GRASSROOT INITITATIVE Water in the wells View the slideshow 1. The scourge of water scarcity in Saurashtra Saurashtra was not always a water-scarce area. People say that water was easily availa... |
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Top view of a Kui Paar system: Paar is a common water harvesting practice in the western Rajasthan region. It is a common place where the rainwater flows from the agar (catchment) and in the proce... |
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Changing Comsumption Patterns in Human Settlements: Transportation Planning and Management Did you know? A transport crisis of major proportions is looming on ...... |
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Artificial Glaciers A great example of how decentralised approaches to water harvesting boost innovation comes from Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir. Chewang Norphel , retired engineer of the department of ... |
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D O S S I E R S C omprehensive collection of research and policy papers on water harvesting To access these reports, fill up the form that appears at the bottom of this page RESEARCH Kolkata water pro... |
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Sukhomajri Model Village In the early 1980s , the people of Sukhomajri village in Shivalik range of the Himalaya in Haryana's Ambala district earned nation-wide acclaim for the way in which the... |
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CONTEMPORARY Civil society institutions and government agencies are increasingly taking up water harvesting projects in rural areas. There had been many initiatives where the traditional water harvestin... |
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Catch Water October - November 2002 Onikeri village, Dakshin Kannada, Karnataka By using abundantly available local materials like bamboo and areca nut (supari) husk, farmers of Onikeri village, Dakshi... |
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DECCAN PLATEAU Tudum or monga Tudum or monga are mechanisms used to draw water from Kohli tanks for irrigation. Different mechanisms are used depending on the size of the tank. For a small tank... |
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More of Contemporary Practices A look at some of the common practices adopted to harvest rain... Check dams A check dam is generally constructed on small streams and long gullies formed by the erosive... |
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More results for 'land management'.
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