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Digging A Pit Every 2 Days, How This Parched Rajasthan Village Gets Water
With summer approaching, villagers in some of the driest areas of Rajasthan have started digging for groundwater.
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How One Rajasthan Village Still Has Water Even After A Long, Dry Summer
The village of Laporiya, located 90 kilometres from Jaipur, has enough water even at the end of a long and dry summer. In fact, Laporiya's wells never run dry and fields have moisture, even in summer, to boast grass to sustain animals
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Jaipur Pays The Price For Overusing Groundwater
Amid a long, harsh summer and drought in many parts of the country, Rajasthan has become one of the states where over-extraction of ground water is leading to depletion at alarming levels.
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Battling Water Crisis, Rajasthan Works To Make Villages Self-Reliant
Under the scorching Rajasthani sun of the Mehru Kalan village in Ajmer district, 300 volunteers are hard at work trying to bring water to a settlement that hasn’t had adequate groundwater in the last 5 years. Almost entirely reliant on water tankers, Mehru Kalan is one of the 13,500 villages in the state where the groundwater level has been deple...
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Rajasthan Government to Undertake Water Conservation Programme
Rajasthan government has decided to undertake water conservation programme using rain-water harvesting techniques for villages reeling under drinking water shortage.
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Rajasthan Passes Bill to Manage Water Resources
The Rajasthan Assembly on Wednesday passed the Rajasthan River Basin and Water Resources Planning Bill, 2015 by voice vote.
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Delayed monsoon worsens water crisis in Rajasthan
As the heat continues to remain oppressive in Rajasthan and with little sign of the monsoon's arrival, water scarcity has worsened in the state. With the monsoon delayed by nearly two weeks, the Bisalpur Dam, the main source of water for the cities of Jaipur and Ajmer is in danger of drying up by July 30.The Rajasthan and Gehlot government have pre...
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Digging A Pit Every 2 Days, How This Parched Rajasthan Village Gets Water
With summer approaching, villagers in some of the driest areas of Rajasthan have started digging for groundwater.
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How One Rajasthan Village Still Has Water Even After A Long, Dry Summer
The village of Laporiya, located 90 kilometres from Jaipur, has enough water even at the end of a long and dry summer. In fact, Laporiya's wells never run dry and fields have moisture, even in summer, to boast grass to sustain animals
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Jaipur Pays The Price For Overusing Groundwater
Amid a long, harsh summer and drought in many parts of the country, Rajasthan has become one of the states where over-extraction of ground water is leading to depletion at alarming levels.
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Battling Water Crisis, Rajasthan Works To Make Villages Self-Reliant
Under the scorching Rajasthani sun of the Mehru Kalan village in Ajmer district, 300 volunteers are hard at work trying to bring water to a settlement that hasn’t had adequate groundwater in the last 5 years. Almost entirely reliant on water tankers, Mehru Kalan is one of the 13,500 villages in the state where the groundwater level has been deple...
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Rajasthan Government to Undertake Water Conservation Programme
Rajasthan government has decided to undertake water conservation programme using rain-water harvesting techniques for villages reeling under drinking water shortage.
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Rajasthan Passes Bill to Manage Water Resources
The Rajasthan Assembly on Wednesday passed the Rajasthan River Basin and Water Resources Planning Bill, 2015 by voice vote.
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Delayed monsoon worsens water crisis in Rajasthan
As the heat continues to remain oppressive in Rajasthan and with little sign of the monsoon's arrival, water scarcity has worsened in the state. With the monsoon delayed by nearly two weeks, the Bisalpur Dam, the main source of water for the cities of Jaipur and Ajmer is in danger of drying up by July 30.The Rajasthan and Gehlot government have pre...
