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The India Water Portal is looking for a Content Editor !!
Posted on 11 Feb, 2010 11:38 PMThe India Water Portal is an open, collaborative, web-based initiative, anchored by Arghyam, for sharing water management knowledge amongst practitioners, experts and the general public.
Government data on the losses in the floods and other related information in north Karnataka
Posted on 09 Feb, 2010 07:36 PMAttached here are a series of reports from the Government of Karnataka, providing details of the status and relief activities in the immediate aftermath of the floods in N.Karnataka. The reports contain the following information and more:
Detailed rainfall information for the time period of interest
Loss of human life and livestock,
Damage to houses,
Negotiating participatory irrigation management (PIM) - A research study from the Indian Himalayas
Posted on 05 Feb, 2010 04:15 PMThis research paper published in the Journal of Agricultural Water Management draws on a case study from a village in the Shiwalik region of the Indian Himalayas and identifies the role of diverse actors in exploiting historic and ecological factors to derail the Participatory Irrigation management (PIM) reforms to frame water management problems. The paper explores the inter-linkages between socio-cultural, institutional and ecological factors in derailing the PIM reforms. Participatory irrigation management (PIM) reforms are implemented in India to facilitate farmers’ participation in irrigation management, through water user groups.
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Book : "Public-Private Partnerships in Water Sector: Partnerships or Privatisation?"
Posted on 01 Feb, 2010 05:17 PMAbout the Book –
Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) are supposed to provide solutions to many of the existing problems related to infrastructure projects – in both execution and operation. Currently, there are PPP projects in almost all the sectors including roads, ports, airports, water, sewerage, solid waste management and transport among others. It is, therefore, important to do a reality check on PPP projects and their efficacy in addressing the problems faced by the public sector water supply services and other infrastructure sectors as well.
The report looks at various aspects of PPPs, beginning from why PPPs have come to be regarded as the major approach for infrastructure development in the country, the circumstances that lead to the change in approach from direct privatisation to public-private partnerships, the current status of the PPP projects that are being executed in India, especially in the water sector, to the current estimates and projections of investment requirements for infrastructure development in India by governments and International Financial Institutions (IFIs).
A mid-term assessment - Sachetana drinking water plus project - Fluorosis Mitigation - BIRD-K - Mundargi taluk - Gadag district (Karnataka)
Posted on 29 Jan, 2010 06:02 PMThe Sachetana Drinking Water Plus project implemented by the BAIF Institute of Rural Development (BIRD-K), in three districts of Karnataka, aims to solve the problem of endemic fluorosis in the region, by providing an alternate source of water and by improving the quality of groundwater.
This report is a mid-term assessment of the project in Mundargi taluk of Gadag district of Karnataka, undertaken to understand and document the decentralized fluoride mitigation strategy adopted in the project villages and to analyze the impact on the groundwater levels and water quality as a result of the project's efforts.
Case studies - Drinking Water - Samagra Jal Vikash Samiti, Arghyam and Development Alternatives - Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh
Posted on 28 Jan, 2010 06:17 PMThis document contains case studies from the work of Samagra Jal Vikash Samiti, Arghyam and Development Alternatives, in Rajpura, Kachipura, Pipra and Hastinapur villages of Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, in organising drinking water and improving water quality of available drinking water.
"India: Water Need to be Double the Supply in 20 Years" : Droplets, e-newsletter, Jan 2010
Posted on 27 Jan, 2010 12:33 PM