The global cost of disasters is growing: The economic burden of disasters is intensifying. While the direct costs of disasters averaged $70–80 billion a year between 1970 and 2000, between 2001 and 2020 these annual costs grew significantly to $180–200 billion. But the real cost is far higher. Disaster costs …
A large part of Maharashtra has been declared drought-hit. But distribution of water is quite incongruous. While the few who are politically and financially powerful take the lion’s share for sugarcane crops, thermal plants and other industries, the rest are struggling to survive. Read More: http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/drought-equity
With Governor Kamla Beniwal giving her approval, the decks have been cleared for a controversial Gujarat law that makes possession of licence mandatory for sinking a tubewell, borewell or artesian well on any agricultural land and also has a provision for imprisonment. The BJP government steamrollered the Gujarat Irrigation and …
Drought continued to diminish in the Southeast and intensify across much of the West this week, according to Thursday's U.S. Drought Monitor, a weekly federal website that tracks drought. Parts of every state west of the Mississippi River are in a drought, except for Washington. The entire state of Colorado …
A lingering drought in Gansu province could worsen in the next few weeks, with drinking water for close to 1 million people already under threat, authorities said. The drought, which has lasted since mid-February, has already affected 5 million people and forced more than 1 million to seek government aid. …
Drought is becoming a recurring problem in some parts of the world Canada is leaving a drought treaty, becoming the only UN member to do so, Canadian media report. The cabinet issued the order last week, but did not announce the move, ahead of a convention in Germany next month. …
The Texas House of Representatives on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a bill that would create a fund to finance water infrastructure projects in a state suffering from two years of widespread drought. The House passed the bill along to the Senate on a vote of 146-2. The measure sets up a …
Rajkot: A number of eligible bachelors in the drought-struck Dedan village near Amreli are ruing their luck. The acute water crisis here has cast a dark cloud over their chances of getting married. Parents of many brides-to-be have broken off their daughters’ engagement with at least four young men in …
Stresses on water supplies aggravated by climate change are likely to cause more conflicts and water should be considered as vital to national security as defense, the United Nations report said on Friday. About 145 nations share river basins with their neighbors and need to promote cooperation over a resource …
In the neighbourhood where Kiran Lakhe lives, people haven’t seen water in their taps for close to a year now. Though there are nearly 300 private and government water tankers in Jalna city in central Maharashtra, not one of them supplies water to people from the underprivileged sections — even …
Understanding the immediate need to address the issue of decreasing ground water levels in parts of the district, the Ground Water Department is taking active steps to spread awareness about ground water conservation. The ground water resource estimation committee report prepared by the Ministry of Water Resources jointly by the …
The city is fast transforming into a concrete jungle and while some call it development others are worried for the future of the Sangam city in terms of availability of underground water. The depleting green cover of the city has affected adversely the underground water level of localities in the …
With the state in the grip of a drought, Deputy CM Ajit Pawar, who holds the finance portfolio, set aside almost 25 per cent of the budget for tackling the state's water crisis. Though he avoided announcing any new schemes despite it being a pre-election year, the total expenditure for …
New Delhi: Union agriculture ministry has declared 17 districts of Gujarat consisting 132 talukas as drought-affected. In a reply to Rajya Sabha MP Parimal Nathwani, union minister of water resources Harish Ravat stated that the districts include Ahmedabad, Jamnagar, Amreli, Anand, Banaskantha, Bharuch, Bhavnagar, Gandhinagar, Junagadh, Kheda, Kutch, Mehsana, Patan, …
A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court on Tuesday directed the State government to inform the court about the steps being taken by it to solve the acute drinking water scarcity in the State. The Bench comprising Justice K.M. Joseph and Justice K. Ramakrishnan also asked the government to …
About two lakh people in Palakkad’s Chittur taluk are facing acute drinking water shortage even as a high-level central team visited the drought-affected areas there on Tuesday. Officials of the Kerala Water Resources Department said the shortage would be severe if Tamil Nadu did not release water from Parambikulam. Drought …
A new program of researchled by the Colombo-based International Water Management Institute (IWMI) will provide vital information to help address water and food security issues in Sri Lanka. ‘Cooperation for a water-secure future: A new research strategy for Sri Lanka’, outlines an ambitious program of investigations that will help fill …
Climate-driven disasters such as bushfires and floods have cost Victorian taxpayers more than $4 billion over the last decade, it has emerged, as the Napthine Government released its plan for Victoria to prepare for the future impacts of climate change. The plan – released on Tuesday in state parliament – …
The Union Government has declared 17 districts in Gujarat as drought-affected, Rajya Sabha MP Parimal Nathwani has said. These districts are Vadodara, Bharuch, Anand, Kheda, Ahmedabad, Jamnagar, Amreli, Banashkantha, Bhavnagar, Gandhinagar, Junagadh, Kutchh, Mehsana, Patan, Porbandar, Rajkot and Surendranagar, Nathwani said in a statement issued here quoting Harish Ravat, Union …
At a time when neighbouring Maharashtra is facing the worst drought in 40 years, Gujarat is gearing up to conserve water on a war-footing: About five lakh people will gather in Rajkot district on May 5 to participate in a massive “yagna” at the end of a month-long save-water campaign …
U.N. agencies want to strengthen national drought policies after warnings that climate change would increase their frequency and severity. Droughts cause more deaths and displacement than floods or earthquakes, making them the world's most destructive natural hazard, according to the Food and Agriculture Organisation, one of the groups taking part. …
