Baravas - Unique water harvesting structures of Maharashtra

BWSSB’s workforce woefully inadequate, says Chairman Tushar Girinath

Cyclone Bulbul devastates West Bengal and Odisha

India has a groundwater problem

Mapping Pune’s aquifers

Groundwater

Wells and Step-wells

Rainwater Harvesting

Technology

Treatment and Purification

Quality, Standards and Testing

Metering and Pricing

Conservation - Reducing Water Usage

Contamination, Pollution and Quality

Drinking and other Domestic Uses

Ecology and Environment

Common Property Resources

Governance

Voluntary Citizen or Civil Society Sector

Citizens' Rights and Duties

Government Programmes

Groundwater Recharge

Society, Culture, Religion and History

Equity

Storage and Supply

Surface Water

Sustainability

Demand and Consumption

Urban Water

Borewells and Tubewells

Climate and Weather

Rainfall and other forms of Precipitation

Climate Change

Chemical Pollution

Droughts and Floods

Biodiversity

Wildlife

Industrial and other Manmade Disasters

Natural Disasters

Oceans and Coasts

Rivers

Artesian Wells

Lifting and Extraction

Large Dams, barrages, reservoirs and canals

Pumps and Motors

Wastewater Reuse and Recycling

Agriculture, an important sector of our economy accounts for 14 per cent of the nation’s GDP and about 11 per cent of its exports. India has the second largest arable land base (159.7 million hectares) after US and largest gross irrigated area (88 milion hectares) in the world. Rice, wheat, cotton, oilseeds, jute, tea, sugarcane, milk and potatoes are the major agricultural commodities produced. More importantly, over 60 per cent of the country’s population, comprising several million small farming households, depends on agriculture as a principal income source and land continues to be the main asset for livelihood security. 