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Water Resources

An eco-watershed management approach to inter-connect rivers in India

Many rivers in India are shared resources, flowing through or between more than one province and more than one country. The combined effect of climatic stochasticity, rapid population growth and inefficient water infrastructure is increasing stress on river basin ecosystems.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2009
A. Ghosh Bobra, Vijay P Singh
Hydrology Journal
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Tags:
Watershed Development, India, Rivers, Water Management, Freshwater Ecosystems, Water Distribution, River Basin, Hydrology, River Linking, Water Resources
Water Resources

Green Vellore project launched

VELLORE: The

Publication Date: 
23/12/2008
Hindu (Chennai)
Tags:
Water Harvesting, M S Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF), Tamil Nadu, Vellore (D), Environmental Security, River Linking
Water Resources

K'taka diverting Mhadei water, alleges MBA

The Mhadei Bachao Abhiyan (MBA) today alleged that the Karnataka Government is continuing with the Mhadei water diversion at Kankumbi against the direction of the Supreme Court.

MBA convenor Nirmala Sawant, who earlier in the day conducted a site visit at Kankumbi, told Herald that the work is on round-the-clock at the basin.

Publication Date: 
15/12/2008
Herald (Panjim)
Tags:
Supreme Court, Goa, River Linking
Water Resources

Strategic analyses of the national river linking project (NRLP) of India

This IWMI-CPWF study assesses India

Publication Date: 
01/12/2008
Bharat R. Sharma, Upali A. Amarasinghe
International Water Management Institute
Tags:
Groundwater, Water Harvesting, Water Demand, Dams, Irrigation, Water Supply, India, River Linking, River Basin
Water Resources

SC seeks status report on river interlinking

Prabhakar Rao Voruganti |

THE Supreme Court has today directed the Union of India to file a status report on the inter-linking of rivers project. A Bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan, Justice P Sathasivam and Justice J M Panchal also directed the State of Kerala to reply to the affidavit filed by the State of Tamil Nadu.

Publication Date: 
26/11/2008
New Indian Express (Chennai)
Tags:
Water Disputes, Supreme Court, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, River Linking
Water Resources

Panel tells Centre to speed up river projects

Gargi Parsai

NEW DELHI: Disappointed at the slow pace of progress of the Inter-Linking of Rivers (ILR) programme, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Water Resources has asked the government to seek legal opinion on strengthening Central water laws for better implementation.

Publication Date: 
29/10/2008
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Water Resources, India, River Linking
Water Resources

Inter linking of rivers: standing committee on water resources (2008-2009

The Committee (2004-2005) took up the subject

Publication Date: 
01/10/2008
Lok Sabha Secretariat
Tags:
Water Resources, Deforestation, Climate Change, Flood Control, Displacement, Rehabilitation, Government Of India (GOI), Ministry Of Water Resources, India, River Linking
Water Resources

Water first: issues and challenges for nations and communities in South Asia

This book brings together current knowledge and cutting edge interdisciplinary perspectives from renowned scholars on the histories, politics, ecologies and cultures of water in South Asia. It explores the complexities of the issues and challenges thrown up by contemporary water management practices in the South Asian region.

Publication Date: 
Sep 2008
Kuntala Lahiri-dutt, Robert J. Wasson
Sage Publications
Tags:
Narmada Valley, Water Resources, Rivers, Damodar, Ganga, Water Management, Water Quality, Arsenic, Watershed Development, Monsoons, International Disputes, Hydrology, India, Varanasi (D), South Asia, River Linking
Water Resources

Scope and sustainability of cooperation in transboundary water sharing of the Volta river

This paper explores the scope and sustainability of a self-enforcing cooperative agreement in the framework of a game theoretic model, where the upstream and downstream country, Burkina Faso and Ghana respectively in the Volta River Basin, bargain over the level of water abstraction in the upstream.

Publication Date: 
01/09/2008
Anik Bhaduri, Nicostrato Perez, Jens Liebe
Center for Development Research
Tags:
Water Resources, Water Demand, Conflicts, Energy, Burkina Faso, Ghana, River Linking, River Basin
Water Resources

State govts disagree with Centre on water transfer

BY C. ANAND REDDY
NEW DELHI

The Centre is in a fix, as state governments do not agree on Centre's version of inter-basin river water transfers. This further complicates the Centre's efforts to take forward the gigantic project of interlinking of rivers.

Publication Date: 
26/08/2008
Asian Age (New Delhi)
Tags:
Water Distribution, Water Disputes, River Linking

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