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Water Management
Deciphering environmental flows - An article in Seminar magazine - Jayanta Bandyopadhyay
Posted on 30 Oct, 2011 10:45 AMAuthor: Jayanta Bandyopadhyay
This article published in the Seminar 626, October 2011 argues that our current state of knowledge of water systems and ecological modelling related to flows of water, which includes projecting a single quantitative figure of water requirements, is inadequate. Such a unilateral prescription of environmental flows or water requirements of aquatic systems as a method for the resolution of water conflicts may actually become the source of many new conflicts.
Sustainable resources management for food security and sustainable livelihoods - Action - A Newsletter of AFPRO
Posted on 30 Oct, 2011 07:46 AMThese technologies include soil and water conservation measures, integrated farming, diversion based irrigation systems, sustainable agriculture, tree-based farming to name a few.
Environmental flows in water resources policies, plans, and projects - Case studies by IBRD
Posted on 29 Oct, 2011 06:34 PMThis report comprising a set of case studies by International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) presents how environmental flows is dealt with in water resources policies, plans, and projects. It focuses on the integration of environmental water allocation into integrated water resources management (IWRM) and so fills a major gap in knowledge on IWRM.
Where and how is the state - Accessing water and the state in Mumbai and Johannesburg - Journal of Asian and African Studies
Posted on 29 Oct, 2011 05:28 PMThis paper published in the Journal of Asian and African Studies examines the argument that the political and institutional contexts of service delivery shape people's access to the state and its resources and also the mediation between citizens and g
Report of the committee on slum statistics/census - Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation
Posted on 29 Oct, 2011 04:12 PMThis report by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Government of India, is the outcome of the deliberations conducted by the committee on slum statistics/census constituted by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation in the context of the realisation that there continues
New hope for Indian food security? The System of Rice Intensification – A paper by International Institute for Environment and Development
Posted on 29 Oct, 2011 11:43 AMThis paper from the gatekeeper series of the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) describes the potential of an innovative rice cultivation practice-the system of rice intensification (SRI)—for allowing Indian rice farmers to not only enhance rice production and their net incomes, but also to solve the water crisis.
Towards drinking water security in India: Lessons from the field – A report by Water and Sanitation Program
Posted on 29 Oct, 2011 11:33 AMThis report by the Water and Sanitation Program of the World Bank provides an account of the field level initiatives on drinking water security in India. The country faces many challenges in ensuring reliable, sustainable safe drinking water supply to rural households.
Though, in terms of provision of safe drinking water, more than 90 percent of the rural households have been covered, according to the NSSO 65th round survey 2008-09, much remains to be done to improve levels of service delivery, water quality and sustainability.
An inventory of Greater Himalayan wetlands – A manual by ICIMOD
Posted on 27 Oct, 2011 03:00 PMThis manual by International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) deals with an inventory of Greater Himalayan Wetlands and has been developed to assist governm
Performance of sewage treatment plants - Coliform reduction - Control of urban pollution series - CPCB (2008)
Posted on 27 Oct, 2011 12:38 PMThis report presents the findings of a study conducted by CPCB with the help of Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee and Anna University, Chennai on the performa