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Water: Policy and performance for sustainable development - India Infrastructure Report 2011

The India Infrastructure Report (2011) brought out by the Infrastructure Development Finance Company focuses on 'water' and seeks to 'evolve an appropriate policy framework from the perspective of rights, entitlements, and conflict resolution mechanisms'. The report aims to answer the following questions:

  • How clear is the strategic vision for water resource management and sustainable development?
  • How effective and equitable is the legal framework?
  • Given that only the supply-side approach will not help in meeting future demand, what legal, regulatory, institutional, and pricing mechanisms will be necessary to efficiently manage and restrain demand?
This information-rich report has data on various topics such as water resources in India (present and projections), irrigation, groundwater, rainfall, urbanization, water institutions, water infrastructure(urban and rural), water economics, and waste water.

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Alternative national water policy - A critique - Economic and Political Weekly

This article published in the discussion section of the Economic and Political Weekly is a critique of the National Water Policy: An alternative draft for consideration, proposed by Ramaswamy Iyer, published in the Economic and Political Weekly, June 25th 2011.Read More

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Environmental flows in water resources policies, plans, and projects - Case studies by IBRD

EFlowThis report comprising a set of case studies by International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) presents how environmental flows is dealt with in water resources policies, plans, and projects. It focuses on the integration of environmental water allocation into integrated water resources management (IWRM) and so fills a major gap in knowledge on IWRM.

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Chilika, OR, India
Latitude: 19.716667, Longitude: 85.316667

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Faster, sustainable and more inclusive growth – An approach to the twelfth five year plan – Draft report by Planning Commission

This draft report by the Planning Commission, which presents an approach to the twelfth five year plan among other things outlines some of the challenges related to agriculture, natural resources management and water resources management. The concerns related to water resources management discussed at length in the report have been summarized below -Read More

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Looking for English versions of Groundwater docs in Karnataka

Submitted by Holly_L on September 2, 2011 - 18:18

I am wondering if there are downloadable English versions of the following documents:

1. Karnataka Groundwater (Regulation and Control of Development and Management) Bill 2011

2. Ground Water Resource Estimation Committee 1997 Methodology Report

3. Dynamic Groundwater Resources of Karnataka, March 2009

Thanks Experts!

Holly_L

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Social equity and integrated water resources management – A background paper by Global Water Partnership

This background paper by Humberto Peña, Global Water Partnership deals with what social equity means in the context of water management. It provides an analytical framework that policy makers and water professionals can use to bring greater clarity to the issue of social equity in their local context.

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Prospects and policy challenges in the Twelfth Plan – A special article by Montek Singh Ahluwalia in EPW

This paper by Montek Singh Ahluwalia in Economic and Political Weekly attempts to review the recent performance of the economy and lists the priorities and challenges for the Twelfth Plan. The year 2011-12 is the last year of the Eleventh Plan and this is therefore an appropriate time to review what has been achieved with a view to identify weaknesses in the strategy that need to be corrected, and also identify new challenges that may require new initiatives. The paper is presented in the hope of spurring a broader discussion on these issues.

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Groundwater governance in India – A case study by World Bank

This case study by the World Bank aims to understand and address the paradox at the heart of the groundwater governance challenge in India in order to elevate the need for investing in and promoting proactive reforms toward its management. It examines the impediments to better governance of groundwater, and explores opportunities for using groundwater to help developing countries adapt to climate change. It attempts to understand the practical issues that arise in establishing robust national governance frameworks for groundwater and in implementing these frameworks at the aquifer level.

The case study focused on the national, state and local levels. At the national and state levels, it analyzed the policy, legal, and institutional arrangements to identify the demand and supply management and incentive structures that have been established for groundwater management. At the local level, it assessed the operations, successes, and constraints facing local institutions in the governance of a number of aquifers within peninsula India, on the coast and on the plain of the Ganges river valley.

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Lucknow, UP, India
Latitude: 26.846511, Longitude: 80.946683

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Water governance guidelines for practitioners - Sahjeevan's experiences in decentralised drinking water management

CoverThis report is based on the experience of women’s collectives promoted by Sahjeevan and of several member organizations of Abhiyan on local water governance, in particular on the demonstrated models of decentralized drinking water that they have taken up in several villages. Based on these experiences, Sahjeevan has formulated water governance guidelines for practitioners, which has been presented in this report.

Water has been the central theme for development in Kutch. In the last two decades, a scaling up process of decentralized drinking water, popularly known as Pani Thiye Panjo, has been initiated in around hundred villages of Abdasa taluka in Kutch district of Gujarat focusing on development of local drinking water sources, their strengthening and building capacities of communities for maintenance and management of the systems to develop drinking water security at the village level.

The concept of Pani Thiye Panjo, has been well accepted as Abdasa model, which besides providing drinking water security, initiated policy dialogues at the local level on issues such as protection of groundwater, pricing mechanism of water (local vis-à-vis external sources), role of Panchayati Raj Institutions in water governance, role of local youth in developing their technical capacities and development of social capital in management of drinking water systems.

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Kutch, GJ, India
Latitude: 23.265765, Longitude: 69.097023

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Integrated River Basin Planning – Experience on policy and practice in Pamba River Basin in Kerala – A report by APSF Environment Project

Pamba River BasinThese reports by the APSF (Action Plan Support Facility) Environment project supported by the Government of Kerala and its Pamba River Authority under a European Union funded project deal with the Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) roadmap for the Pamba River Basin and present a replicable model for river basin management of intra-state rivers in India. The Pamba Pilot Project’s aim was to deliver “Policy Support to Integrated River Basin Management” and to contribute to the continuing EU-India policy dialogue in the water sector.

The Pamba Basin IWRM pilot project has been implemented through targeted training/working sessions, consultations, a broad stakeholder forum as well as a final dialogue on the IWRM Roadmap for the Pamba River Basin. Moreover, the press was invited at several occasions assuring that the process towards IWRM in the Pamba Basin reached an even broader group of stakeh olders. The end result was an IWRM Roadmap for the Pamba River Basin that was presented in December 2010 in a stakeholder dialogue by the Government of Kerala.

The present document aims to provide relevant background information on global experiences in IWRM approaches as well as experience gained in river management planning in Kerala State that may be replicable in other parts of India.

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Integrated River Basin Planning – Replicable model based on Pamba River Basin in Kerala – A report by APSF Environment Project (2010)2.52 MB

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Alappuza, KL, India
Latitude: 9.490368, Longitude: 76.326492

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