Once a thriving farming community, the villages of rural India now faced an alarming crisis. Rising suicide rates among farmers had aroused concern from experts… Read More »Climate change and droughts: Why Indian farmers are taking their own lives?
The India Meteorological Department (IMD), the Aridity Anomaly Outlook Index revealed that about 78 per cent of India’s districts are experiencing drought-like conditions from May… Read More »Drought crisis hits over 500 districts in India: IMD’s latest report
A recent study by researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, published in the journal PLOS Water, explores the relationship between hydrological changes (such as… Read More »Water quality under threat: land use shifts drive 69% increase in water extraction
A new study published Thursday reveals that the ongoing drought in the Horn of Africa, which includes Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya, is now 100 times… Read More »Horn of Africa faces worst drought, worsened by climate change
The distortion of the water cycle, particularly its extremes (droughts and rains), will be among the consequences of climate change in the future. This is… Read More »Droughts and rains could be more extreme, due to global warming
In water-scarce regions, droughts pose a critical challenge to urban water security for low-income households. Droughts reduce water availability, forcing water providers to invest in… Read More »Droughts can make water unaffordable for low-income households
