Bharuch

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

This multi-location study by Carewater INREM Foundation on inland fisheries in village tanks and ponds attempts to map the changing institutional structure of the aquaculture sector in India. It looks at the socio-economic profile of fish farmers, problems faced by them, physical characteristics & economy of fishing ponds, existing property regimes, source of inputs, management of ponds and fishing as a part of village economy.Read More

This research paper attempts to understand and map the Reverse Osmosis (RO) phenomenon, a technology that is turning out to be an important solution for drinking water treatment in rural Gujarat. Treatment plants with capacity ranging from 10 litres per hour (lph) to 6000 lph are now supplying drinking water in several hundred villages of the state. Small sized plants with capacity < 20 lph are used by individual families whereas medium to large sized plants (>100 lph) are being used for public consumption.Read More