India, April 8 -- The drought in Marathwada is clearly a human-made disaster, due to the mismanagement of water, say experts

It is a colossal failure. A decade of work and an expenditure of nearly Rs 10,000 crore later, a scheme touted by the Maharashtra government as a silver bullet for the state's drought-related problems has come a cropper.

The Jalyukt Shivar Abhiyan (JSA) has created a total of 24 thousand cubic metres (TCM) of water storage, with an irrigation potential of 3.4 million hectares.

That is just enough to provide 487 people with water for an entire year calculated as per the 135 litre per capita per day (LPCD) norm for a Tier I city (with a population of 100,000 or more, according to the 2001 Census of India), as per S...