Water Management

Often groundwater pumping is undertaken assuming the resource to be infinite. This myth has been shattered in the last few decades with increasing scarcity and deterioration in terms of quality as a consequence of over-exploitation and mismanagement of this resource to meet competing demands for drinking water and other needs in urban cities. However, managing groundwater is not an easy task.

This set of maps of Indian towns and cities, dated between 1893 and 1924, give an idea of historical water bodies in each town/city, and can be compared with present day maps, to discover water bodies, that may have been lost to urban encroachments or other human interventions.

In this paper, the authors examine the current debates around India's water crisis and its implications for food security in the country. The paper takes a critical look at the recent official assessments of groundwater exploitation in India in the context of these debates.

The paper proposes that there is a need to make a qualitative assessment of the magnitude of food security and water management challenges facing the country. It argues that two important factors drive the agricultural growth and food production in India. These include access and availability of arable land and water resources, which need to be examined and analysed with particular reference to their regional variations, to get a true understanding of the situation.

Women ‘JALMITRA’ spanning awareness on O&M

Article by - Prabhakar Mishra, IEC Specialist, Jalswarajya Nagpur.

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Organizer: Water and Food Equitable Distribution Organisation (WEDO)

Topics:

• Making more surface water available
• Sustainable and enduring solutions for water

Venue: Henry Maudslay Hall, Anna University, Chennai

Description:

WEDO ( Water and Food Equitable Distribution Organisation) is a unique Initiative of professionals and experts with hands-on experience, a Think-tank of the free enterprise with lateral thinking to design and evolve projects on a scientific and technological basis to provide acceptable engineering solutions to be proposed to the nation:  Models, designs and plans for  Production,  storage  and distribution of vital resources in India.

Centre for Environment Education (CEE), Northern regional office based in Lucknow has been working with Gender and Water Alliance (GWA) for trans-adapting the resource guide on ‘Mainstreaming Gender in Water Management’ in Hindi for India as part of the South Asia version. The Resource guide was first published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in 2003. This is the second edition of the Resource Guide on Mainstreaming Gender in Water Management of August 2006.

The National Water Mission (NWM), under the aegis of the Ministry of Water Resources, is one of the eight missions being constituted under the National Action Plan for Climate Change (NAPCC). The NAPCC was launched by the Prime Minister in 2009 as a nation-wide effort to tackle climate change.

This book by IUCN is directed at practitioners involved in water-related negotiations that aim at fair and mutual agreements on optimum and sensible use of water by all. The book provides the necessary motivation, ideas, tools and inspiration for people involved in water negotiations throughout the world.

Many a times, the underlying approach to negotiations involves bargaining and competition. However, the book believes that emphasis on constructive engagement involving multiple perspectives and consensus building can lead to fair and equal distribution of this valuable resource to everyone.

The book is divided into five chapters that give out important key messages as to how to go about the process of negotiating:

National Conference on Water
Theme:"Efficient Water Management: Challenges and Solutions"

Organizers:

• Water Digest
• Bhaskar Foundation
• Dainik Bhaskar

Topics:

• Efficient use of Water: Need for Institutional Mechanism
• Creation and Restoration of Water Bodies: Case Studies
• Health & Hygiene: Purity and Availability Matrix
• Water Harvesting & Ground Recharging: Every drop is precious
• Maximizing efficiency, cleaning impurities: Role of Modern Technologies

Venue: Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh

Description:

We are delighted to invite you to National Conference on Water on the theme Efficient Water Management: Challenges and Solutions jointly organized by Water Digest ,  Bhaskar Foundation and Dainik Bhaskar and Supported by Govt. Of Madhya Pradesh to be held on June 25-26, 2010 at Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.

Consultancy Development Centre (CDC), on behalf of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India, invites Expression of Interest (EoI) for providing solutions and managing water challenges under the

Technology Mission:  Winning, Augmentation and Renovation (WAR) for Water