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WIO Press Release: Will the wonder irrigation plan take off in Orissa?
Posted on 28 Sep, 2009 05:42 AM- State government promises 5.6 lakh hectares more land under irrigation in the next 5 years.
Watershed scale planning- Application of rainwater harvesting techniques
Posted on 15 Sep, 2009 04:20 PMThe first project was conducted by the BAIF Development Research Foundation in the Hassan District of Karnataka. They created a linked network of 350 farm ponds covering 700 hectares of the watershed.
Pani panchayat in Orissa: The practice of participatory water management
Posted on 29 Aug, 2009 11:32 AMThis paper, published in the journal Development argues that new policy interventions such as Pani Panchayat in Orissa, India ignore the local socioeconomic contexts and fail to ensure co
Impact of climate change on the Mahanadi river basin
Posted on 28 Aug, 2009 02:56 PMThe Mahanadi River delta plain covers 0.9 x 10 km and lies between 85 40' : 86 45' E and 19 40' : 20 35' N. The catchment area of the river covers 1.42 x 10 km. The sediment yield of the Mahanadi catchment is around 200-400 tonnes/km. It has an average annual rainfall of 1572 mm and 70% of this during the SW monsoon season.
Impact of climate change in India: An agro - ecological zone level analysis
Posted on 20 Aug, 2009 06:04 PMIndia is gifted with heterogeneous landforms and variety of climatic conditions such as the lofty mountains, the raverine deltas, high altitude forests, peninsular plateaus, variety of geological formations endowed with temperature varying from arctic cold to equatorial hot, and rainfall from extreme aridity with a few cms (<10 cm) to pre humid with world's maxim
Map depicting areas prone to flooding in India
Posted on 19 Aug, 2009 03:48 PMThis map shows the regions in the country that are regularly affected by floods.
The major flood prone regions are Punjab, Haryana, most of the Gangetic plains including Uttar Pradesh, North Bihar and West Bengal, the Brahmaputra valley, coastal Andhra Pradesh and Orissa, and South Gujarat.
Incidence of fluorosis: Map showing states affected by fluorosis in india
Posted on 19 Aug, 2009 12:44 PMThese two maps indicate the percentage of districts affected by fluoride, in each state of the country and also gives data of the range of fluoride concentration in drinking water in each state.
Map: International Groundwater Resources Assessment Centre's global overview of salinity in groundwater
Posted on 19 Aug, 2009 10:20 AMIn India, salinity has three types of genesis - one, by dissolution (areas concentrated in Kutch, North Rajasthan and bordering Punjab, South Rajasthan and bordering areas of Madhya Pradesh and parts of Western Uttar Pradesh; two, by irrigation (areas concentrated in the Deccan Peninsular region of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu) and parts of Orissa and West Bengal; and three, by late
Map depicting the salinity affected areas in India
Posted on 18 Aug, 2009 12:52 PMThe map shows that Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Goa, Maharashtra and Gujarat are high salinity zones, and Andhra Pradesh, Orissa and West Bengal are moderate salinity zones.
Click here to view the map - IRFC