Watershed Development

Water and the green economy: capacity development aspects

UNW-DPC launched this new book on "Water and the Green Economy: Capacity Development Aspects". The book gives special attention to the needs related to capacity development for water resources management, including water supply and sanitation, in the context of the green economy.

Publication Date:

01/05/2012

Author(s): Reza Ardakanian, Dirk Jaeger

Source: UN-Water Decade Programme on Capacity Development (UNW-DPC)

Tags:

Water Resources, Water Management, Economy, India, Global, Water Demand, Agriculture, Water Conservation, Water Harvesting, Drinking Water, Sanitation, Water Technology, Gujarat, Development, Water Supply, Watershed Development, Water Quality

Water Resources

Paying for watershed services: an effective tool in the developing world?

Payments for watershed services (PWS) are an increasingly popular conservation and water management tool in developing countries. Some schemes are thriving, and are pro-poor. Others are stalling or have only mixed success. Most rely on public or donor finance; and other sources of funding are unlikely to play a significant role any time soon.

Publication Date:

01/05/2012

Source: IIED

Tags:

Watershed Development, Water Management, Water Conservation, Developing Countries

Water Resources

Bengal yet to submit report on watershed programme

NEW DELHI, 29 APRIL: The Union rural development ministry has claimed that the West Bengal government has “not submitted a single project” under the integrated watershed programme in the last three

Publication Date:

30/04/2012

Source: Statesman (Kolkata)

Tags:

Ministry Of Rural Development, Rural Development, Watershed Development, West Bengal, Water Resources, Land Resources, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), Madhya Pradesh

Wildlife

Land cover and rainfall interact to shape waterbird community composition

Human land cover can degrade estuaries directly through habitat loss and fragmentation or indirectly through nutrient inputs that reduce water quality. Strong precipitation events are occurring more frequently, causing greater hydrological connectivity between watersheds and estuaries. Nutrient enrichment and dissolved oxygen depletion that occur following these events are known to limit populations of benthic macroinvertebrates and commercially harvested species, but the consequences for top consumers such as birds remain largely unknown.

Publication Date:

27/04/2012

Author(s): Colin E. Studds, William V. DeLuca, Matthew E. Baker & et al

Source: PLoS ONE

Vol:

7

Issue:

4

Tags:

Land Use, Rainfall, Birds, Estuaries, Water Pollution, Watershed Development, United States Of America (US), Rainfall Pattern, Water Quality

Water Resources

Corporates give Rs100-cr boost to watershed management in State

Besides administrative machinery, the corporate sector is also playing an important role in the implementation of the Integrated Watershed Area Management Programme in Madhya Pradesh.

Publication Date:

26/04/2012

Source: Pioneer (New Delhi)

Tags:

Watershed Development, Water Supply, Water Management, Madhya Pradesh, Vidisha (D), Mandsaur (D), Katni (D), Panchayats

Agriculture

‘Advocate participatory approach for sustainable farming'

The need to combat challenges relating to agriculture in Tamil Nadu in a systematic and scientific manner was stressed by the Additional Chief Secretary, Department of Planning and Special Initiatives R.Vijayakumar here on Tuesday.

He was inaugurating a sensitization workshop cum stakeholders consultation on, ‘Soil and Water Conservation and Watershed Management' organized by the Central Soil and Water Conservation Research and Training Institute (CSWCRTI) at Rees Corner.

Publication Date:

25/04/2012

Source: Hindu (Chennai)

Tags:

Farmers, Water Conservation, Ecosystems, Groundwater, Watershed Development, Scientists, Agriculture, Tamil Nadu

Water Resources

Gujarat watershed project bags PM's award for public administration

Gujarat has received the Prime Minister’s Award for Excellence in Public Administration for 2010-11 for a watershed management programme in Patan district, the ancient capital of the western state.

Publication Date:

21/04/2012

Source: Business Line (New Delhi)

Tags:

Watershed Development, Awards, Gujarat, Patan (D), Ecosystems, Water Resources, Agriculture

Water Resources

Neyyar water: “Kerala sticking to its stand”

Tamil Nadu is repeatedly requesting the Centre to advise Kerala to conclude an agreement on sharing of the Neyyar river water and release it to the State, pending finalisation of the agreement, according to Public Works Minister K.V. Ramalingam.

Apprising the Assembly on Friday of various steps taken by the government for securing water for 9,200 acres of ayacut in Vilavancode taluk of the Kanyakumari district, the Minister said that the State had, using toposheets of the Union government,

Publication Date:

21/04/2012

Source: Hindu (Chennai)

Tags:

Neyyar, Kerala, Cauvery, Water Disputes, Sivaganga (D), Groundwater, Watershed Development, Water Resources, Tamil Nadu

Water Resources

Increase water use efficiency: PM

Keeping in mind the limitations on increasing water supply, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday said that a large part of effort to plug the demand-supply gap must focus on increasing water use efficiency.

“There is no regulation of ground water extraction and no coordination among competing uses. Inadequate and sub-optimal pricing of both power and water is promoting the misuse of groundwater. We need to move to a situation where groundwater can be treated as a common property resource,” he said while inaugurating the first National Water Week.

Publication Date:

11/04/2012

Source: Asian Age (New Delhi)

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