Rajasthan Water Crisis

With summer approaching, villagers in some of the driest areas of Rajasthan have started digging for groundwater.

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has slammed Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat on the issue of water shortage in the state.

A Dalit boy's death in Rajasthan after his teacher allegedly assaulted him for drinking water from a pot meant for "upper castes" threatens to turn into a political crisis for the ruling Congress.

Jaipur is staring at a serious risk of running out of water in a month if there is no rain, according to the Rajasthan Public Health Engineering Department.

Water crisis is spreading across north India as the temperature continues its upward march. While Himachal Pradesh capital Shimla has barely enough to drink, parts of Rajasthan's Ajmer is locking up its water drums to prevent theft. In villages of eastern Uttar Pradesh, women are walking miles to fill their pitchers. The water crisis is Shimla has...

With temperature staying put at 45 degrees Celsius across Rajasthan, taps have run dry and large blue containers with locks fixed on them have become a common sight in this village where water is considered "gold". There isn't enough drinking water, and at a few places, sewage water is being supplied to homes.

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...

The desert state of Rajasthan is sinking further into a water crisis as the summer peaks. 13,500 villages do not have access to safe drinking water, surviving solely at the mercy of water tankers sent by the government.

The Public Interest Litigation said there is an acute water crisis in Jaipur and entire Rajasthan and thus the matches would be a wastage of water.

The desert state of Rajasthan is in the grip of a water crisis with 19 out of the 33 districts being famine affected, with the government sending water trains to parched Bhilwara and tankers to other areas facing acute shortage.

A massive power breakdown in northern India - it's the worst northern grid failure since 2001 -has affected water supply in seven states. Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Uttaranchal had no electricity for seven hours since 2:30 am.

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...

For a group of rural women in Alwar, an unique song asking their MP to give them water worked wonders.

With summer approaching, villagers in some of the driest areas of Rajasthan have started digging for groundwater.

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has slammed Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat on the issue of water shortage in the state.

A Dalit boy's death in Rajasthan after his teacher allegedly assaulted him for drinking water from a pot meant for "upper castes" threatens to turn into a political crisis for the ruling Congress.

Jaipur is staring at a serious risk of running out of water in a month if there is no rain, according to the Rajasthan Public Health Engineering Department.

Water crisis is spreading across north India as the temperature continues its upward march. While Himachal Pradesh capital Shimla has barely enough to drink, parts of Rajasthan's Ajmer is locking up its water drums to prevent theft. In villages of eastern Uttar Pradesh, women are walking miles to fill their pitchers. The water crisis is Shimla has...

With temperature staying put at 45 degrees Celsius across Rajasthan, taps have run dry and large blue containers with locks fixed on them have become a common sight in this village where water is considered "gold". There isn't enough drinking water, and at a few places, sewage water is being supplied to homes.

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...

The desert state of Rajasthan is sinking further into a water crisis as the summer peaks. 13,500 villages do not have access to safe drinking water, surviving solely at the mercy of water tankers sent by the government.

The Public Interest Litigation said there is an acute water crisis in Jaipur and entire Rajasthan and thus the matches would be a wastage of water.

The desert state of Rajasthan is in the grip of a water crisis with 19 out of the 33 districts being famine affected, with the government sending water trains to parched Bhilwara and tankers to other areas facing acute shortage.

A massive power breakdown in northern India - it's the worst northern grid failure since 2001 -has affected water supply in seven states. Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Uttaranchal had no electricity for seven hours since 2:30 am.

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...

For a group of rural women in Alwar, an unique song asking their MP to give them water worked wonders.