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‎Impact of drought on economy

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‎Droughts in India

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‎Punjab and Haryana: Drought years since 1998

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‎Droughts in India

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 Tens of thousands of small farmers also abandoned their land and moved to cities, while others killed themselves rather than face life in an urban shanty town.
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 There is likely an impact on children and women health besides farm debt increase due to loss in livestock and farm economy in the drought-hit districts, it said.
 The drought would create inflationary pressures making the food management an imperative challenge for the government and the policy makers, he added.
 =Central aid for drought stricken states=

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 ==Drought-proofing in India: 1960s-90s==
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 ''The graphic compares South West Monsoon rainfall data for all geographically divisions historically to find where their measures for 2016, 2017 and 2018 are placed''
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 Punjab currently has a monsoon shortfall of 36% and Haryana 34%. These deficits are likely to grow as little rain is expected after the monsoon withdraws. Last year the two states received around 50% of normal monsoon rainfall.
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+==2016- 18, rainfall for all geographical divisions==
 [[File: The graphic compares South West Monsoon rainfall data for all geographically divisions historically to find where their measures for 2016, 2017 and 2018 are placed.jpg|The graphic compares South West Monsoon rainfall data for all geographically divisions historically to find where their measures for 2016, 2017 and 2018 are placed <br/> From: [https://epaper.thehindu.com/Home/ShareImage?Pictureid=GIR5BFELQ.1&fbclid=IwAR0j-PAPS0Z6ddNFJkKxwMqrUXK8z9yeGIk8Od69pHY-XGDbXFQG4JWIHpU  January 30, 2019: ''The Hindu'']|frame|500px]]

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	Punjab currently has a monsoon shortfall of 36% and Haryana 34%. These deficits are likely to grow as little rain is expected after the monsoon withdraws. Last year the two states received around 50% of normal monsoon rainfall.		Punjab currently has a monsoon shortfall of 36% and Haryana 34%. These deficits are likely to grow as little rain is expected after the monsoon withdraws. Last year the two states received around 50% of normal monsoon rainfall.
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		+	==2016- 18, ==
		+	[[File: The graphic compares South West Monsoon rainfall data for all geographically divisions historically to find where their measures for 2016, 2017 and 2018 are placed.jpg\|The graphic compares South West Monsoon rainfall data for all geographically divisions historically to find where their measures for 2016, 2017 and 2018 are placed <br/> From: [https://epaper.thehindu.com/Home/ShareImage?Pictureid=GIR5BFELQ.1&fbclid=IwAR0j-PAPS0Z6ddNFJkKxwMqrUXK8z9yeGIk8Od69pHY-XGDbXFQG4JWIHpU January 30, 2019: ''The Hindu'']\|frame\|500px]]
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		+	'''See graphic''':
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		+	''The graphic compares South West Monsoon rainfall data for all geographically divisions historically to find where their measures for 2016, 2017 and 2018 are placed''

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	Punjab currently has a monsoon shortfall of 36% and Haryana 34%. These deficits are likely to grow as little rain is expected after the monsoon withdraws. Last year the two states received around 50% of normal monsoon rainfall.		Punjab currently has a monsoon shortfall of 36% and Haryana 34%. These deficits are likely to grow as little rain is expected after the monsoon withdraws. Last year the two states received around 50% of normal monsoon rainfall.
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		+	=2000: `Europe's pollution caused drought in India'=
		+	[http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/european-pollution-india-drought-worst-ever-sulphur-dioxide-geo-engineering-grantham-institute-a7694491.html Ian Johnston Environment Correspondent, European pollution helped cause one of India's worst-ever droughts, researchers show, April 21, 2017: Independent]
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		+	''''The monsoon's bountiful rain is crucial to the economy and to livelihoods in the region''''
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		+	Pollution from Europe helped cause a drought in India that was one of the country’s worst ever natural disasters, affecting more than 130 million people, according to new research.
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		+	Sulphur dioxide – produced mainly by coal-fired power plants – causes a number of harmful effects, such as acid rain, heart and lung diseases, and damage to plant growth.
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		+	But sulphate aerosols also have a cooling effect on the atmosphere because it reflects sunlight back into space, a property that has led some to suggest it could be used as a form of ‘geo-engineering’ to reduce the rate of global warming.
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		+	However, emissions from the northern hemisphere can change the relative rate of warming in the south, causing the tropical rain-band to shift – with potentially devastating results.
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		+	Now researchers at Imperial College London have calculated just how big an effect emissions of sulphur dioxide had on rainfall in India in 2000.
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		+	The north-west of India experienced a staggering drop in precipitation of about 40 per cent because of emissions from the northern hemisphere’s main industrial areas.
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		+	Europe’s emissions alone caused reductions of up to 10 per cent in the north-west and south-west regions.
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		+	One of the researchers, Dr Apostolos Voulgarakis, of ICL’s Grantham Institute, said the study showed how emissions in one part of the world could have a significant effect on another – even if the pollution itself didn’t actually get there.
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		+	“East Asia is contributing more [of an effect] because it’s closer, but there is an effect from Europe and also the US,” he told The Independent.
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		+	Dr Voulgarakis said their research, along with other studies, showed the kind of problems that might result from attempts to use sulphur dioxide in a geo-engineering scheme.
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		+	“Geo-engineering has generally suggested to be problematic because of the knock-on effects it could have,” he said.
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		+	“This research shows one of those reasons as it can affect rainfall quite dramatically.”
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		+	The figures were produced using a climate model which Dr Voulgarakis said tended to give results on the high side of the range produced by different methods.
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		+	A briefing note prepared by Grantham researchers about the techniques to assess air pollutants said they could have “complex and diverse” effects.
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		+	Sulphate aerosols could “cool the atmosphere and so off-set some global warming” but “also increase air pollution levels and cause drought”.
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		+	“The impacts of short-lived pollutant emissions on air quality and climate change vary greatly depending on both the region where emissions occur and the location of the affected region,” it said.
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		+	“The climate effects of air pollutants are best assessed on a region-by-region basis, and are not easily captured by global metrics.”
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		+	It suggested air pollution and global warming should be dealt with as a single issue.
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		+	“Air quality and climate policy should be designed simultaneously to maximise beneficial outcome,” the briefing note said.
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		+	As the harmful effects of sulphur dioxide became clear, the European Union worked to reduce emissions.
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		+	A switch away from fuels with high levels of sulphur saw a 74 per cent reduction between 1990 and 2011.
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		+	By 2011, sulphur dioxides were less than half the amount in 2000.
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		+	In a blog post, Dilshad Shawki, a PhD student at the Grantham Institute, described how important understanding rainfall was, particularly in India and the surrounding area.
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		+	“Each summer the South Asian monsoon drenches the Indian subcontinent, as strong moisture-laden winds from the Indian Ocean deliver over 70 per cent of the region’s annual rainfall in just three months.
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		+	“As such, the monsoon’s bountiful rain is crucial to the economy and to livelihoods in the region.
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		+	“In recent decades however, rising pollution levels and increases in global surface temperatures have influenced atmospheric circulation patterns in the tropics, in turn affecting monsoon rainfall patterns.
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		+	“The challenge for scientists, including myself, is to gain a better appreciation of these relationships in order to build more accurate forecasts. Understanding and predicting monsoon rainfall is of huge importance to those societies that have developed following its rhythms.”
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		+	Despite the fall in European sulphur dioxide emissions, India’s droughts have continued as the world has got warmer.
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		+	In 2016, the country saw its highest temperature on record – a sweltering 51 degrees Celsius (123.8F). Hundreds of people died as crops failed in more than 13 states.
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		+	Tens of thousands of small farmers also abandoned their land and moved to cities, while others killed themselves rather than face life in an urban shanty town.

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-[http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=Over-25-of-Indias-population-hit-by-drought-20042016001034 ''The Times of India''], Apr 20 2016
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-[[File: Number of districts suffering drought and population affected, state-wise.jpg|Number of districts suffering drought and population affected, state-wise; Graphic courtesy: [http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=Over-25-of-Indias-population-hit-by-drought-20042016001034 ''The Times of India''], Apr 20 2016|frame|500px]]
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-'''Over 25% of India's population hit by drought, Centre tells SC'''
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-AmitAnand Choudhary
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-A staggering 33 crore people, or more than a quarter of the country's population, are in the grip of drought and consequently fa PARCHED LAND: P 11 & 22 ce drinking water shortage and agricultural distress, the Centre informed the Supreme Court on Tuesday .
-The government said it was releasing money to the affected states from its disaster fund to tackle the crisis. Additional solicitor general P S Narasimha, who submitted the data before the court on the basis of figures furnished by 10 states, said Rs 7,321 crore was released on Monday under MGNREGS in addition to Rs 12,230 crore disbursed earlier this month. He said more than 21 lakh households were granted more than 100 days of employment under the rural job scheme in these states.
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-But the number of people hit by the drought could be higher as Bihar and Haryana haven't declared such a condition despite shortfall in rain.The report stating that 2.55 lakh villages living in 254 districts are drought-affected was placed before Justices Madan B Lokur and N V Ramana.
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-Interestingly , the Centre did not mention the crisis prevailing in Gujarat despite the state itself admitting on the last date of hearing that more than 637 villages were facing severe water shortage. Taking exception to the decision to not include Gujarat among drought-hit states, the Supreme Court bench asked “why special treatment was being given to the state“. The additional solicitor general replied that this was a mistake and “there is nothing behind the scene and the Gujarat figure would also be placed before the court“.
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-Drought conditions have forced governments to undertake emergency measures like running water trains in Maharashtra, while a public outcry over “wasting“ water led to IPL matches being moved out of Maharashtra on court orders. Politics has heated up, too, over incidents like use of water to settle dust at a heli pad prepared for a VIP inspection in Karnataka.
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-ASG P S Narasimha clarified that figures of drought-hit people have been furnished by states and might be somewhat `misleading' as they had perhaps included entire populations in a drought-hit district.
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-As per figures placed before the SC, 254 out of total 678 districts in the country are under the spell of drought; the worst-hit state is UP where 9.88 crore people are affected due to rain deficit in 50 districts.
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-Narasimha told the bench that the government is taking all effective steps to handle the crisis and more funds are being released. He said drought is covered as a natural disaster under the Disaster Management Act and money is being released from the national and state disaster funds.
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-==Water trains==
-===To Bundelkhand===
-[http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=Water-train-carries-politics-to-parched-Bundelkhand-06052016009009 ''The Times of India''], May 06 2016
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-'''Water train carries politics to parched Bundelkhand'''
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-Slamming the brakes on a water train sent by the Centre for the parched Bundelkhand, the UP government on Thursday said the crisis was “not as serious“ as in Maharashtra's Latur.BJP accused the Samajwadi Party government of “gross insensitivity“ and asked it to make use of the train to ferry water to the parched region.
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-The state government, however, requested the Centre to provide it 10,000 tankers for distributing water in the region. “UPCM @yadavakhilesh requests GOI for 10,000 road tankers to distribute water in Bundelkhand from available water resources around the region (sic),“ the CM's office tweeted.
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-Bundelkhand is facing a crippling shortage of water and with an eye on the 2017 assembly polls, political parties are trying to take credit for resolving the crisis.
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-SP, which is in office, has accused local BJP members of asking the Centre for a water train to snatch credit from the Akhilesh Yadav government, which has distributed relief packets in the region.
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-A train with 10 empty wag ons has reached Jhansi. “The wagons are ready to be filled with water from a reservoir for dispatch to the destination as and when needed,“ commercial officer, Jhansi railway division, Girish Kanchan said.
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-Reacting to UP government's refusal to accept the water train, railway minister Suresh Prabhu said the Centre doesn't want to do any politics on the issue and all possible help would be provided to the state government.
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-BJP accused the SP government of “gross insensitivity“ after the alleged starvation death of a Dalit in Bundelkhand. It asked the SP govern ment to focus on providing relief to drought-hit farmers instead of spending money on publicity . “The Centre has helped the drought-hit people by sending a water train and the state should capitalise on it rather than making it a political issue,“ BJP spokesperson Shrikant Sharma said.
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-==Marathwada==
-[http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=DAY-PUN-Only-2-of-water-left-in-03052016009026 ''The Times of India''], May 3, 2016
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-Priyanka Kakodkar
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-''' Only 2% of water left in Marathwada dams '''
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-There is only 2% of water left in dams in drought-struck Marathwada, with a month and a half to go before the monsoon sets in.
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-Eight of the region's 11 major dams are at dead storage level. Water from the dams has to be li from the dams has to be lifted as it cannot flow out. The Manjara and Lower Terna dams have run totally dry . In 2015, at this time, the water level in those dams was higher at 10%. This is the fourth year of drought in Marathwada in the last five years. The state government says there is enough water to last the region till monsoon. “We are hopeful the monsoon will come earlier,“ said state water resources mini ster Girish Mahajan.
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-Rainfall across the state has been deficient since 2014.Dams across the state have only 16% water left, compared to 27% at this time in 2015.Dam water levels in north and western Maharashtra have halved compared to last year. Water levels in western Maharashtra's dams have dropped from 32% to 16% at this time in 2015.
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-Activist Kishor Tiwari, who is heading a task force for farmers, said the government should enforce a cutback in cultivation of waterguzzling sugarcane in favour of more sustainable crops.
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-===Wells dry up first time in 100 years===
-[http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=Wells-dry-up-first-time-in-100-years-24042016018016 ''The Times of India''], Apr 24 2016
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-Syed Rizwanullah
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-''' Wells dry up first time in 100 years '''
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-[[File: A well in drought-ridden Marathwada.jpg| A well in drought-ridden Marathwada, Photo by Narayan Wale; Picture courtesy: [http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=Wells-dry-up-first-time-in-100-years-24042016018016 ''The Times of India''], Apr 24 2016|frame|500px]]
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-Marathwada has seen terrible droughts before. But never before did the two oldest wells in Wadval Nagnath village in Chakur taluka of Latur dry up. These wells have been around over 100 years.
-About eighty other wells -both old and new -situated in and around the Wadval-Nagnath too have almost dried up. Few borewells are functioning. “The owners have decided not to use the water for their crops but have opened the wells to the public,'' says sarpanch Shilpatai Rajkumar Bendke.
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-The water in the well owned by Annasaheb and Ambadas Patil has turned so muddy that it can't be used for drinking. Raosaheb Bhanje's well is dilapidated but the water is potable. “But it's risky. Sometimes people slip and fall in. But, we manage to rescue them,'' says Bendke. The village gets two tankers a day to service its population of about 10,000. “We store the water and then it pump it into the overhead tank. It is supplied to the village for a few minutes. But it isn't enough,'' she says.
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-==Karnataka==
-===Talakaveri===
-[http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=Wells-run-dry-in-Cauverys-birthplace-24042016018028 ''The Times of India''], Apr 24 2016
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-''' Wells run dry in Cauvery's birthplace '''
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-Madikeri
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-The irony can't be harsher. Talakaveri, the birthplace of the Cauvery river, has no drinking water left.
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-The open well in the village has dried up, causing hardship to pilgrims and residents alike. If the situation continues, residents say , priests at the temple will be forced to fetch water from the holy pond  something done only during Teerthodbhava, an annual occurrence in which the goddess Cauvery is believed to emerge from a tiny pond in the form of a holy spring.
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-Kodagu district, known for its cool weather, has this year recorded a high of 30 degrees.
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-Efforts by the Kodagu zilla panchayat to bring water from the Kanike, a tributary of the Cauvery , has not yielded results due to “improper supervision“.
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