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Water Management
Glimpses of the historical water bodies in the Vijaynagar dynasty - Paper presented at the National Seminar on Water and Culture (2007)
Posted on 30 Jan, 2011 03:44 AMThis paper uses secondary data to showcase the water bodies that were built in the Vijayanagar Empire. The author states that there were 88 such water bodies and these were used for irrigation purposes and also for consumption.
Decline of tank irrigation institutions in South India - A case-study of Tamil Nadu - Paper presented at the National Seminar on Water and Culture (2007)
Posted on 30 Jan, 2011 03:34 AMThe author gives a brief history of tank irrigation in South India. The number of irrigation tanks in India were 208,000, of which 120,000 were in the three Southern states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. These tanks irrigated 1.8 million hectares. The author uses graphs to point out to the decline in tank irrigation.
Institutional framework for regulating use of groundwater in India – A report by IRMED for MoWR
Posted on 23 Jan, 2011 08:37 PM
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Training program on open source GIS at Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad
Posted on 23 Jan, 2011 11:07 AMDr. K. V. Kale
Professor & Head
Department of Computer Science and IT
Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad
Email: kvkale91@gmail.com
Telephone: 0240 2403315(O), 2403317 (F)
Towards adopting nanotechnology in irrigation: Micro irrigation systems
Posted on 21 Jan, 2011 07:36 PMIndia is predominantly an agricultural country and even with current orientation towards services, still agriculture contributes ¼th of total GDP of the country, 15 percent of total export and 65 % of total population’s livelihood.
2011 World Water Week Calls for Abstracts and Proposals
Posted on 21 Jan, 2011 05:39 PMContent and Image Courtesy: World Water Week
World Water Week is hosted and organised by the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) and takes place each year in Stockholm. The World Water Week has been the annual focal point for the globe’s water issues since 1991.
Sustainable water management initiatives in Konkan under threat - A report
Posted on 21 Jan, 2011 02:09 PMGuest Post by: Parineeta Dandekar
At the first sight, Daarche Paani (‘water at the doors’) appears unreal.. on a small flat plateau called ‘Sadaa’ in konkan, an elegant cobbled walkway leads a puzzled visitor to stairs carved in stone, which go down to an ancient grove, and here is an intricate system of tanks, channels and falls which supplies water to the Panderi village and goes down as a free flowing stream, to irrigate a plantation of arecanut, pepper and mangoes in a village called Gudaghe. When I visited the place, I could see three eminent visitors, a silent lady washing her load of clothes, a fairy bluebird splashing at a tank and a huge moonmoth in one of the trees.
Stone walkway and ancient mango trees leading to Daarche Paani.
Photo: Parineeta Dandekar
Linear turbine developed in New Zealand - Trials, drawings, videos
Posted on 18 Jan, 2011 11:17 PMMark 1 model ready for launch 1984
Trials in Pai river northern Thailand 1986
E-learning Course on “Water Footprint Assessment: towards sustainable and efficient water use”
Posted on 18 Jan, 2011 11:34 AMThe Water Footprint Network would like to invite you to join the next e-learning course on “Water Footprint Assessment: towards sustainable and efficient water use”.
Period: 7-18 February 2011
Venue: Online
Objective:
Introduce the concepts of water footprint and virtual water; discuss potential applications in water savings through trade; present why a business would want to conduct a corporate water footprint assessment, and how to do so.
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.