Maharashtra gifts farmers’ water to industries - Dams, Rivers and People - Newsletter from SANDRP of March 2011

• Maharashtra gifts farmers’ water to industries
  Between 2005 & 2010, a High Powered Committee was constituted by the Maharashtra Minister for Water Resources which recommended the diversion of 1500 MCM water from 38 dams across Maharashtra to cities and industries.

• CIC orders CWC to disclose the Almatti study in public interest
  In a significant order for transparency in water resources information, the Central Information Commission has asked the Central Water Commission to disclose the back water level study of the Almatti and Hippangi Reservoirs on Krishna River in Karnataka in public interest under the RTI act.

• Bihar success story on System of Crop Intensification
  The Bihar Rural Livelihoods Project, locally known as JEEViKA is being implemented by Bihar Rural Livelihoods Promotion Society (BRLPS), an independent Society under the Department of Finance, Government of Bihar.

• A review of Krishna water disputes tribunal-2 report
  It is presumed many times that downstream state is demanding unjustifiable share of water from the upstream river basin states. But we should understand the contribution of downstream state of a river basin in a correct perspective.

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