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Prof. Pranab Kumar Ray (Director, Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Research, Kolkata) scrutinises the need for water sharing between India and China, dispels misconceptions and provides a framework for an Integrated Basin Water Management system. India and China can put to planning and management a vast amount of water between them.

Software engineer-turned politician and national convenor of BJP's water management cell Shriram Vedire has been appointed as adviser to the ministry of water resources, river development and Ganga

In right earnest to prevent floods and water shortage

Thousands of people from 10 villages around Ugamedi village in Bhavnagar district were all smiles on Tuesday. The once parched Sonal river was flowing bank to bank.

Parched areas in South India may no longer be water starved if Karnataka plans to link Mahanadi, Godavari, Krishna and Cauvery in consulation with the states concerned succeed.

A proposal for forest clearance to the Ken-Betwa river-interlinking project, which involves diverting 6,000 hectares of the Panna Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh, has been put up to the Environment

Little progress has been made in the three inter-linking of river proposals, which aims to divert surplus water to deficit areas and reduce chances of flood.

India is considering 76 river-linking projects to address water scarcity in some parts of the world’s second-most populous nation, according to the government.

Question raised in Rajya Sabha on inter linking of rivers, 04/08/2014.

Call to abandon river linking proposal

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