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How water inequality governs drought-hit Maharashtra


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dillip tripathy
Expert
by dillip tripathy on Jun 11, 2016 10:24 PM  | Hide replies

The article by the expert as above has no use. It has not suggested anything how to tackle the situation. Why these type of experts and persons in power in Maharashtra today are hesitant to call spade a spade. Why nobody dare to say ban sugarcane cultivation in the state which is depleting its ground water? Change to other crops.

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Sandeep Parekh
Re: Expert
by Sandeep Parekh on Jun 12, 2016 11:53 PM
exactly.. u nailed it


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ganesh pillai
Stop wastage
by ganesh pillai on Jun 04, 2016 12:26 PM

Where is the rainwater going in cities down the drains and running off into city. We are ourselves creating a drought situation.

Learn from Hirwae Bazaar, a village in Ahmednagar which has not faced any drought in the last 3 decades.

Basics are very simple and should be followed in every aspect of our life otherwise we have to pay the price.





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piri
The Maharashtra governments -
by piri on Jun 04, 2016 11:29 AM


both erstwhile as well as the current one - have been and are hard at work preparing the ground for a heightened naxalite insurgency in many rural areas !

And after making a vast segment of the rural population increasingly sympathetic to naxalite dogmas, the government will pretend surprise that naxalism is growing !

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arungopal agarwal
Water
by arungopal agarwal on Jun 02, 2016 06:05 PM

Yes barring drought conditions, water availability is the same, but need for water have gone 3-4 times due to unwanted population growth plus commercialisation of activities.

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Kersi Dotiwalla
WATER SHORTAGE IN MAHARASHTRA
by Kersi Dotiwalla on Jun 02, 2016 04:42 PM

I have seen a rather tragic sight, just outside Ahmednagar town, a couple of years ago.

There was long queue, mostly ladies and children to take water from a local well. And barely 100 m away a water tanker is irrigating a sugarcane field.

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shailesh
there is no impasse to this
by shailesh on Jun 02, 2016 02:53 PM  | Hide replies


(1) Limit amount of water farmers can take so that they move out of sugarcane growing and grow other crops.
(2) Systemetically, shut-down sugarcane factories so that the political gang cannot force farmers to grow sugar cane.
Reduce consumption of sugar in general.


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Kersi Dotiwalla
Re: there is no impasse to this
by Kersi Dotiwalla on Jun 02, 2016 04:44 PM
Shut down sugarcane factories ??
And how do you expect our poor netas to survive ?????? Work ???

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A VENKATESAN
Farmer
by A VENKATESAN on Jun 01, 2016 08:05 PM

should be govt employee, govt should take care of agriculture. then only we will be developed country like europeans. even sweeper is govt employee in india why not farmers, end of the day we are eating food because of them. we should not allow farmer sucide any where in india. Jai kishan.

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karunakar choudhary
drought-maharashtra
by karunakar choudhary on Jun 01, 2016 07:51 PM

Hurry up drought hit ppl and meet KCR .He Will give guidance for another bifurcation of Maharashtra.he knows how to kill mother state.

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chanakya maurya
Right to adequate water supply.
by chanakya maurya on Jun 01, 2016 06:43 PM

The quality of governance of a nation is measured in terms of citizens getting their right due.

Water is a basic necessity.

Bullets can wait.

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