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Title: 60% districts in India cannot stand drought, says study
Source:The Hindustan Times
Date:15 August 2018

Three out of every five districts in India are not prepared for a drought, says a study by the Indian Institutes of Technology at Indore (IIT-I) and Guwahati (IIT-G), highlighting the need for effective agriculture and water management. Using data based on remote sensing from National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer sensor, the two members prepared a high resolution ecosystem resilience map of India from 2000 to 2014 and found that only 241 of the 634 districts, or 38%, were resilient to droughts. The study considered daily rainfall records from 6,955 rain gauge stations across India from 1901 to 2015 by the India Meteorological Department (IMD).




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