Vishwanath S.

A workshop on groundwater was organised by ACWADAM and Arghyam Trust in Pune in May 2009, that brought together several experts in the field, and explored diverse topics such as the importance of scale in groundwater resource planning and management, importance of aquifer typologies, participatory processes of groundwater management, groundwater regulation and groundwater linkages with watershed development, markets and policy matters.

The attempt of the workshop and research papers presented, was to highlight contemporary issues in groundwater management, and to look at it through the multiple lenses of hydrogeology, sociology, economics, livelihoods, environment, disasters and so on.

Case Studies on Drinking Water from the popular website Indiatogether.org

"Rural water supply: The Hebballi experience", a report by S Vishwanath, written in August 2007, is the story of the village of Hebballi in the Krishna river basin, which is a striking example of a successful and sustainable piped water supply in rural India.

"Water meters help consumers, suppliers", is a note by S Vishwanath, written in November 2006, on how water meters can address the demands of the poor powerfully, and can help consumers have a much better chance of being heard than otherwise.