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Open letter to Mr. Rajendra Singh: Do not disregard environmental needs of...
Above: Mandovi River in Goa just before Mapusa, Photo by Author in Feb 2016 GUEST BLOG by: Chicu Lokgariwar Dear Mr. Rajendra Singh Your support for the diversion of the Mhadei River to the Malaprabha...
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DRP News Bulletin 18 April 2016 (Prior action & planning can reduce Drought...
Union Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti in an interview tried to refute charges that the Centre reacted late to India’s drought crisis. Water minister makes strange statements that one cannot do any...
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Latur Drinking Water Crisis highlights absence of Water Allocation Policy and...
Above: The dried up Manjara Dam near Latur. Photo: Vivek Bendre, The Hindu On the 16th of January 2016, when Latur City in the heart of Marathwada was receiving drinking water once in 15 days and when...
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DRP NEWS BULLETIN 25 APRIL 2016 (One Year After Nepal Earthquake, Has the...
On this day in 2015, the massive Nepal earthquake of 7.9 intensity (Richter scale) shook the scenic Himalayan Nation. The earthquake left a major trail of destruction affecting over 20 districts and...
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Bihar Floods in 1987 – III – West Champaran
Above: Cover photo and map from NIDM report of Bihar floods 2007 Guest blog by: Dr. Dinesh Kumar Mishra West Champaran district of Bihar is located in the Northwestern corner of the state and is...
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Bihar Floods in 1987 – IV – Sitamarhi
Above: Cover photo and map from NIDM report of Bihar floods 2007 Guest Blog by Dr. Dinesh Kumar Mishra Till the end of the third week of July, rains in Sitamarhi were normal and whatever flood that...
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Bihar Floods of 1987- V – District Khagaria
Above: Cover photo and map from NIDM report of Bihar floods 2007 Guest Blog by: Dr. Dinesh Kumar Mishra Khagaria faced the first round of floods starting 8th July this year when the floodwaters of the...
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Submission to Mihir Shah Committee For Restructuring of CWC & CGWB
It is proposed that the current CWC and CGWB should be reconstituted along following lines. Encouraged by communication from the committee and MoWR that the suggestions need not be limited by the TORs...
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DRP News Bulletin 02 May 2016 (Patoda: How a village in drought hit...
Patoda: How a village in drought hit State turned water self-reliant At a time when almost every village in drought-hit Marathwada is facing acute water scarcity tiny Patoda, on the fringes of...
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Shimla Gujran in Yamuna baisn: Journey from a flourishing village to a living...
Shimla Gujran village on the other side of DN-2 (Photo by Vikas Sharma, village doctor who had to fix an air tight aluminimum framed glass door at his clinic to avoid to deadly stench) The news of...
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Karnataka: Profile of 2015-16 Drought
Karnataka is witnessing drought for the third successive year; rainfall has been deficient since 2012-13. Because of the rainfall deficit, reservoirs did not fill up completely. Coupled with the hot...
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DRP News Bulletin 09 May 2016 (Welcome initiative by Lok Sabha Speaker)
On May 4-5, 2016, Lok Sabha Speaker Smt Sumitra Mahajan took the lead in organising a workshop for Members of Parliament on Drought, Agrarian Crisis and ILR. As part of the newly constituted Speaker’s...
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Dr. Roxy Mathew Koll: “Warming Indian Ocean means a Weakening Indian Monsoon”
Above: All-India Summer Monsoon (June-September) Rainfall Anomalies during 1871-2015. Note that since 1950s, not only has the incidence of droughts increased, but rainfall in the excess of 10% has also...
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Letter to PM: Devise a policy for curbing hydropower water diversions during...
Above: Red arrows indicate diversion of water from Tata Dams into surplus basin. Source: Google earth images and SANDRP Since past three years, SANDRP has been raising the issue of West-ward water...
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DRP News Bulletin 16 May 2016 (Water conservation: Lessons from ancient India)
Water conservation: Lessons from ancient India As drought-like conditions have gripped many parts of India this year, the pressure to drill borewells in search of increasingly scarce groundwater has...
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Medigadda Kaleshwaram Project: Prompt Repetition of Old Mistakes
A lot has been happening with waters of Godawari on Maharashtra-Telangana border. Telangana has proposed a series of dams in order to harness water allocated to it by the Godawari Tribunal Award. Many...
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India facing its worst water crisis ever: Himanshu Thakkar
Find below interview of SANDRP coordinator Himanshu Thakkar by Aditi Phadnis, Business Standard. The interview was published in Business Standard on the 14th May 2016...
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Telangana Drought 2016
The severe drought in Telangana has caused acute shortage of drinking water and worsened the agriculture crisis in the state. On Nov 24, 2015, the Telangana government declared drought in 7 out of 10...
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Andhra Pradesh Drought 2016
On Oct 28, 2015, the Andhra Pradesh government declared 196 mandals in seven districts, as drought-affected during the Kharif season 2015. The districts were Srikakulam (10 mandals), Prakasam (21),...
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Odisha Drought Profile-2016
Odisha has many rivers, vast forest cover and it receives above average rainfall annually. But, greed for minerals beneath the land and destruction wreaked by industries hungry to exploit the resources...
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