Is Northwestern India's Breadbasket Running Out of Water?
Wednesday, August 12, 2009 - 16:28
in Earth & Climate
The fields of barley, rice and wheat that feed much of India are running out of water, according to a new study based on satellite data and published online in Nature today. The heartland of last century's Green Revolution lost 109 cubic kilometers of water from its Indus River plain aquifer between August 2002 and October 2008. ( Scientific American is part of the Nature Publishing Group.) [More]