by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 26, 2024 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Policy
The reduced storage levels in the southern region are indicative of worsening water scarcity and potential challenges for irrigation, drinking water supply and hydroelectric power generation in these states New Delhi: The southern region, encompassing states of Andhra...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 1, 2024 | Articles, Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, Risk Management, Workplace/Employee Benefits
Tech professionals are leaving India’s IT hub of Bengaluru amid an intensifying drought that has gripped the city as it sweats through another torrid pre-monsoon season, the Deccan Herald reported this month. More than half of the wells the city depends on for...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 23, 2024 | Data, Eco/Invest/Demography, Policy
“In collaboration with Jal Shakti ministry, we are exploring ways to maximize usage of surface water. For example, if water of a canal is presently irrigating 100 hectare of agricultural land, how can we take it to 150 hectare using various means but same amount...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 21, 2024 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Policy
In other industrial states such as Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and agricultural states Uttar Pradesh and Punjab levels are below their 10-year averages. Longer term, there is a risk of water wars if governments do not act now, said Sandeep Anirudhan, convener of the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 11, 2024 | Data, Eco/Invest/Demography
“These water scarcity hotspots were mainly distributed in southern parts of North America, Europe, parts of Northern Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, India, China, and Southeast Asia,” the researchers wrote. In 2050, one-third of global river sub-basins are...
