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... villages located in the worst droughtaffected regions of India had coped with yet another year of belowaverage ... droughts be called natural disasters? Not any more. Not in India. They are 'government-made' disasters. Over the past ... world, rainfall is variable and rainy days are few. In India, for instance, 50 per cent of the rain falls on about ...
This article is almost 17 years old.
... and corrupt bureaucracy. A growing movement, especially in India, but also in many other parts of the world, is now ... The first is just to use electricity more efficiently. In India, as much as half the electricity generated is lost ... estimate that big dams contribute less than 10 per cent to India’s grain production: Power Politics (South End Press ...
This article is almost 17 years old.
... hub of 1.5 million inhabitants located atop central India's Deccan plateau. It's where I grew up. There has been ... forth grandiose schemes to engineer water supplies to India's thirsty cities, complete with political rhetoric ... and profligacy by persistently poisoning our water. In India, where water is considered sacred, the notion that it ...
This article is almost 17 years old.
... on it. 1 Aquifers are most severely depleted in parts of India, China, the US, North Africa and the Middle East. It ...
