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Household water delivery options in urban and rural India – A working paper by Stanford Centre for International Development
Posted on 12 May, 2009 05:14 PMThis working paper by the Stanford Centre for International Development deals with household water delivery options in urban and rural India. The recent potentially far-reaching policy changes frame the paper on drinking water options for urban and rural India. Given the primacy of drinking water as a national objective, and the policy of decentralization through community ownership, private sector participation and devolution to local governments, it asks: How can India alleviate its household level drinking water deprivation, in the near-to-medium term, and in cost-effective ways?
Urban water and sanitation services: an IWRM approach – a booklet from TEC education series from Global Water Partnership
Posted on 12 May, 2009 05:10 PMThis series, published by the GWP Secretariat in Stockholm has been created to disseminate the papers written and commissioned by the TEC to address the conceptual agenda. Issues and sub-issues with them, such as the understanding and definition of IWRM, water for food security, public-private partnerships, and water as an economic good have been addressed in these papers.
Drinking water access in Bangalore through the framework of human rights: a PhD dissertation
Posted on 12 May, 2009 04:55 PMThis PhD dissertation by Jenny T Gronwall for Linkoping University's Tema Institute looks at issues of drinking water access in Bangalore through the framework of human rights, analyzing three interlinked dimensions: the right to water as a human right; water in terms of property rights; and water rights.
Urban water crisis in Delhi - Stakeholders responses and potential scenarios of evolution
Posted on 12 May, 2009 04:39 PMThis paper on urban water crisis in Delhi looks at stakeholders responses and potential scenarios of evolution. An inadequate piped water supply from the public utility, characterized by intermittence and unreliability, and supplemented by private uncontrolled groundwater abstraction, is a common feature of most Indian cities as well as other developing cities in the w
Annual flood misery in north Bihar - presentations by Megh Pyne Abhiyaan
Posted on 12 May, 2009 04:30 PMThese three sets of presentation by Eklavya Prasad, Practitioner, Natural and Social Resource Management have been summarized below -
Bihar’s flood survival mechanisms
Upgrading and improving urban water services - an overview paper by Water and Sanitation Program
Posted on 12 May, 2009 04:25 PMPerformance improvement planning helps service providers in bringing about incremental improvements in services by applying the principles of commercial orientation and financial viability. This overview paper by the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) South Asia of the World Bank, explores how such improvements can be undertaken so that they remain sustainable in the long run as well.
Groundwater situation in urban India: overview, opportunities and challenges – a paper by CAREWATER
Posted on 12 May, 2009 03:51 PMThe paper by Carewater INREM Foundation on the groundwater situation in urban India provides an overview besides dealing with the opportunities and challenges. Groundwater plays a fundamental role in shaping the economic and social health of many urban centres of India.
Ministry of agriculture implements Uttaranchal decentralised watershed development project (1999 – 2005)
Posted on 12 May, 2009 03:41 PMThe Uttaranchal decentralised watershed development project was being implemented (1999 – 2005) with World Bank assistance in the state.
Ministry of agriculture announces national agricultural policy (2000)
Posted on 12 May, 2009 03:37 PMThis is the first ever national agriculture policy (2000) of India and seeks to actualise the vast untapped growth potential of Indian agriculture, strengthen rural infrastructure to support faster agricultural development, promote value addition, accelerate the growth of agro business, create employment in rural areas, secure a fair standard of living for the farmers and agricultural workers a
Planning commission sets up working group on rainfed areas for the eleventh five year plan
Posted on 12 May, 2009 03:24 PMThe terms of reference of the working group are as follows -