Rivers

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.

National Conference on River Ganga Basin Management: Issues and Challenges, Centre for Environmental Science and Technology, BHU, January 9-11, 2012, Varanasi
Posted on 18 Oct, 2011 12:26 PM

Organizer: Centre for Environmental Science and Technology 

Venue: Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi

CEST

Life and times of a river and its people - Yamuna Katha, October 11-15, 2011, New Delhi
Posted on 10 Oct, 2011 08:21 PM

 

Organizers: Yamuna Katha

Venue: Delhi

Yamuna Katha

Yamuna Katha is a collaborative effort to understand how the river-city-dyad has formed over the years and what has been the relationship between the river, the people, the flora and the fauna. Yamuna Katha brings to a common zone, representatives of various stakeholders who are directly or indirectly connected with the river for a collaborative exchange.

WWF invites applications for Senior Programme Officer – Coordinator, Delhi - Apply by October 10, 2011
Posted on 06 Oct, 2011 07:41 PM

Content courtesy DevNetJobsIndia

 WWF

WWF-India has been working to promote harmony between human beings and nature for more than four decades.

Man-made floods in Orissa in September 2011- Key issues raised by Water Initiatives Orissa
The Orissa floods of 2011 point to the loopholes in river basin planning and management and calls for urgent attention of planners and policy makers. Posted on 06 Oct, 2011 10:24 AM

Orissa was hit by two spates of flood in September 2011, the first one being caused by heavy rains in the Mahanadi catchment and release of huge discharges from Hirakud dam. The second one was caused by heavy rains and flooding of Brahmani, Baitarani and Budhabalanga rivers. These floods point to the loopholes in river basin planning and management and calls for urgent attention of planners and policy makers. 

Photo exhibit on water conservation - Delhi's might, Renuka's plight - JNU Art and Aesthetics School, Delhi, September 26 – October 2, 2011
Posted on 30 Sep, 2011 08:19 PM

Photo Exhibit: Delhi's might, Renuka's plight - 26th Sept-2nd Oct


Venue: Art & Aesthetics Gallery, JNU Campus, New Delhi

JNU 

The School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU is one of the few places in India that offers post-graduate degree courses in the theoretical and critical study of the cinematic, visual and performing arts. Moreover, it is the only place in India where these disciplines are offered in an integrated programme that allows students to understand the individual arts in a broader context of history, sociology, politics, semiotics, gender and cultural studies apart from being able to integrate the study of one art form with the other arts. The three streams of study offered at the school are Visual Studies, Theatre & Performance Studies and Cinema Studies.

Different designs, same management: A note from Water Initiatives Odisha on Rengali dam and flood management
‘Did we manage the Rengali dam the way we managed Hirakud?’ asks Water Initiatives Odisha Posted on 28 Sep, 2011 09:57 AM

Water Initiatives Odisha, brings out a special note on this issue in response to the latest spell of the flood disaster in northern Odisha Rivers.

Basanti and the Kosi: How one woman revitalized a watershed in Uttarakhand
Chicu writes about the river and a woman's tireless effort to protect it. Posted on 07 Sep, 2011 03:22 PM

Guest post by: Chicu

Adaptive water resource management in the Lower Bhavani project command area in Tamil Nadu – A research report by IWMI
This study by IWMI explores the theory and practice of adaptive management based on a detailed field study in the Lower Bhavani project command area. Posted on 25 Aug, 2011 11:07 PM

Bhavani

To what extent farmers and water resource managers already practice adaptive management and whether it is practiced in an optimal manner or could there be areas for improvement based on recent advancements in the theory of adaptive management are some of the questions that are particularly appropriate in the light of rapid changes in river basin water use and also in relation to basin closure.

This paper draws on the development and use of water resources in the Lower Bhavani Project (LBP), with the LBP reservoir and the 84,000 hectare (ha) LBP command area. The project diverts water from the Bhavani River, a tributary of the Cauvery River in Tamil Nadu.

Hydrology of the Upper Ganga river – A report by the International Water Management Institute
This report by International Water Management Institute deals with the hydrology of the Upper Ganga river - the upper main branch of the river. Posted on 21 Aug, 2011 10:43 PM

To provide the background hydrological information for the assessment of environmental flow requirements at four selected ‘Environmental Flow’ sites, a hydrological model was set up to simulate the catchment in the present state (with water regulation  infrastructure) and to generate the natural flows (without water regulation infrastructure).

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