India Digs Deeper, but Wells Are Drying Up, and a Farming Crisis Looms
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With a driving need to boost agricultural production, Indians are tapping their groundwater faster than nature can replenish it.
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For decades, India focused on its domestic economy and grew more slowly. But all that is starting to change.
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A tenth of the world&#39;s irrigated crops - everything from lettuce and tomatoes to mangoes and coconuts - are watered by sewage. And much of that sewage is raw and untreated, gushing direct from sewer pipes into fields at the fringes of the developing ...
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To make matters worse in South Asia, the disaster zone is now being threatened with outbreaks of disease. The World Health Organization is warning that if fresh water and medicine
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PATNA, India  - Flood victims in eastern India were eating raw wheat flour to survive as devastating monsoon flooding in South Asia continued to spread misery among millions.
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India&#39;s fear of a downstream deluge in the Sutlej River in the northwestern state of Himachal Pradesh, should a blockage on the Peerechu river in Tibet burst, highlights the
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It's been 10 years since farmer  Bhairu Singh saw water in the well on his rocky patch of land  in western India.
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Indian economy is poised to grow by 6.4 per cent during the current year and 6.7 per cent in 2005 but deficient rains are raising concerns about agricultural growth, the International Monetary Fund said in Washington on Wednesday.
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India faces the difficulty of educating its children in public schools that have sunk to spectacularly low levels.
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BANIYANI, India -- It's an unused cornfield at the edge of an isolated village, an empty plot of earth that the police flattened with a backhoe and hosed down with a water tanker.
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Marooned amid rising waters, many residents refused to leave their livestock, one of the most valuable assets in a country heavily dependent on agriculture.
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A growing population coupled with diminishing fresh water supplies should force major changes in the way the world's farmers water their crops in the coming decades, a recent study recommends.
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BHUBANESWAR, India  - Flooding triggered by   monsoon rains in the past few days have left 1.5 million people   homeless and damaged thousands of acres of paddy crop in the   eastern Indian state of Orissa, officials said on Sunday.
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Technology has unlocked more oil from old fields, challenging forecasts that reserves are drying out.
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While developing nations China, Brazil and India grow at break-neck pace with their burgeoning industry and farming, industrialized countries want them to clean up the dirty practices that have made them some of the world's biggest polluters.
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AMINAGAR, India  - Neerpal Singh looks at the morning mist hovering over his sugarcane fields and breathes in the brisk winter air, yet to be warmed by the rising sun.
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Migrants who can no longer sustain themselves by farming are flocking to brickyards to fuel the Indian construction boom.