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Mining

 Villagers march to revive the Meghal river

Even as citypeople all over India were finalising their Christmas party hopping plans, a celebration of a very different kind galvanised Junagadh district, Gujarat. From December 23 to 26, 2002, thousands of villagers from villages in Keshod, Maliya, Memd

Publication Date: 
14/02/2003
Suresh Babu S V
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Rivers, Water Management, Water Conservation, Water Harvesting, Rural Water Harvesting, Check Dam, Public Participation, NGO, Gujarat, Bhavnagar (D), Junagadh (D), Rajkot, Rainfall
Industry

 Controversial plan to sell water from Sheonath river

Ajit Jogi, Chhattisgarh chief minister, has announced an enquiry into the legality of India"s first private project to supply water to industry from the Sheonath river. Speaking at a press conference after a cabinet meeting on January 21 in Ambikapur, Sar

Publication Date: 
14/02/2003
Sopan Joshi
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Rivers, Water Distribution, Water Demand, Industry, Private Sector, NGO
Water Resources

 No sale

Project to sell river water in Kerala shelved

Publication Date: 
30/01/2003
Surendranath C
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Water Resources, Rivers, Periyar, Dams, Trade, Industry, Governance, Kerala
India

 Tapping technology

The Union ministry of water resources has recommended that a satellite be used for mapping all possible information on water sources. The Indian Space Research Organisation (isro) is likely to start

Publication Date: 
14/01/2003
Down to Earth
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Water Resources, Glaciers, Rivers, Technology, Information, India
India

 The Krishna lesson

River waters are contested ground. What is needed is an equity based agenda

Publication Date: 
30/12/2002
K J Joy And Suhas Paranjape
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Rivers, Krishna, Water Distribution, Water Demand, Governance, India, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra
India

 Dam n the rivers

Interlink rivers and get delinked from true water management

Publication Date: 
14/12/2002
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Rivers, Drought, Unemployment, Political Parties, Gujarat, Maharashtra
India

 Consensus on linking rivers

Scheme will help tackle drought, says PM

Publication Date: 
14/12/2002
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Water Resources, Rivers, Legislation, Supreme Court, India
Water Resources

 Churning issue

Does the concept of interlinking India's rivers hold water? The debate rages on...

Publication Date: 
29/11/2002
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Ecology, Waterlogging, Water Resources, Rivers, Cauvery, Mahanadi, Water Distribution, Canal Irrigation, Economy, Flood Control, Displacement, Interstate Disputes, Hydrology, Research, Supreme Court, Ganga
Water Resources

 River Inc.

Is industry hijacking the law to undermine communities rights to water?

Publication Date: 
29/11/2002
Videh Upadhyay
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Water Resources, Rivers, Water Policy, Private Sector, Legislation, Supreme Court, India
India

 Going off course

As the Cauvery river dispute between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu gets reduced to a politico legal wrangle, focal issues remain unaddressed

Publication Date: 
14/11/2002
Sumita Dasgupta, Suresh Babu S V
Down to Earth
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Agriculture, Agricultural Systems, Rice, Rivers, Cauvery, Water Distribution, Dams, Irrigation, Canal Irrigation, Conflicts, Industry, Legislation, Supreme Court, Political Parties, India, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Statistics

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