Water Management

No substance in budget's agriculture hype

the Union budget for 2007-08 is big on illusions, small on vision. Despite the hype about its tilt towards the agriculture sector, the budget has failed to put together a package to bail out the

Publication Date:

30/03/2007

Author(s): Richard Mahapatra, Sandip Das

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Agriculture, Wells, Groundwater Recharge, Water Management, Water Conservation, Irrigation, Economy, Landless, Rural Development, Planning, Finance, Services, Anti-Poverty Programmes, India, Statistics

Industry

Agriculture: Don't fix is the government's fix

It can be said that Union budget, 2007, is high on symbolism and intent. Most people in and close to power acknowledge that something is spoiling booming India s party price rise, agricultural

Publication Date:

30/03/2007

Author(s): Sunita Narain

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

15

Issue:

20070331

pp:

21

Tags:

Agriculture, Wheat, Legumes, Food Policy, Food Prices, Water Management, Trade, Economy, Farmers, Rural Development, Economic Development, Finance, Subsidies, Exports, Imports, Anti-Poverty Programmes, Industry, India

Industry

The politics of inefficient irrigation technology

Call it is one of the unknown Indian ironies. Over many years, the Indian state, through its public irrigation agencies, has systematically taken over the management of surface water systems. It has

Publication Date:

14/03/2007

Author(s): Sunita Narain

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

15

Issue:

20070315

pp:

20

Tags:

Groundwater Recharge, Water Management, Water Conservation, Water Harvesting, Traditional Water Harvesting, Dams, Reservoirs, Irrigation, Surface Water Irrigation, Canal Irrigation, Groundwater Irrigation, Industry, Legislation, India

Industry

Fizzy logic

Coca-Cola

Publication Date:

14/05/2006

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Soft Drinks, Coca Cola, Water Management, Watershed Development, Industry, Research

Wildlife

Basin watering recipe

The Amazon basin countries recently launched a new initiative to help the region's inhabitants manage water, forests and wildlife more efficiently. Water will be the focus area of the project,

Publication Date:

30/07/2005

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

14

Issue:

20050731

pp:

0

Tags:

Amazon, Water Management, Forest Conservation, Wildlife, Brazil

Industry

For frugality and sensible use

A recent letter from a reader has disturbed me enormously. B P Radhakrishna, president of the Geological Society of India, in response to a story in Down To Earth about how drought was affecting

Publication Date:

14/08/2004

Author(s): Sunita Narain

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

13

Issue:

20040815

pp:

6

Tags:

Agriculture, Groundwater, Water Management, Water Conservation, Mango, Drought, Research, India, Andhra Pradesh

Agriculture

Effective water management by a Kenyan farmer

In Kenya, where sixty per cent of all agriculturists are small farmers with less than 5 hectares ha of land, Peter Saku is an interesting case. A marginal farmer of Kifurusha village in Kenya s Machakos district, he grows 11 different kinds of produce o

Publication Date:

14/12/2003

Author(s): Eklavya Prasad

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Agriculture, Water Management, Water Conservation, Water Harvesting, Africa, Kenya

Sanitation

Managing water locally a good model

In the Water and Sanitation Project implemented by the Tamil Nadu government with assistance from the Danish International Development Assistance, the institutional foundation for providing water supplies lies within the framework of the Panchayati Raj sy

Publication Date:

30/05/2003

Author(s): Lennart Nilsson

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

12

Issue:

20030531

pp:

0

Tags:

Water Management, Rural Water Supply, Sanitation, Panchayats, India, Tamil Nadu