India

 Power trickles down

Successful cooperatives compel Maharashtra government to hand over control of irrigation facilities to farmers

Publication Date: 
30/12/2001
Binayak Das
Down to Earth
Tags:
Water Management, Water Distribution, Rural Water Supply, Drinking Water Scarcity, Irrigation, Watershed Development, Drought, Subsidies, Legislation, Governance, NGO, India, Maharashtra
Environment

 Water Management

A great example of how decentralised approaches to water harvesting boost innovation comes from Ladakh in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. Chewang Norphel, retired engineer of the department of

Publication Date: 
14/04/2001
A Asha
Down to Earth
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20010415
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Tags:
Tanks, Water Management, Water Harvesting, Rural Water Supply, Public Participation, Bihar, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Mandsaur (D), Shahdol (D), Rajasthan, Sustainable Development
Environment

 Kalyani

The Institute for Rural Development of the Bharatiya Agro-Industries Foundation ( baif ) has undertaken the excavation of 330 farm ponds in Adihalli watershed, spread over an area of 700 hectares in

Publication Date: 
14/04/2001
Down to Earth
9
20010415
0
Tags:
Tanks, Water Management, Water Harvesting, Rural Water Supply, Public Participation, Bihar, Gujarat,