Thar Desert, India
Prabhupada, London, November 25, 1973 : Drought, so many places, last two-three years. So kaman, our necessities of life, from material point of view, it is fulfilled by rainfall from the sky. If there is no rainfall, you cannot produce anything. This is the description during the reign of Maharaja Yudhisthira. Maharaja Yudhisthira was the king of this earth, and he was so pious that on account of his piety, Krsna supplied everything sumptuously.
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Hydrology:
Northern India’s Groundwater Is Going, Going, Going …
Richard A. Kerr, ScienceMag.org, 14 August 2009:Satellite remote sensing of a 2000-kilometer swath running from eastern Pakistan across northern India and into Bangladesh has for the first time put a solid number on how quickly the region is depleting its groundwater: 54 cubic kilometers of groundwater are being lost per year from the world’s most intensively irrigated region hosting 600 million people, according to a study in press. Another paper published this week has reached similar conclusions.
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