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Knee-Jerk Reactions Won’t Solve India’s Groundwater Crisis

The CWMI pulls no punches because it does not contain the information needed to identify new opportunities for new investments and gaps in the existing infrastructure. The Srisailam Dam. Credit: syshook/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

NITI Aayog’s Water Management Index May Be an Experiment but It Is Lazy

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India a ‘Hotspot’ of Freshwater Overuse, Satellite Data Says

Farmers work in paddy fields at Bandipora, north of Srinagar. Credit: Danish Ismail/Reuters

Months of Dry Weather Leave Kashmir’s Paddy Farmers Struggling

India Among Four Countries Where Water Taps May Run Dry, Says Report

Farmers tending to a vegetable nursery in Gumla district of Jharkhand. (Photo by Ashok Kumar)

Jharkhand Farmers Turn Rural Entrepreneurs

The Ken river as it flows through Chhatarpur, Madhya Pradesh. Credit: Abhishekkolay/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

Lack of Data Continues to Cast Centre’s River-Linking Plans in Poor Light