Ujani Dam, a crucial water source for Solapur and surrounding regions, has reached dead stock despite being full post-monsoon. Excessive irrigation and evaporation depleted its live water reserves.

Balasaheb Solanki, a 52-year-old farmer from Parbhani district in Maharashtra’s Marathwada region, is keen to cultivate sugarcane, oilseeds and pulses for the rabi season (winter harvest), which ...

Water and Irrigation CS Eric Mugaa wants engineers to comeup with sustainable designs for bulk water harvesting solutions like sand damsfor arid and semi-arid areas.Mugaa said the move would be a big ...

Erode: Tamil Nadu housing and urban development minister S Muthusamy and information and publicity minister Vellakoil M P Saminathan opened the sluice gates of Bhavanisagar dam on Thursday to release ...

"We didn't think [they] would move so much." Scientists point to unexpected side effects of knocking down river dams first ...

The Coordination Committee of All Farmers Associations of Tamil Nadu has urged the Tamil Nadu government to divert the water available at Bhavanisagar dam to save the standing ‘samba’ crop in delta ...

Tamil Nadu Public Works Department engineers released water for irrigation and drinking purposes from Mullaperiyar dam at Thekkadi on Saturday. Executive Engineer Anbu Selvam and other officials ...

Nii Annan Adjor II, the Ashiaman regent, has complained about the rising level of pollution of the Ashiaman irrigation dam reservoir by encroachers of the scheme’s farmlands. Nii Adjor said people had ...

Indigenous communities in the Ilocos Norte province of the Philippines are opposing an irrigation project on the grounds that they have not been properly consulted on environmental risks, with the row ...

ISLAMABAD: Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA) Development Authority has completed seven small dams and 13 small irrigation schemes since 2004 to till date. The official source told APP here on ...