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Central Ground water Commission
Training on Rooftop Rain Water Harvesting
Improving Access to Water on India's Deccan Trap Plateau
[Photo: Villagers in Manhere using rooftop water harvesting system during monsoon.]
Rural Water
Projects Lessons from OED Evaluations PDF
The study is based on the evaluation results of 15
free-standing water and sanitation projects. It integrates the
discoveries of three years of field research into Bank assistance
for rural water and combines the findings of rural water Impact
Evaluations with recent Performance Audits and Implementation
Completion Reports on the topic.
Efficiency and equity in pricing
irrigation water PDF
In this work we investigate efficiency and equity
performance of various irrigation water
pricing methods. We begin, in the next section, with a summary of
water pricing practices as
applied in a number of countries.
Water for Food and
Rural Development :Developing Countries
The use of water for food production accounts for about
75 percent of the total withdrawal in developing countries and is
crucial for sustenance. It is also important for addressing
poverty and rural development. With developing countries
endeavoring to enter the mainstream of development, a formidable
challenge in water resources development, resource use efficiency
and environmental conservation is faced by these countries, in
which management of water for food will continue to remain
prominent.
Dams and Development – An Introduction PDF
Dams have been built for thousands of years – dams
to manage flood waters, to harness water as hydropower, to supply
water to drink or for industry, or to irrigate fields. By 1950,
governments, or in some countries the private sector, were
building increasing numbers of dams as populations increased and
national economies grew. At least 45 000 large dams
have been built as a response to meet an energy or water need.
Today nearly half of the world's rivers have at least one large
dam.
Contingent
Valuation Meets The Cold Truth Of Actual Behavior:
Predicting Connections To New Water Systems In Kerala, India
In 1988 families in Kerala State in India were surveyed
to ascertain willingness to pay for household connections to a
piped water supply system. At Sites A, where the improved
water service was already available, the population was divided
into those who had decided to connect at the existing connection
costs and tariffs, and those who had decided not to
connect. At Site B, where the improved system had not yet
been installed, families were asked whether they would connect
under a variety of hypothetical connection costs and monthly
charges.
Talk at the World
Water Forum
Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, India, Digvijay
Singh's talk
As the world approaches the 30-year anniversary of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment and prepares to review progress made in the decade since Dublin and Rio, we are confronted with results that are mostly disappointing. When it comes to addressing the water resources crisis, the 1990s may well be remembered as a decade of debate rather than action.
Coping with Hydrological Extremes PDF
Coping with hydrological extremes, floods, and droughts has been a major concern since the dawn of human civilization. Freshwater, a necessary condition of life and a raw material used in very high volumes in virtually every human activity, is becoming increasingly scarce. Water use has risen considerably in the last hundred years at a pace exceeding the population growth.
Learning from Experience in India’s Watersheds PDF
Two generations of projects to improve the lot of some of India’s poorest farmers illustrate why development programs have sometimes failed and how program designers, learning from these failures, can modify their plans to achieve lasting success.
Present Challenges in Water Management A Need to See Connections and Interactions PDF
This paper characterizes present challenges in water management worldwide and explores interdependencies between present technologies in water supply, sanitation, organic waste management, agriculture, and food production. The purpose of this discussion is to increase the sensitivity of readers to the connections between actions planned or already taken in different sectors that are usually only marginally considered by the scientific water community.