Amita Bhaduri

Experiences from a civil society initiative to restore stretches of toxic Yamuna: Report of a conference organised by PEACE, Thames River Restoration Trust and WWF India at New Delhi in March 2013

Amita Bhaduri reports on the lessons learnt from the Thames and Ganga Twinning Project on March 1, 2013 at the India International Centre, New Delhi. Amita Bhaduri posted 11 years 8 months ago

Accelerated Irrigation Benefits Programme given near-exclusive priority in 12th five year plan, but will it solve India’s water problems?

This article by Amita Bhaduri gets into the nitty gritty of the Accelerated Irrigation Benefits Programme (AIBP). Amita Bhaduri posted 11 years 8 months ago

Refugees of the Kosi embankments – A booklet by Dinesh Kumar Mishra

This booklet by Dinesh Kumar Mishra deals with the plight of the refugees of the Kosi embankment Amita Bhaduri posted 11 years 8 months ago

Water in India: Situation and prospects: Book release by UNICEF, FAO and SaciWaters

New indices are needed to measure available water resources, says a report on the state of the water sector in India, entitled Water in India: Situation and Prospects by UNICEF, FAO and SaciWATERS. Amita Bhaduri posted 11 years 8 months ago

Living rivers, dying rivers: Everything you wanted to know about rivers in India

Why are our rivers getting sicker day by day? Can they be restored and revived? This series of talks, which also includes video footage discusses this essential aspect. Amita Bhaduri posted 11 years 9 months ago

Rivers: A crucial debate surrounding the alarming increase in environmental degradation (Source: Wikipedia)

Videos: Resurgence of the ahar pynes - Magadh Jal Jamaat helps revive 2000-year old flood water harvesting systems in Gaya, Bihar

A success story on the domino effect created due to revival of a pond in Gaya, Bihar that led to the resurgence of ahar pynes, the traditional water harvesting systems in the region. Amita Bhaduri posted 11 years 9 months ago

An exhibition at Studio Safdar in Shadi Khampur traces the history of the urban village and its water systems

Shadi Khampur in West Delhi's rich history and its connect to larger narratives from the past, like the series of land acquisitions in Delhi, the Emergency, and the anti-Sikh riots of 1984 which had gone largely undocumented and unarchived have been chronicled in the Neighbourhood Museum of Local History of Shadi Khampur, at Studio Safdar, a cafe cum bookstore. The project attempts to give an account of the living urban habitation and its specific characteristics, as embedded strongly in people's minds. The way the urban spaces of its narrow lanes have grown is really fascinating. Amita Bhaduri posted 11 years 9 months ago

River basin atlas of India – A report by Central Water Commission and Indian Space Research Organisation

"River basin atlas of India", is an outcome of joint project “Generation of Database and implementation of web enabled Water Resources Information System (India-WRIS) in the country”. Amita Bhaduri posted 11 years 9 months ago

Ahar pynes, traditional flood water harvesting systems can help revive agriculture in south Bihar

An account of the indigenous floodwater harvesting system prevalent in South Bihar and the need for other agencies to undertake its renovation & management. Amita Bhaduri posted 11 years 9 months ago

Ahar Pyne system in Gaya, South Bihar (Image: Hindi Water Portal)

Videos: Lovraj Kumar panel discussion focuses on the challenges to biodiversity conservation, livelihoods and ecological sustainability

The manner in which biodiversity contributes to poverty reduction and development had recently become a subject of heated debate at the Convention on Biological Diversity (CoP-11) at Hyderabad.
As a curtain raiser to this event, SPWD’s Lovraj Kumar panel discussion on 28th September, 2012 at IIC, New Delhi focused on the challenges to biodiversity conservation, livelihoods and ecological sustainability. Amita Bhaduri posted 11 years 9 months ago

Living rivers, dying rivers: River Yamuna

The second lecture was on the Yamuna river by Prof. Brij Gopal, former Prof. at JNU, and Manoj Misra, PEACE Institute and Yamuna Jiye Abhiyan. Amita Bhaduri posted 11 years 9 months ago

Compendium of sewage treatment technologies by Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

The data gathered for this project was assimilated for determination of treatment efficiency, treatment cost and land requirements of various technological options available for sewage treatment. Amita Bhaduri posted 11 years 9 months ago

Building a coalition for the defense and nurturance of biodiversity - Side-event by SADED at the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, CoP-XI, Hyderabad

The purpose of the meeting was to articulate the various issues that have been neglected in cases where biodiversity has regenerated or has alternately been threatened. Amita Bhaduri posted 11 years 10 months ago

Situation of public water supply infrastructure in small and medium towns of Madhya Pradesh – A report in Hindi by Manthan Adhyayan Kendra

This report in Hindi by Rehmat and Makarand Purohit of Manthan Adhyayan Kendra deals with the water sector reforms, in particular with the Urban Infrastructure Development Scheme for Small and Medium Towns (UIDSSMT) scheme being undertaken in Badwani, Madhya Pradesh. This study of the water supply project in Badwani being implemented through public private partnership (PPP) mode provides insights on the impacts of the project and the conflicts that have been appearing in its wake. Amita Bhaduri posted 11 years 10 months ago

Water, sanitation and health situation in select villages of Nadia district, West Bengal

To assess the exact level of water contamination in Nadia district of West Bengal, India Water Partnership commissioned a brief study to one of its east zone partners - Kalyani Institute for Study, Planning & Action for Rural Change (KINSPARC). KINSPARC conducted a comprehensive base-line survey of a cluster of villages in Nadia, based on which Iswaripur and Chandamari village were identified for in-depth study. Awareness and attitudinal changes among people generated by this survey may be interpreted as a step towards mitigating the threat of an impending disaster. Amita Bhaduri posted 11 years 10 months ago

Drought mitigation measures through climate adaptation for securing agricultural livelihoods in Uttar Pradesh

Prolonged and recurrent drought, being experienced in India and various parts of south Asia, is the manifestation of climate change, partly caused by human interventions. Amita Bhaduri posted 11 years 10 months ago

Process of formation of Jajmau Area Water Partnership in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh – Problems and solutions

Industrial effluents and sewage water are being diverted to the river Ganga by the cities and towns through which it passes. Nestled on the banks of Ganga, Kanpur, a highly urbanized and industrial city is polluting it most. Apart from the Government of India’s recently constituted National Ganga River Basin Authority, civil societies and NGOs too are putting rigorous efforts to make Ganga pollution free. Though the city has several big and small industries, the leather industries located in Jajmau, the oldest part of the city add to the problem of pollution in the river to a large extent. Amita Bhaduri posted 11 years 10 months ago

Traditional diversion-based phad irrigation systems help mitigate risk of crop failure in the drought-prone farmer suicide belt of Vidarbha, Maharashtra

Communities have across diverse ecological and sociopolitical contexts devised myriad ways over time to harvest and manage water in order to sustain their lives and practise agriculture. Amita Bhaduri posted 11 years 10 months ago

AnRak Aluminium in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh: Another Vedanta in the making ? – An article in EPW

This paper in Economic and Political Weekly (EPW) by Patrik Oskarsson deals with the bauxite (aluminium) project which is very similar to the Vedanta project in Odisha and is coming up in Visakhapatnam district of Andhra Pradesh. Amita Bhaduri posted 11 years 10 months ago

Forced displacement: A gendered analysis of the Tehri dam project, Uttarakhand - An article in EPW

This paper by Vandana Asthana in the Economic and Political Weekly (EPW) examines the lived experiences of displaced women based on the empirical findings of research that looks at women displaced by the construction of the Tehri Dam and their relocation elsewhere. Amita Bhaduri posted 11 years 10 months ago