Beed Water Crisis

Deficient rainfall has poured cold water on civil society efforts to solve the perennial water crisis in Beed district of Maharashtra, leaving farmers staring at crop losses.

In Maharashtra's drought-hit Beed, 11-year-old Sachin Kengar went this morning to get water from the well near his village. In the parched district, it is one of the many deep wells in which water has mostly dried up and pooled at the bottom. While trying to get to the water 30 feet down, Sachin slipped and fell. In disturbing visuals, his...

Marathwada is reeling under the worst drought in recent years, pushing hundreds of locals to migrate to cities in search of livelihood, with Beed witnessing a steep rise in farmer suicides accounting for 105 cases in August itself.

Even before summers, when wells run too dry to draw water from pitchers, villages in Marathwada are lowering its very children into the wells by ropes. This is a grim tale from a village, ironically a part of the constituency of Maharashtra's Rural Welfare Minister, Pankaja Munde.

All six units of the Parli thermal power plant in Beed district of Maharashtra have been shut down because of severe water shortage in the Marathwada region. The plant used to receive water from the Khadka dam but the supply was stopped as the water level in the dam has almost dried up.

Deficient rainfall has poured cold water on civil society efforts to solve the perennial water crisis in Beed district of Maharashtra, leaving farmers staring at crop losses.

In Maharashtra's drought-hit Beed, 11-year-old Sachin Kengar went this morning to get water from the well near his village. In the parched district, it is one of the many deep wells in which water has mostly dried up and pooled at the bottom. While trying to get to the water 30 feet down, Sachin slipped and fell. In disturbing visuals, his...

Marathwada is reeling under the worst drought in recent years, pushing hundreds of locals to migrate to cities in search of livelihood, with Beed witnessing a steep rise in farmer suicides accounting for 105 cases in August itself.

Even before summers, when wells run too dry to draw water from pitchers, villages in Marathwada are lowering its very children into the wells by ropes. This is a grim tale from a village, ironically a part of the constituency of Maharashtra's Rural Welfare Minister, Pankaja Munde.

All six units of the Parli thermal power plant in Beed district of Maharashtra have been shut down because of severe water shortage in the Marathwada region. The plant used to receive water from the Khadka dam but the supply was stopped as the water level in the dam has almost dried up.