Governance

This handbook by Central Water Commission aims to provide necessary guidance to the field engineers in the state and central for design, appraisal, construction and monitoring of the flood management works covering all the relevant BIS codes, design manuals, guidelines, technical specifications for construction materials and practices etc. to meet new challenges in the flood management in India.

This article presents a review of the book 'Governing international watercourses' by Susanne Schmeier - a book that has been called 'a stunning piece of work' by Aaron T. Wolf. The author examines the river basin organisation as a key institution for managing international watercourses. The book follows a three-part structure of developing theory, refining it, and then discussing three case studies. By emphasizing that more trans-boundary events are focused on cooperation rather than on conflict- with a far smaller percentage being violent conflict - it carries a message of hope.

Magadh Jal Jamaat, a loose network of progressive individuals in Gaya has been successfully able to revive over a dozen abandoned water sources and have instilled in people the need to create, clean up and conserve several lakes and ponds in the region. 

This document by Department of Rural Development, Ministry of Rural Development provides operational guidelines of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (2005). These guidelines aim at enhancing rural livelihoods by strengthening agricultural productivity.

Water pollution by industries: Punjab ranks highest

The February edition of the TRINet has the following highlights: 

The city corporation of Madurai decides to power all the parks with solar energy.

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