Climate Change

A new methodology for the assessment of climate change impacts on a watershed scale

Many climate change impact studies have been conducted using a top-down approach. First, outputs from global circulation models (GCMs) are considered which are downscaled in a second step to the river basin scale using either a statistical/empirical or a dynamic approach.

Publication Date: 
25/04/2010
Slobodan P. Simonovic
Current Science
98
8
1047
Tags:
Water Resources, Canada, Watershed Development, Climate Change, Climate Impacts, Drought, Hydrology, River Basin
Water Resources

Watershed project for barren lands

April 20: The Centre on Tuesday informed Parliament that due to overlapping of watershed programmes by different ministries, these were integrated into one as the Integrated Watershed Management Programme. This integrated programme is an effort to turn barren and dry land for agricultural purposes.

Publication Date: 
21/04/2010
Asian Age (New Delhi)
Tags:
Dryland Farming, Water Resources, Watershed Development, India
Land

Watershed, land record programmes lack funds

Noting that the Department of Land Resources under the Union Rural Development Ministry has not been getting required funds during the 11th Plan period (2007-2012), a Parliamentary Standing Committee has urged the Planning Commission to allocate the requisite funds for better execution of the Integrated Watershed Management Programme (IWMP) and National Land Records Modernisation Programme (NLRMP)

Publication Date: 
19/04/2010
Pioneer (New Delhi)
Tags:
Land, Land Resources, Watershed Development, Finance, Parliament, India
Biodiversity

Plant diversity in two forest types along the disturbance gradient in Dewalgarh Watershed, Garhwal Himalaya

This study deals with the plant diversity and effects of disturbance on two types of forest namely, Anogeissus latifolius mixed forest (700

Publication Date: 
15/04/2010
Prerna Pokhriyal, Pooja Uniyal, Sabyasachi Dasgupta & et al
Current Science
98
7
938
Tags:
Watershed Development, Flora, Biodiversity, Plant Biodiversity, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), Pauri
Water Resources

Koracharahatti will never go dry

Koracharahatti has Ayyanakere and Madagadakere, two largest lakes in the district, on its either sides but yet it was facing drought till about one-year-ago.

Publication Date: 
14/04/2010
Deccan Herald (Bangalore)
Tags:
Water Resources, Lakes, Watershed Development, Karnataka, Chikmagalur (D)
Poverty

NREGA to move up the value chain, target skill-intensive projects

THE UPA government

Publication Date: 
07/04/2010
Economic Times (New Delhi)
Tags:
Watershed Development, Poverty, Anti-Poverty Programmes, National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA)
Water Supply

A watershed in Mewats history

In Mewat

Publication Date: 
05/04/2010
Tribune (New Delhi)
Tags:
Water Quality, Drinking Water, Rural Water Supply, Watershed Development, Rajiv Gandhi National Drinking Water Mission, Haryana, Mewat
Water Resources

Neither water nor governance: water governance in the Man river basin

The report looks at water governance in the Man basin, a medium sized sub-basin of the Narmada river basin in tribal dominated western Madhya Pradesh. It deals with problematic issues of water governance in the basin and generates insights and guidelines that are important for both grassroots and policy level interventions in future.

Publication Date: 
01/04/2010
Rahul Banerjee
Society for Promotion of Wastelands Development
Tags:
Waterlogging, Agriculture, Water Resources, Narmada, Water Management, Water Demand, Dams, Watershed Development, Governance, Madhya Pradesh, River Basin
Health

CAG report slams state: reveals defective budgeting, improper planning

Chandigarh: Defective budgeting, improper planning, slow implementation of schemes, faulty execution of works - the report of the Controller and Auditor-General of India on Haryana, presented to the Haryana Legislative Assembly, found this and much more.

It also brought to light, inter alia, deficiencies in systems and procedures, excess payments, wasteful and avoidable expenditure.

Publication Date: 
22/03/2010
Tribune (New Delhi)
Tags:
Land Degradation, Watershed Development, Development, Health, Roads, National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), Haryana, Budget
Economy

CAG report slams state: Reveals defective budgeting, improper planning

Defective budgeting, improper planning, slow implementation of schemes, faulty execution of works - the report of the Controller and Auditor-General of India on Haryana, presented to the Haryana Legislative Assembly, found this and much more.

It also brought to light, inter alia, deficiencies in systems and procedures, excess payments, wasteful and avoidable expenditure.

Publication Date: 
17/03/2010
Tribune (New Delhi)
Tags:
Watershed Development, Development, Health, Economy, National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), Haryana, Budget

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