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Dams, Rivers & People - Feb/March edition of SANDRP newsletter
Posted on 06 Apr, 2010 05:22 PMA bi-monthly newsletter - Dams, Rivers & People: February / March 2010 issue of the newsletter
Hihghlights
- Kerala’s initiative to desilt reservoirs: the Euphoria & the Concerns
- Book Review: Why are the rivers source of conflicts?
- Gujarat makes up stories about Sardar Sarovar Project
- Only 13-17% water losses in Mumbai, Chennai, why not Delhi?
- World Bank’s Double speak on Large Hydro: Renewable or not?
- Pakistan: Glacial lake dam threatens Hunza Valley
Jobs viz DevNet
Posted on 06 Apr, 2010 10:38 AM- Project Manager : The Trans-boundary Water Dialogue (TWD) Project
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Location: New Delhi, India
Last Date: April 16, 2010
Water owned by all and used by all
Posted on 30 Mar, 2010 02:17 PMThis is cross posted from my blog (link). I wanted to introduce the idea of common pool resources, on which there is a whole new body of work coming up lately. This had won Elinor Ostrom the 2009 Nobel Prize. For water sector, I believe this theory can definitely yield some new insights. And it all starts with a question "Who owns the water?'
A broken down school in Givha, Saharsa district, Bihar, destroyed in the floods after the Kusaha breached in 2008
Posted on 29 Mar, 2010 12:18 PMWhen the foundation stone for the Kosi embankment was laid on January 14, 1955, near Nirmali in Saharsa district in Bihar, euphoric people shouted, Aadhi roti khayenge, Kosi bandh banayenge (we will eat only half a chapati but we will surely build the embankment), writes the prolific engineer and activist Dinesh Mishra in his book, “ Trapped! Between the Devil and the Deep Waters.” No one really paid any attention to the protests and the fears of the people who would live with these embankments and what would happen to their lives.
World Wetland Day 2010 Celebrations - Updates from ATREE
Posted on 24 Mar, 2010 05:21 AMThe World Wetland day 2010 was celebrated by CERC-ATREE with a number of programmes. As an Annual event ‘WETLAND FESTIVAL 2010’ involving the students and teachers from the wetland clubs of Jalapadom schools around the Lake, was held at Kalyani auditorium, Aleppey.
Barrages as a better alternative to Polavaram dam project
Posted on 20 Mar, 2010 06:34 PMBARRAGES AS A BETTER ALTERNATIVE TO POLAVARAM DAM POJECT
(Replies to Discussion Report of Advisory Committee on alternate proposals made for
Polavaram project by Sri.T.Hanumantha Rao, former Engineer-in-Chief, AP State)
Workshop on Protecting water bodies of Chennai, ASCE-EWRI, Chennai
Posted on 20 Mar, 2010 10:05 AMThe first international chapter of Environmental and Water Resources Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers, ASCE - EWRI South India Chapter was inaugurated at IIT Madras on January 6th 2010.
Achieving drinking water security through participatory IWRM approaches in Dhasan sub-basin - A case study by WaterAid and Haritika
Posted on 20 Mar, 2010 04:05 AMThis presentation describes the work of WaterAid and Haritika in organising drinking water security through Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) approaches, in Dhasan river sub-basin (part of Bharar river basin), Nowgon block, Chattarpur district of Madhya Pradesh.
The wells brim with water in drought-prone Gujarat
Posted on 19 Mar, 2010 09:20 AMTHE WELLS of Kalawad village in Junagadh district, Gujarat brim with water. The reason — construction of check dams by a peasant, Mr.
Action plan workshop for the rejuvenation and sustenance of the Arkavathi river basin - Discussion summary and research papers (2009)
Posted on 12 Mar, 2010 04:14 AMA one-day “Action plan workshop for the rejuvenation and sustenance of Arkavathi river basin”, was organised on 25th July 2009, by the Global Academy of Technology and Geological Society of India at Bangalore, to discuss the future of the dying Arkavathi river and Bangalore's precarious water situation, and to develop concurrent implementable action plans to address the problem. The Arkavathi is a tributary of the river Kaveri, originating in Nandi Hills in Chikkaballapur district, that provides about 20% of the total water requirements of Bangalore, with Kaveri providing the remaining 80%.