The Punjab Canal and Drainage Act, 2023
The Government of Punjab on December 27, 2023, notified the Punjab Canal and Drainage Act, 2023. The following has been stated: Section 2 talks about various definitions like “canal” “culturable command
Canal Irrigation
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The link with a hole
At a time when river networking is being touted as a panacea for the entire country’s water woes, the tide of opinion in Karnataka is turning against the concept. The dissent is moored to a proposed local scheme to divert Nethravathi river
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Malaria in the Thar Desert: Facts, Figures and Future Book review
One usually does not associate malaria with a desert environment. Common sense dictates that mosquitoes, that breed only in stagnant water, would give arid, water scarce spaces such as a desert a wide go by. But that is not the case in the Thar desert. Ra
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Churning issue
Does the concept of interlinking India's rivers hold water? The debate rages on...
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Going off course
As the Cauvery river dispute between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu gets reduced to a politico legal wrangle, focal issues remain unaddressed
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Drought desperation
In a last-ditch bid to save their dying crops, farmers of drought affected Namunda village in Haryana breached the Delhi-Rewari canal recently. They resorted to this extreme step to irrigate their
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And ancient wisdom prevails
The Valencia water tribunal has stood strong for a thousand years; will modern day pressures crush its influence?
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Controversial Canal
While coming down heavily on the "Greater Thal Canal Project', the Karachi city district government in Pakistan has asked the federal government to stop its construction immediately. The city council
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People's initiatives
Orissa and UP villages once again prove that people are better managers of natural resources than today s obdurate governments
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Blind to rain
Gujarat s minister for major irrigation projects needs to understand that big dams alone do not add up to water management
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INDIA
The Himachal Pradesh government has made it mandatory for all new building owners to construct structures at their premises for collection of rainwater from rooftops of their buildings to meet the