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Video: Water Crisis Forces Maharashtra Villagers To Descend Into Well
The people of Koshimpada village in Maharashtra's Nashik are experiencing a dire water crisis. The village has been without water, and residents are forced to descend into a well to fill their pots.
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Water Crisis In Maharashtra's Raigad, Collective Stock In Dams At 35%
Several villages in coastal Raigad district of Maharashtra are currently reeling under acute water shortage and the local administration has started taking various relief measures like providing water through tankers and digging wells.
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Marathwada Water Grid To Cater Needs Of Parched Region: Devendra Fadnavis
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis today said his government was planning to ensure piped drinking water supply in every village of the parched Marathwada region through a water grid.
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Water Crisis Hits Maharashtra Villages Despite State's Drought-Free Goal
A village in Aurangabad, some 400 km from state capital Mumbai, is grappling with severe water crisis after the canals here ran dry recently.
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12 Villages To Boycott Maharashtra Lok Sabha By-Election To Protest Water Crisis
Residents of nearly 12 villages in Maharashtra's Bhandara district have decided to boycott the upcoming Bhandara-Gondia Lok Sabha by-election, after failing to get a response over their demand for proper irrigation facilities.
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Villages In Maharashtra Compete To Save Water. And Everyone Wins
Over four thousand villages across drought-hit Maharashtra will participate in a game that will not only help them combat the severe water crisis facing the state but win one the villages a cash prize: Water Cup 2018.
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This Crowd-Funded Scheme Could Curb Farmer Suicides In Maharashtra
A flagship micro-irrigation scheme of the state government, that wants to end dependency on large dams and move to village-level projects for harvesting and conserving water, is beginning to yield results, farmers in Yavatmal's Kolura village say.
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Children Skip School to be Lowered into Wells to Fetch Water
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.
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Drought-hit farmers allege Sharad Pawar's partymen are stealing their water
Drought has tightened its grip over Maharashtra. But ask the people of the drought hit village of Ropala, in Solapur district, the epicentre of Maharahstra's drought, and they will tell you it is a crisis created not by nature, but political clout.
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Video: Water Crisis Forces Maharashtra Villagers To Descend Into Well
The people of Koshimpada village in Maharashtra's Nashik are experiencing a dire water crisis. The village has been without water, and residents are forced to descend into a well to fill their pots.
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Water Crisis In Maharashtra's Raigad, Collective Stock In Dams At 35%
Several villages in coastal Raigad district of Maharashtra are currently reeling under acute water shortage and the local administration has started taking various relief measures like providing water through tankers and digging wells.
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Marathwada Water Grid To Cater Needs Of Parched Region: Devendra Fadnavis
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis today said his government was planning to ensure piped drinking water supply in every village of the parched Marathwada region through a water grid.
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Water Crisis Hits Maharashtra Villages Despite State's Drought-Free Goal
A village in Aurangabad, some 400 km from state capital Mumbai, is grappling with severe water crisis after the canals here ran dry recently.
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12 Villages To Boycott Maharashtra Lok Sabha By-Election To Protest Water Crisis
Residents of nearly 12 villages in Maharashtra's Bhandara district have decided to boycott the upcoming Bhandara-Gondia Lok Sabha by-election, after failing to get a response over their demand for proper irrigation facilities.
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Villages In Maharashtra Compete To Save Water. And Everyone Wins
Over four thousand villages across drought-hit Maharashtra will participate in a game that will not only help them combat the severe water crisis facing the state but win one the villages a cash prize: Water Cup 2018.
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This Crowd-Funded Scheme Could Curb Farmer Suicides In Maharashtra
A flagship micro-irrigation scheme of the state government, that wants to end dependency on large dams and move to village-level projects for harvesting and conserving water, is beginning to yield results, farmers in Yavatmal's Kolura village say.
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Children Skip School to be Lowered into Wells to Fetch Water
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.
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Drought-hit farmers allege Sharad Pawar's partymen are stealing their water
Drought has tightened its grip over Maharashtra. But ask the people of the drought hit village of Ropala, in Solapur district, the epicentre of Maharahstra's drought, and they will tell you it is a crisis created not by nature, but political clout.
