season.
![Kshipra at Mangalnath Ghat, Ujjain](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/_dsc0285es.jpg?itok=t5zxZWcE)