{
  "id": 5072177,
  "title": "If solar irrigation is over-drawing groundwater, you’re doing it wrong",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/02/if-solar-irrigation-is-over-drawing-groundwater-youre-doing-it-wrong",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-02T11:08:34.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hindu",
    "slug": "the-hindu",
    "url": "https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/energy-and-environment/if-solar-irrigation-is-over-drawing-groundwater-youre-doing-it-wrong/article71364311.ece"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Over the past five years, India’s agricultural solar program, PM-KUSUM, has installed over 2.5 million solar pumps, making them affordable for smallholder farmers through subsidies. As the government prepares PM-KUSUM 2.0, the challenge is to advance the clean energy transition without continuing to over-exploit groundwater",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}