Applications and other Software Programs

Taluka-level GIS database for Maharashtra, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh
A database of the spread of and expenditure on watershed development programmes in 3 states of India, enables easy visualisation of the regional variation in the data. Posted on 13 Aug, 2009 09:47 AM

The taluka-level GIS database for Maharashtra, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh, is a CD containing a GIS (Geographical Information System) database of the spread of and expenditure on watershed development programmes in 3 states of India, viz., Karnataka, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh.

Meteorological datasets: Download entire datasets for various meteorological indicators from 1901 to 2002
Resource rich app that allows you to download datasets for various meteorological indicators from 1901 to 2002 Posted on 27 Jul, 2009 10:52 AM

Meteorological data is essential for water resource planning and research. In India, this data is difficult to obtain for the average citizen. In this application, entire datasets for various meteorological indicators from 1901 to 2002, for any part of India, is made available for users, in a simple format.

Monsoon clouds at Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
Water quality in various areas of Delhi: survey results of the Clean India Campaign
Development Alternatives did a survey of water quality in various areas of Delhi through its Clean India Campaign Posted on 02 Jun, 2009 10:43 AM

Development Alternatives did a survey of water quality in various areas of Delhi through its Clean India Campaign. The results are presented as a software application. The application can be downloaded and installed on your computer.

Tutorial on constructing water balance of a specific area for water resource planning
The aim of the tutorial is to introduce a simple water balance model and provide tools to construct water balance of a specific region Posted on 01 Jun, 2009 01:33 PM

Introduction

AquaCrop: A crop water productivity simulation model from Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)
AquaCrop is a tool intended for practitioners working for extension services, governmental agencies, NGOs, and farmers association. It also interest scientists and for teaching purposes Posted on 02 May, 2009 11:04 AM

AquaCrop is a crop water productivity simulation model, developed by the water unit at the FAO, to simulate yield response to water of several herbaceous crops, and is particularly suited to make decisions, in conditions where water is a key limiting factor in crop production.

Agricultural Wiki : Agropedia!
Agropedia is envisioned to be a one stop shop for all kinds of information related to Indian agriculture. Posted on 07 Feb, 2009 08:25 AM

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Agropedia is a comprehensive, seamlessly integrated model of digital content organization in the agricultural domain. It aims to bring together a community of practice through an ICT mediated knowledge creating and organising platform with an effort to leverage the existing agricultural extension system. Agropedia is envisioned to be a one stop shop for all kinds of information related to Indian agriculture. The practice of crop knowledge models has been defined and developed for the first time worldwide to create architecture for accumulating known codified and approved information about crops, with the support of Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), Rome. These KMs are the structural representation of knowledge by using symbols to represent pieces of knowledge and relationships between them, which can be used to connect seamlessly to the knowledge base in agropedia using semantic tools. KMs have been represented using Concept Map (C-Map) Tools .

Should IMD give away meteorological data for free ?
Should IMD give away meteorological data for free ?
Posted on 22 Jan, 2009 04:21 AM

India Water Portal has a meteorological data tool (https://www.indiawaterportal.org/data/metdata) that gives rainfall data (and 10 other meteorological parameters) for each district of India for 100 years from 1901 to 2002. Over the past couple of years, many many people have expressed that they found this data useful and requested us to enhance it. The data on our meteorological data tool is from a research dataset put out by the Tyndall Center for Climate Change Research in the University of East Anglia, UK. The reason we got the data from them, is that IMD, India Meteorological Department, which is the chief source of official meteorological data in India, sells this data. To get the kind of all India data above, would be prohibitively expensive. Further, they would not allow this data to be made publicly available, as they sell the same.

Law, Social Justice & Global Development Journal: Special Issue on Water
From the Editorial: The special issue of the LDG on 'Water-justice and the Law' is a contribution to the expanding scope of debates on access to water and water-justice for the poor. Posted on 02 Nov, 2008 09:50 PM

The widening parameters of the debate are prompted by social movements for water-justice on the one hand and the intractable nature of problems entailed in water justice on the other.

Potential impacts of climate change
Two inputs regarding climate change Posted on 11 Jan, 2008 01:50 AM

 A visual depiction of potential climate change impacts across the world from the National Geographic Channel. Below is a screen capture, click on the link to see the full application.

Excel spreadsheet for groundwater budgeting
Excel spreadsheet for groundwater budgeting Posted on 23 Oct, 2007 03:37 AM

Mr. R.V. Rama Mohan of Center for World Solidarity has come up with freeware (an Excel spreadsheet) to calculate the groundwater extraction vs. recharge in an area. He has made the software available to the public and is soliciting feedback.

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