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Keywords
Children
Climate (campaign title)
Climate change
Climate change impacts
Coal
Day
Drought
Dry
Farmers
KWCI (GPI)
Local population
Natural disasters
Outdoors
Pumps
Villages
Water
Women
Villagers Collecting Water in Maharashtra
Khomnal village of Mangalwheda taluka, Solapur district in Maharashtra has a population of about 1600. The drinking water bore wells and hand pumps provided by the Gram panchayat are still functional but the low yield from these water sources and the dependence of a large number of families on just one or two hand-pumps of the village indicates that the water scarcity is quite high in this village.
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No Fundraising
Unique identifier:
GP0STPOTX
Type:
Image
Shoot date:
06/03/2016
Locations:
Asia
,
India
,
Maharashtra
,
South Asia
Credit line:
© Subrata Biswas / Greenpeace
Size:
4500px × 3000px 3MB
Ranking:
★★★★★★ (B)
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Drought in Maharashtra, India
The State Government of Maharashtra has already declared 15747 villages of 12183 Gram Panchayats in 21 districts as drought affected, under relevant State regulations in October 2015.
Solapur is an arid district with normal rainfall averaging about 500 mm, which is quite low. The sugar cane cultivation in Solapur district and the sugar processing factories consume a huge volume of the stored water from Ujjani Dam. The drinking water needs of Solapur town is also met by the dam.
The 2015 monsoon provided a paltry 200 mm of rainfall, making it one of the worse affected districts in the drought of 2015-16.
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World Water Day 2016
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