Ranjan Panda

Categorising watersheds for freshwater ecosystem conservation in India

These maps at the watershed scales have been made to not only ensure inclusion of different freshwater ecosystems, their connectivity and hydrological processes, but can also provide a spatial context for conservation decisions.

Roshni Arora

Mike Heiner

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Deepti Gupṭa

Ishan Agarwal

Posted on 25 Nov, 2022 04:20 PM

We invite your feedback and contributions to this article. Please view the maps by clicking the link at the end of the article.

A stream at Anini, Arunachal Pradesh (Image Source: Roshni Arora)

The need for a sound flood management policy and not another dam

The recent floods have once again confirmed that large dams like Hirakud have miserably failed in controlling floods, says Ranjan Panda.

Posted on 24 Oct, 2011 12:58 AM

Article Courtesy : Water Initiatives Odisha (WIO)

Author : Ranjan Panda

These large structural engineering solutions not only are obsolete but undermine the importance of ‘integrated flood management’. Time we grow up and design ways to live with floods again.

WIO Press Release: Will the wonder irrigation plan take off in Orissa?

A post that analyses Orissa governments water initiatives

Posted on 28 Sep, 2009 05:42 AM

- State government promises 5.6 lakh hectares more land under irrigation in the next 5 years.

Press Release : Water Initiatives Orissa

World Bank report confirms what WIO had said 3 years ago!!

Water Initiatives Orissa (WIO)

Posted on 05 Jun, 2009 12:15 AM

Guest Post by: Ranjan Panda

Sambalpur 27.5.2009

What 'Water Initiatives Orissa (WIO)' had found out three years ago have been substantiated now by a World Bank report, titled 'Climate Change Impacts in Drought and Flood Affected Areas: Case Studies in India'. The World Bank report , which took Orissa as a case study of flooding in a climate change scenarios - has referred to projections that 'temperatures, precipitation, and flooding are likely to increase, with adverse impacts on crop yields and farm incomes. Among the more substantial effects is a spatial shift in the pattern of rainfall towards the already flood-prone coastal areas'. Three years ago the WIO had found out significant increase in average annual rainfall in coastal districts like Baleswar and Puri. Now the World Bank report has projected 23 per cent increase in annual mean rainfall in that region.

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