<p class="title">Drought-prone Marathwada region in Maharashtra will soon have a water grid for better management of water resources from its dams.</p>.<p class="title">The Maharashtra government signed a MoU with Mekorot Development & Enterprise Ltd, the government-owned company of Israel, to design the grid.</p>.<p class="title">Israel records very low rainfall but effectively manages water resources.</p>.<p class="title">"We are also signing MoU for a huge water grid in Marathwada. We want to collaborate more with Israel for the welfare of our farmers," Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said at the Indo-Israel Business Summit, which was presided over by visting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on Thursday.</p>.<p class="title">The eight districts in Marathwada region - Aurangabad, Latur, Beed, Jalna, Hingoli, Nanded, Parbhani and Osmanabad - also face acute water shortage and drought-like conditions.</p>.<p class="title">The MoU was cleared in Wednesday's Cabinet meeting presided over by Fadnavis.</p>.<p class="title">According to reports, the project is estimated to cost nearly Rs 10,000 crore and aims to interlink major dams in Marathwada region for cost-effective use of available water, especially during droughts.</p>.<p class="title">It may be recalled in 2016, Jaldoot, a water wagon train, had to carry out over 100 trips from April 11 to August 9 from Sangli district to supply water to the Latur city.</p>.<p class="title">In 2015, the Marathwada region, particularly the three districts of Beed, Osmanabad and Latur faced the worst drought in a century. </p>
<p class="title">Drought-prone Marathwada region in Maharashtra will soon have a water grid for better management of water resources from its dams.</p>.<p class="title">The Maharashtra government signed a MoU with Mekorot Development & Enterprise Ltd, the government-owned company of Israel, to design the grid.</p>.<p class="title">Israel records very low rainfall but effectively manages water resources.</p>.<p class="title">"We are also signing MoU for a huge water grid in Marathwada. We want to collaborate more with Israel for the welfare of our farmers," Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said at the Indo-Israel Business Summit, which was presided over by visting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on Thursday.</p>.<p class="title">The eight districts in Marathwada region - Aurangabad, Latur, Beed, Jalna, Hingoli, Nanded, Parbhani and Osmanabad - also face acute water shortage and drought-like conditions.</p>.<p class="title">The MoU was cleared in Wednesday's Cabinet meeting presided over by Fadnavis.</p>.<p class="title">According to reports, the project is estimated to cost nearly Rs 10,000 crore and aims to interlink major dams in Marathwada region for cost-effective use of available water, especially during droughts.</p>.<p class="title">It may be recalled in 2016, Jaldoot, a water wagon train, had to carry out over 100 trips from April 11 to August 9 from Sangli district to supply water to the Latur city.</p>.<p class="title">In 2015, the Marathwada region, particularly the three districts of Beed, Osmanabad and Latur faced the worst drought in a century. </p>
