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Booklets on water quality, river pollution and rainwater harvesting by Janhit Foundation
Posted on 18 Jan, 2011 04:16 PMThe three booklets discuss the issues of water quality, river pollution, and rainwater harvesting, in detail.
December 2010 - January 2011: "Dams, Rivers and People" - The SANDRP newsletter
Posted on 11 Jan, 2011 01:00 PM
The SANDRP newsletter for December 2010 - January 2011 continues its critical analysis of dams, irrigation and related issues:
- Water Crisis in Ramsar Wetlands of India
- India dodged UN to get climate credits?
Conservation of urban lakes as potential sources of freshwater - Paper presented at the National Seminar on Water and Culture (2007)
Posted on 09 Jan, 2011 11:52 PMThe author sees the need for the conservation, maintenance and management of these ancient water bodies for the supply of water to cities. The author suggests that there is need to integrate traditional wisdom with modern water resource management.
Sanitation is sexy challenge : Winners announced
Posted on 07 Jan, 2011 10:54 AMArticle and Image Courtesy: Acumen Fund
Author: James Wu
The judges votes are in, and we’re excited to announce the winners for the Search for the Obvious Sanitation is Sexy challenge.
Maharashtra Groundwater (Development and Management) Bill (2009)
Posted on 05 Jan, 2011 07:32 PMThe Maharashtra Groundwater (Development and Management) Bill, 2009 aims to facilitate and ensure sustainable and adequate supply of groundwater of prescribed quality, for various category of users, through supply and demand management measures, protecting public drinking water sources and to establish the State Groundwater Authority and District Level Authorities to manage and to regulate, with community participation, the exploitation of groundwater within the State of Maharashtra.
Damming North East India - Juggernaut of hydropower projects threatens social and environmental security of region
Posted on 28 Dec, 2010 07:49 PM
This report by Kalpavriksh, Aaranyak and ActionAid India deals with the large dams’ juggernaut, which happens to be the biggest ‘development’ intervention in this ecologically and geologically fragile, seismically active and culturally sensitive region in the coming days. With the Northeast identified as India’s ‘future powerhouse’ and at least 168 large hydroelectric projects set to majorly alter the riverscape, large dams are emerging as a major issue of conflict in the region.
Although the current scale of dam-related developments far outstrips anything which took place in the past, the region has been no stranger to dam-related conflicts. For example, the Kaptai dam, built in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) in the 1960s, submerged the traditional homelands of the Hajong and Chakma indigenous communities, and forced them to migrate into parts of Northeast India.
Blueprint for farm growth
Posted on 28 Dec, 2010 03:12 PM
Since the start of the 11th Five Year Plan, the growth rate in agriculture has virtually remained stagnant. A scene at a paddy field in the outskirts of Hyderabad.
Interlinking of Rivers - Third report of the Standing Committee on Water Resources (2009-2010)
Posted on 27 Dec, 2010 04:55 PMThis report of the Standing Committee on Water Resources deals with the action taken by the Government on the recommendations and observations contained in their Eleventh Report on “Inter Linking of Rivers” which was presented to Lok Sabha in October 2008.
The Dam Safety Bill (2010) – Ministry of Water Resources
Posted on 27 Dec, 2010 11:00 AMThe Dam Safety bill, 2010 introduced in the Lok Sabha in August 2010 and approved by the cabinet earlier this year was referred to the Standing Committee on Water Resources, which was scheduled to submit its report within three months. The bill which is still pending seeks to provide for the surveillance, inspection and operation of all dams of certain parameters to ensure their safe functioning.
Mitigating climate change through organic agriculture - Keynote address at the Third Organic Farming Association of India Convention, held at Anand, Gujarat (2010)
Posted on 25 Dec, 2010 10:43 PMGreen Revolution (GR) technologies, supported by official policies, and fuelled by agro-chemicals, machinery and irrigation, are well known to have improved agricultural production and productivity. While these technologies greatly helped developing countries to address their food-security and food-sovereignty needs, farmers using these technologies have had to depend on external inputs.