Political

The policy brief has studied the NREGA implementation on its focus on creation of productive assets, the involvement of communities in designing their local development using the NREGA and the stumbling blocks in unlocking the development potential of the Act. 

This study by the Subhash B Bhagwat, the Visiting Fulbright Scholar to ACWADAM deals with economic issues in the management of water resources in the drought prone Pune district of Maharashtra. The situation in Pune city is intimately connected to the situation in Pune district. Likewise, the state and national policies and conditions ultimately determine what happens in individual districts or towns. Even then there is plenty of room for cities and districts to influence their own fate with respect to water and the related issues. Therefore, this report focuses on the district of Pune and Pune City but only in the context of and in conjunction with the state of Maharashtra and to some extent India itself.

Website of the Kerala Water Authority:

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The Gujarat State Disaster Management Authority gives taluka wise daily rainfall figures for the previous monsoon (2007 currently) and comparison with the average of last ten years till the same date in the monsoon (June-Sept).

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The website of the ENVIS Center for Kerala:
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It has a Status of the Environment report:
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There is also a report on water-related diseases:

The Kerala page of the Central Ground Water Board, Kerala Region :

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The following resources are accessible there:

Jalanidhi is the website of the Kerala Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Agency which implements "Jalanidhi", a World Bank-assisted "Kerala Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project" for sustained delivery of adequate quantity of water and sanitation services in rural areas in four districts of Kerala.

A strategic plan for attaining drinking water security in the taluka was developed after a planning exercise which was completed into two phases.

Website of the Water Resource Departments of the Government of MP. Contains Ground water assessments, Ground water maps, and ground water availability, Policy and Acts. Also available in the same site, district wise ground water assessment, ground water map and ground water level data, observation well data and peizometer data.

This draft research report by the People’s Science Institute (PSI), Dehradun deals with groundwater contamination near the Union Carbide plant at Bhopal. The main objective of PSI's monitoring exercise was to assess the degree of groundwater contamination, if any, in the vicinity of the erstwhile UCIL plant particularly in the context of the huge quantum of the ill-contained toxic wastes lying unheeded inside.