El Niños have typically meant turbulence in India - a country where much of the working population depends on rainfed fields for their livelihood. That's because an El Nino make those life giving rains far more capricious. The really monster El Niños have changed India forever. For this piece I have focussed on the El …
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Photo by Ray Bilcliff on Pexels.com Many of the seeds of the our tangled thicket of a water crisis originate in colonial times - a penchant for growing crops unsuited to local climes, a centralized control-and-command approach to irrigation and water supply, and a certain disdain for traditional water technologies that 'get' India's water. We've …
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