India

 The negotiators

Of India's 18 major rivers, 17 are inter state. In all cases, the water is intensely fought over. In all cases, there seems no resolution. In such a situation, can modern India take a page or two out of the traditional water manager's unwritten manual on

Publication Date: 
30/10/2003
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Rivers, Cauvery, Tanks, Water Management, Water Distribution, Water Harvesting, Irrigation, Interstate Disputes, Traditional Knowledge, Legislation, Gram Sabhas, NGO, India, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Ladakh
India

 Go to Rajkot

Learn the intricate art of mismanaging water

Publication Date: 
30/12/2002
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Water Salinisation, Narmada, Tanks, Groundwater, Water Management, Water Demand, WHO, NGO, Gujarat, Rajkot
India

 Fast forward to the past

Only a few villages stand testimony to the success of traditional water harvesting methods in tribal areas of Singhbhum. A report by Binayak Das

Publication Date: 
30/07/2002
Binayak Das
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Agricultural Systems, Tanks, Water Harvesting, Afforestation, Tribals, India
India

 Dengue - reality bites

The millions affected have many to curse

Publication Date: 
14/07/2002
Ritu Gupta
Down to Earth
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Tanks, Waterborne diseases, Malaria, Dengue, Urbanisation, Medical Research, Vaccination, Yellow Fever, Public Participation, WHO, Thailand, India, Delhi, Karnataka, Statistics
Water Resources

 Ground reality

As the water crisis surfaces yet again, illegal borewells spring up in and around Delhi. Binayak Das and Suresh Babu on a plummeting water table and rising official apathy

Publication Date: 
30/05/2002
Down to Earth
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Water Resources, Tanks, Groundwater, Tubewells, Water Conservation, Water Harvesting, Water Demand, Haryana
India

 The relation between tanks and trees

For survival of the traditional water management structures, one must understand the linkages between the tanks and trees

Publication Date: 
14/08/2001
Deep Narayan Pandey
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Ecology, Tanks, Groundwater, Water Management, Water Harvesting, Deforestation, Trees, Economy, Traditional Knowledge, India, Madhya Pradesh, Forest Management
Energy

 Back to basics

Integrating indigenous knowledge in joint forest management projects is an essential prerequisite for the success of such programmes, but years of neglect has diluted the centuries old practices

Publication Date: 
29/04/2001
Lian Chawii
Down to Earth
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Tanks, Forest Management, Forest Policy, Deforestation, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Trees, Traditional Knowledge, Maharashtra, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand)
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
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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
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Tanks, Water Management, Water Harvesting, Rural Water Supply, Public Participation, Bihar, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Mandsaur (D), Shahdol (D), Rajasthan, Sustainable Development
Environment

 Water for irrigating farm lands

Everybody uses water for irrigating farmlands. But Gram Vikas Navyuvak Mandal, a voluntary organisation of Laporiya village in Dudu block of Jaipur district, Rajasthan, has evolved an innovative

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

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