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Staring Down the California Drought: Looking at Solutions to the World's Water Crisis

By : Sustainability ..., Nov 5, 2014

The punishing California drought has become part of our national consciousness, with the bad news seeming to grow worse each week. Last year was the driest on record for much of the state, and in January of this year, Gov. Jerry Brown declared a drought state of emergency and...

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Subject Tags: India , USA , water scarcity

Water harvesting ensures livelihood security for Dalit farmers

By : Sustainability ..., Sep 8, 2014

Villupuram is one of the most backward districts in Tamil Nadu. Major crops cultivated there are paddy, onion, pulses, millets, sugarcane, casuarina and groundnut, using water from tanks and open wells.
The open wells belong to small and marginal farmers and have been...

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Water ATMs: India’s Solution To Clean Water?

By : Sustainability ..., Sep 2, 2014

If at all there is fear for a third world war, it could be over drinking water. Fresh water is a scare commodity today. The issue of fresh water shortage is taken quite lightly in our country. How many are aware that India has just four percent of the world’s fresh water...

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India's reservoir water level drops to two-thirds of capacity

By : Sustainability ..., Aug 25, 2014

In this year of deficient rainfall, less than two-thirds of the country's major reservoir-storage capacity of water is currently available -- some 85 percent of the available storage in the corresponding period of last year, the water resources ministry said Friday. 

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