Where Will the Water Go?

Madhavankutty Pillai

Linking the IPL with Maharashtra’s drought is clever but silly

Journalist P Sainath blames the state’s skewed water policies

It’s been an agri annus horribilis. The crops spared by drought were hit by floods. And now food prices are headed skywards.

India faces a drought unprecedented in scale and impact. A crisis that will test the government’s aam aadmi agenda to the limit.

At what point does water scarcity change into drought? That’s a tricky one

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