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News roundup (22 - 31 October 2010) :" India: Land of many cell phones, but fewer toilets"
Posted on 03 Nov, 2010 08:50 AMWastewater/Sanitation
Judicious management of groundwater through participatory hydrological monitoring – A manual by APWELL
Posted on 23 Oct, 2010 06:56 PMParticipatory hydrological monitoring improves the users’ understanding of local groundwater resource characteristics and helps local communities to form a community opinion to support appropriate measures for managing the available resources equitably.
The Maharashtra groundwater (regulation for drinking water purposes) act - International Environmental Law Research Centre (1993)
Posted on 22 Oct, 2010 05:09 PMThe document describes the Maharashtra Groundwater Act, which is an Act to regulate the exploitation of groundwater for the protection of public drinking water sources and includes the details of :
Declaration of water scarcity area
Regulation of extraction of water from wells in water scarcity areas
Declaration of over exploited watershed
prohibition of sinking of well in over exploited watershed
Prohibition of extraction of water from an existing well for certain period
Closing down existing well
Power of entry upon any land for obtaining information
Power to stop contravention of the provisions of section 3, 5, 7, 8 or 9
Payment of compensation
Bar to claim compensationThe document describes the Maharashtra Groundwater Act, which is an Act to regulate the exploitation of groundwater for the protection of public drinking water sources and includes the details of :
- Short title and commencement of the Act
- Definitions of the terms used in the Act
- Protection measures for public drinking water sources
- Prohibition of construction of wells within certain limits
- Declaration of water scarcity area
- Regulation of extraction of water from wells in water scarcity areas
- Declaration of over exploited watershed
- Prohibition of sinking of well in over exploited watershed
- Prohibition of extraction of water from an existing well for certain period
- Closing down existing well
- Power of entry upon any land for obtaining information
- Power to stop contravention of the provisions of section 3, 5, 7, 8 or 9
- Payment of compensation
- Bar to claim compensation
"Gujarat farmers fight against climate change: Adopt technoloxxgy to conserve resources and maximize benefits" : News roundup (15-21 October 2010)
Posted on 22 Oct, 2010 11:25 AMClimate Change
An illustrated collection of groundwater problems: A guide to a beginner in groundwater hydrology by CAREWATER
Posted on 18 Oct, 2010 07:53 PMThis report by CAREWATER has been prepared as part of a component on Groundwater Governance in Asia: Theory and Practice under the CGIAR Challenge Programme on Water and Food. The purpose of this collection is to guide a beginner to groundwater hydrology through the basic concepts in this subject. The problems begin with fundamentals of the subject and are followed by those which test the comprehensiveness of understanding. Most problems are illustrated and a real-world situation is related with the problem.
Water Jobs via DevNetJobsIndia.org dated October 13, 2010
Posted on 13 Oct, 2010 01:46 PMContent Courtesy: DevNetJobsIndia
- Postdoctoral Fellow Quantitative Groundwater Hydrology
International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
Model bill to regulate and control the development of groundwater - Ministry of Water Resources (1996)
Posted on 12 Oct, 2010 10:51 AMThis document is a model bill for the regulation and control of the groundwater. It provides the details of the definitions and the process of implementation of the bill and includes:
- The title, extent and commencement of the Act
- Definitions of terms included in the Act
- Mode of establishment of a groundwater authority
- Details on powers to notify areas for control and regulation of groundwater and on the use of groundwater in notified areas
- Details of the grant of permit required to extract and use groundwater in the notified area
- Registration of existing users in the notification areas
- Mechanism of registration of new wells in the non notified areas
- Power resting with the authority to alter, amend or vary the terms of the permit
- Cancellation of permit or certificate of registration or license
- Powers of the groundwater authority
- Service of orders
- Delegation of powers and duties
- Details of mechanisms for dealing with offences
- The powers resting with the state government to make rules for the implementation of the Act.
Training modules on planning, development and management of groundwater with special reference to watershed management programmes by ACWADAM
Posted on 06 Oct, 2010 08:12 PM
Advanced Center for Water Resources Development and Management (ACWADAM) is a premier education and research institution and facilitates work on groundwater management through action research programmes and trainings. ACWADAM’s main thrust has been on the process of capacity building and facilitation, both founded strongly on its research base.
ACWADAM, with support from the Ford Foundation, has embarked on strengthening civil society capabilities in groundwater management, using the watershed management platform. A comprehensive training module on basic hydrogeology and groundwater science, has been developed, and can be sourced by writing to ACWADAM at acwadam@vsnl.net.
These trainings enable the trainees particularly from Civil Society Organisations to improve the planning, implementation and monitoring of their watershed development and allied projects.
Water Jobs via DevNetJobsIndia.org dated October 06, 2010
Posted on 06 Oct, 2010 10:22 AM- Publication and Documentation Officer
Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR)
Location: Pune
Last Date: October 16, 2010
Water Resources Engineering and Management - A Civil Engineering Course under the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning
Posted on 29 Sep, 2010 07:42 AMThis Civil Engineering Course under the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) on the broad subject of Water Resources Engineering and Management is being carried out by Indian Institute of Technology’s and the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore as a collaborative project supported by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (Government of India) to enhance the quality of engineering education in the country, by developing curriculum based video and web courses. In these web based lectures, the authors have developed the subject in detail and in stages in a student-friendly manner. The broad group of Water Resources Engineering is structured into modules on the topic by IIT Kharagpur as follows: