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A student uses India Water Portal on Twitter (@indiawater) for research
Posted on 12 Apr, 2012 04:10 PMShe found Twitter to be a useful place to conduct her research on issues of governance and institutions in watershed management programs in India and the U.S., because it enabled her to pick the resources she found useful without having to go through lots of articles and research papers.
"Resources, tribes and the State" - A report on an international seminar, organized by the Arunachal Institute of Tribal Studies at Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh, in February 2012
Posted on 11 Apr, 2012 04:10 PMGuest post by: Raju Mimi
Climate change and water sources: Strengthening community preparedness and water use regulations hold the key
Posted on 10 Apr, 2012 10:34 AMAuthor : Neelima Garg
The return of the earthworm: Association for India's Development's (AID-JHU) practicing organic farming in the Sunderbans
Posted on 08 Apr, 2012 10:51 PMArticle and Video Courtesy : Association for India's Development - Johns Hopkins University
Author : Nishikant
Critical analysis of the overarching issues in Indian agriculture - State of Indian agriculture report (2011-2012)
Posted on 06 Apr, 2012 06:57 PMPeople of Nuapada district in Odisha build a stop dam themselves - Roundup of audio updates from CGNet Swara (Sep 2011 to Feb 2012)
Posted on 03 Apr, 2012 02:57 PMPeople get together to build a stop dam themselves
The people of Khariar road town in Odisha have long requested a check dam across the river Jonk. Khuturam Sunani describes how they have now begun constructing it through shramadaan.
Supreme Court order in February 27, 2012 on the interlinking of rivers project A statement and an appeal by concerned citizens to think of all the implications
Posted on 29 Mar, 2012 06:37 PMThe full statement is as follows -
We, the signatories to this statement, wish to record our utmost concern at the Hon’ble Supreme Court’s judgment of 27 February 2012 on the Inter-Linking of Rivers Project (ILR), on the following grounds:
Corporatising water: India's draft National Water Policy - A document published by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Posted on 21 Mar, 2012 12:17 PMThe document argues that the latest example of this is India’s Draft National Water Policy (NWP) circulated by the Ministry of Water Resources. At first glance, it appears as if the policy has been taking a holistic approach to water resources management, with a clear recognition of India’s water woes.
Soil endowments, production technologies and missing women in India - A World Bank working paper
Posted on 19 Mar, 2012 03:08 PMThe paper argues that in India, where 72 percent of the population is rural, there is a significant and important association between the geographical variation in exogenous soil texture and rural infant sex ratios. In agriculture, the depth of land and seedbed preparation are exogenously determined by the soil texture.
Impact report of watershed development programme in Ayyannapalem village of Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh
Posted on 19 Mar, 2012 11:59 AMAuthor : Kotikala Chandrasheakar
Name of the watershed: Ayyannapalem
Name of the Mandal: Bollapalli
District: Guntur