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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While the south-east of Australia has gone through years of drought, new research shows the rest of the country including the centre, is getting wetter.
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The economy is poised to grow by 6.4 per cent during the current year and 6.7 per cent in 2005, but a poor monsoon is raising concerns over agricultural growth, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said here today.
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Asian farmers drilling millions of pump-operated wells in an ever-deeper search for water are threatening to suck the continent&#39;s underground reserves dry, a science magazine warned on Wednesday.
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India's vital outsourcing industry, which relies heavily on the Internet, struggled to overcome supply disruptions Thursday after damage to undersea cables in the Mediterranean.
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The elements throttled a Test match that was heading for a classic finale. For the majority of people in Chennai, the clattering sound of rain against their windowpanes must have been a welcome relief, parched as this land is due to a water shortage.
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The pace of change in India is supercharged because the country is catching up to, and in some cases leapfrogging, developments that took decades to play out elsewhere.
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The double whammy of higher oil prices and unfavourable weather conditions for agriculture, will slow the countryâs economic growth to 6.5 per cent in 2004, and an even lower level of 6 per cent in 2005, according to an Asian Development Bank (ADB
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The South Asian tragedy has ripped open centuries-old fault lines of caste in rural India's rigid social hierarchy. In the district of Nagapattinam, where more than 6,000 people died, untouchables from about 10 villages have openly protested what they call discrimination against them in the provision of relief supplies and access to shelters.
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Drought, pollution, mismanagement and politics have made water a precious commodity in much of the world.
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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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With demand soaring abroad and droughts crimping supply, the worldâs wheat stockpiles have fallen to their lowest level in 30 years.
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The worst drought in over a century has farmers averting their gaze from a future that looks as bleak as their fields.
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A puzzle is crucial to securing IndiaÂs future: how to harness and hold on to its rich but capricious rains.
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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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After the Indian Ocean tsunami in  December 2004, farmers around the region relied on stockpiles  from a Philippine-based rice institute to provide them with  rice varieties that could grow in salty soils.
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By The Associated Press  The state program to save agricultural land from development is out of money, leaving more than 600 applications from farmers to keep more than 120,000 acres of farm land in limbo.