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Indo-Gangetic river basins: Summary situation analysis by Challenge Program on Water and Food

The paper by the Challenge Programme on Water and Food (CPWF) - Basin Focal Project provides a brief situation analysis related to water, agriculture & poverty, water resources, water productivity, institutional aspects and opportunities & risks related to the development of the Indo-Gangetic basin (IGB). Management of IGB water resources presents some formidable challenges and, therefore, steps must be taken towards integrated management of the IGB’s water and land resources in order to ensure the future sustainability of all production and ecosystems in the basin. Read More

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Allahabad, UP, India
Latitude: 25.442540, Longitude: 81.829866

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Content Type: Research
Category: Agriculture, Alkalinity, Cropping Pattern, Ecosystems, Energy, Groundwater, Groundwater Exploitation, Land Use, Poverty, Rainfed Agriculture, River Basins, Rivers, Salinity, Water Productivity, Water Resources, Water Use, Waterlogging
Associated People / Organizations: International Water Management Institute, National Rainfed Area Authority of India
Author: Upali A Amarasinghe, Challenge Programme on Water and Food, Bharat R Sharma, Alok Sikka
Source: Challenge Programme on Water and Food
Location / Time: Afghanistan, Allahabad, Bagmati, Bangladesh, Beas, Bhagirathi, Calcutta, Chenab, China, Damodar, Gandak, Ganga, Ghaghra, Gomti, Guddu Barrage, Haridwar, Hindu Kush, India, Indus, Jhelum, Kabul, Kosi, Kurram, Lower Indus, Nepal, Pakistan, Ramganga, Ravi, Satluj, Sone, South Asia, Southern Himalayas, Swat, Tibet, Upper Indus, Yamuna, 2008
Difficulty Level: Intermediate

Inland fishery in a traditionally vegetarian State: A Gujarat story by CAREWATER

The study by Carewater INREM Foundation attempts to understand the factors, which have caused explosive growth in culture fishery production in Gujarat. It tries to understand and analyze the institutional arrangement for leasing of water bodies for culture fishery and changes that have occurred over the past 50 years in Gujarat.

The interactions-conflicts and cooperation between irrigators and fisher folk in inland water bodies has been analyzed. The impact of these on productivity, equity, livelihoods, employment, food security, nutrition of vulnerable section including women in rural areas is assessed.Read More

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Bharuch, GJ, India
Latitude: 21.715981, Longitude: 72.977386

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Content Type: Case Studies
Category: Conflicts, Culture Fishery, Fish Farming, Fisheries, Fisherman Cooperative, Historical Water Bodies, Institutions, Irrigation, New Institutional Economics (NIE), Stakeholders, Water Bodies
Associated People / Organizations: International Water Management Institute
Author: Santanu Ghosh, Rajanarayan Indu, Carewater INREM Foundation
Source: Carewater INREM Foundation
Location / Time: Amod, Ankleshwar, Bharuch, Gujarat, Hansot, India, Jambusar, Jhagaria, Narmada, Surat, Ukai, Vagra, Valia, 2008
Difficulty Level: Expert

Groundwater Management - Typology of challenges, approaches and opportunities - Research papers from the conference organised by ACWADAM and Arghyam at Pune (May 2009)

ACWADAM A workshop on groundwater was organised by ACWADAM and Arghyam Trust in Pune in May 2009, that brought together several experts in the field, and explored diverse topics such as the importance of scale in groundwater resource planning and management, importance of aquifer typologies, participatory processes of groundwater management, groundwater regulation and groundwater linkages with watershed development, markets and policy matters.Read More

The attempt of the workshop and research papers presented, was to highlight contemporary issues in groundwater management, and to look at it through the multiple lenses of hydrogeology, sociology, economics, livelihoods, environment, disasters and so on.

Location

Bangalore, KA, India
Latitude: 12.971606, Longitude: 77.594376

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Content Type: Case Studies, Research
Category: Aquifers, Decentralised Water Management, Disasters, Droughts, Floods, Groundwater, Groundwater Exploitation, Groundwater Irrigation, Groundwater Management, Groundwater Quality, Groundwater Recharge, Groundwater Regulation, Hydro-geology, Rainwater Harvesting, Water Markets, Water Quality, Watershed Development
Associated People / Organizations: Advanced Centre for Water Resources Development and Management (ACWADAM), Andhra Pradesh Farmer-managed Groundwater Systems Project (APFAMGS), Arghyam, Arid Communities and Technologies, Biome Environmental Solutions Private Limited, Carewater-INREM Foundation, Groundwater Surveys and Development Agency - Government of Maharashtra, International Environmental Law Research Centre (IELRC), International Water Management Institute, Megh Pyne Abhiyan, Rainwater Club, Samaj Pragati Sahayog
Author: Yogesh Jadeja, Vishwanath S., Vikas Kharage, Uma Badarayani, Tushaar Shah, Sunil MS, Sunderrajan Krishnan, Shubha Ramachandran, Ravi Kanth Ganti, Rakesh Gupta, PS Vijay Shankar, Philippe Cullet, Nathan Stell, Karan Singh, Himanshu Kulkarni, Harshvardhan Dhawan, Eklavya Prasad, Devdutt Upasani, Avinash Krishnamurthy
Source: Advanced Centre for Water Resources Development and Management (ACWADAM), Arghyam
Location / Time: Andhra Pradesh, Bangalore, Dewas, Gujarat, India, Karnataka, Kutch, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Pune, 2009
Difficulty Level: Expert
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Fluoride-free drinking water supply in North Gujarat - The rise of reverse osmosis plants as a cottage industry

This study by Carewater focuses on the large number of ‘cottage’ type Reverse Osmosis (RO) plants that came to be marketed for supplying good and safe water to the consumers under ‘packed drinking water’ category, and a big market for which emerged in North Gujarat. For the purposes of this study, ‘fluoride-free water’ means treated water containing prescribed quantity of fluoride and not completely ‘fluoride-free’. The objective was to study these plants, its clientele and to estimate the future of this ‘sunrise’ industry.Read More

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Location

Mehsana, GJ, India
Latitude: 23.599480, Longitude: 72.391533

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Content Type: Research
Category: Agriculture, Drinking Water, Fluoride, Groundwater, Industry, Irrigation, Mineral Water, Packaged Water, Reverse Osmosis, Rural Water Supply, Water Contamination, Water Quality, Water Supply, Water Treatment
Associated People / Organizations: International Water Management Institute
Author: Rajanarayan Indu, Carewater INREM Foundation
Source: Carewater INREM Foundation
Location / Time: Chanasma, Gujarat, India, Ismailpur, Kadi, Khali, Kuktupur, Mahesana, Maktupur, Methan, North Gujarat, Patan, Sidhpur, Unjh, Visnagar, 2002
Difficulty Level: Beginner

Fluorosis in Gujarat - a disaster ahead

This study by Carewater highlights the problem of increasing cases of Fluorosis through fluoride contaminated groundwater in North Gujarat and its misdiagnosis as Musculo-skeletal disease, which could precipitate into a severe health problem in the coming years.Read More

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Fluorosis in Gujarat - A disaster ahead - Carewater (2008)	253.78 KB

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Content Type: Case Studies, Research
Category: Agriculture, Contamination, Dental Fluorosis, Drinking Water, Fluoride, Fluorosis, Irrigation, Total Dissolved Solids (TDS), Water Quality, Water Supply, Water and Health, Water-borne Diseases
Associated People / Organizations: International Water Management Institute
Author: Rajanarayan Indu, Dr Tushaar Shah
Source: Carewater
Location / Time: Gujarat, India, 2008
Difficulty Level: Intermediate

Impacts of groundwater contamination with fluoride and arsenic - Affliction severity, medical cost and wage loss in Indian villages

This document on the study conducted by IWMI on the Carewater site aimed at understanding the economic and social burden experienced by people afflicted with contamination of water due to higher percentages of fluoride and arsenic in the water. The objectives of the study were:Read More

To map the severity of affliction
To estimate the medical costs incurred by the afflicted families in treating the diseases
To estimate the wage loss due to inability to work for affliction
To understand the awareness among the people about quality of water that causes Fluorosis and Arsenicosis

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Impact of groundwater contamination with fluoride and arsenic - Affliction, severity and wage loss - IWMI - Carewater (2010)	273.34 KB

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Content Type: Case Studies, Research
Category: Arsenic, Contamination, Drinking Water, Ecosystems, Fluoride, Fluorosis, Water Quality, Water Resources, Water and Health, Water-borne Diseases
Associated People / Organizations: International Water Management Institute
Author: Tushaar Shah, Sunderrajan Krishnan, Rajnarayan Indu
Source: Carewater
Location / Time: Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, India, Karnataka, Rajasthan, Tamilnadu, 2010
Difficulty Level: Intermediate

Cauvery delta : a new reality (March 2004)

"Cauvery delta : a newreality", is a report by Lalitha Sridhar, written in March 2004, on how Tamil Nadu's Thanjavur district, once among the most prodRead More

Location

Thanjavur, TN, India
Latitude: 10.784820, Longitude: 79.142029

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Content Type: Case Studies
Category: Agriculture, Asian Development Bank (ADB), Cauvery, Drinking Water, Groundwater Pollution, International Development Agencies, Irrigation, River Basins, Rivers, Small and marginal farmers, Society, Water Scarcity, World Bank (WB)
Associated People / Organizations: International Water Management Institute, World Water Institute
Author: Lalitha Sridhar
Source: IndiaTogether.org
Location / Time: Andhra Pradesh, India, March, Tamilnadu, Thanjavur, 2004
Difficulty Level: Intermediate

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