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• Watershed management is crucial for overall water sustainability and management in rural and urban areas. An accurate Watershed Atlas provides the required data for planning and implementation. To have a look at the Watershed Atlas of India, developed by the Central Ground Water Board, which was identified by the Ministry of Defence as one of the nodal agency for creation of digital data under the Hydrology project in India. The link has been sourced from the website of Central Ground Water Board, Ministry of Water Resources, Government of India. Click here

• An urban area needs to be thought of as an urban watershed, and planning needs to be done in consideration of the natural tendency of flow of water in a watershed. To understand ways by which the concept of watershed conservation can be embedded in the planning and development of cities, click on the paper written by William Frost, Senior Planner, Arlington County Public Works in his paper titled Watershed Planning in a Developed Urban area. Click here

• Urban flooding is a common phenomenon and is linked to land development practices that are not very sensitive to the area’s natural watershed characteristics. Flooding in Mumbai has become almost habitual. Learn more  to understand if the flooding in Mumbai is related to ineffective watershed management. The article has been sourced from Boloji.com from an article written by VK Joshi titled Urban Floods – Bane For the People. Click here