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Farm policies intended to remove risk from the grain-producing economy have pulled India from the perennial fear of famine. But inefficient bureaucracy and rampant corruption also promote the squandering of resources and a glut of food that is not reaching the poor.
A quickly advancing monsoon covered India by June 16, the earliest date on record and one month before usual, AlertNet reported. The early rains will help improve the growth and yields of summer crops like rice and soybeans, analysts said. Scarce Water Supplies Tight water supplies are getting even tighter in Jordan, as half a […]
Israel has solved many of the same water quality and supply problems that India is facing. So, The New York Times reported, engineers and others are turning to their Israeli counterparts for advice, particularly related to drip irrigation and desalination. Klamath Battle Now that a historic confrontation over Upper Klamath Basin rights has ended, tribal […]
India’s resource problems are not those of scarcity, but rather of inefficient use and bureaucratic policies.
After spending a month in India, Circle of Blue’s India team members debrief their findings.
Thanks in large part to the Green Revolution that catalyzed grain production in the mid-1960s, India ended the perennial fear of famine. But achieving food abundance has overwhelmed India’s mammoth and unwieldy bureaucracy, drained its freshwater reserves, and strained the energy sector and electrical grid.
Circle of Blue design intern Laura Stegmeyer reflects on her first week.
In India, there is nothing to do but watch as crops, trees and even homes fall into the Brahmaputra River’s ever shifting path, The New York Times reported. The river is an essential source of water and life, but is simultaneously causing villagers to relocate every year as a precaution against erosion. Climate Change Refugees […]
Better water management is necessary for environmental and public health, as well as economic development. Photo J. Carl Ganter/Circle of Blute In Punjab, India, a farmer irrigates his crops by pumping groundwater and flooding channels along the field. Click image to enlarge. By 2050, India’s water demand is forecasted to increase by 66 percent to […]
It’s been a couple of weeks since our Circle of Blue team completed its 27-day research trip to India.
India’s climate outlook in the upcoming century is bleak, according to an analysis of eighteen different climate models reported in The Hindu. Average annual surface temperatures are expected to rise by 4-7 degrees Celsius, part of a warmer world with heat waves severe drought, and major floods, according to a World Bank-sponsored report. Read the […]
Cauvery River Dispute The Hindu reported that water releases from Karnataka’s Krishnaraja Sagar reservoir have stopped on Monday night, due to poor storage in the reservoirs. The Karnataka government submitted an affidavit to the Supreme Court earlier Monday to review the Supreme Court’s September 19th ruling to release 9,000 cusecs of water to the Tamil […]
