The Maharashtra government has asked officials to prepare an action plan for potential drinking water shortages from October 2026 to June 2027. The Times of India reports the state has directed the…
The debate on solar irrigation's impact on groundwater is too simplistic, argues a new analysis based on evidence from India and Bangladesh. Rather than treating all solar pumps as harmful, the article…
Union Jal Shakti Minister CR Patil told the Rajya Sabha that agriculture accounts for 87% of India's total groundwater extraction. The country extracts 60.63% of its annual groundwater resources, according to the…
The 2025 floods in Punjab affected nearly four lakh people, claimed 48 lives and caused losses exceeding Rs 13,000 crore, according to a guest column in Hindustan Times. The state’s budget for…
Indian cities must redesign how they plan, finance and govern water systems as urban populations and demand rise, The Hindu reports. The paper argues that crisis response alone will not address shortages,…
A farm well in Virparda village, Morbi, has drawn crowds after videos showed its water moving in rhythmic ripples and spilling over the edge. The 18-foot-deep well reportedly began behaving this way…
Nainital’s Naini Lake reached 79 feet 9 inches on Sunday, nine inches above its two-year average, after 275 mm of rainfall from January to May. The Irrigation Department said unseasonal drains channelled…
Punjab Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema said the State has begun reversing decades of groundwater depletion through canal revival, watercourse restoration and recharge projects. The Hindu reported that 16,000 kilometres of watercourses…
Water in an 18-foot-deep farm well in Morbi, Gujarat, has been rippling and overflowing intermittently for five days, drawing hundreds of villagers and passers-by. The well, built about three months ago in…
Intensive groundwater pumping during California’s 2020 to 2022 drought likely caused permanent storage loss in parts of the Sacramento Valley aquifer, according to a study published in the Proceedings of the National…
