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Hydropower Development in NE India
The North Eastern region is a storehouse of immense possibilities for hydropower by virtue of its majestic rivers. However, a carefully drafted plan which is inclusive of concerns for all the stakehol...
Wither Big Dams, Long Live Big Dams the debate continues
The debate on dams explores the classic clash between official discourse on development and people’s aspirations at large. Because of the ecological, cultural and spatial configurations of states, iss...
Water Governance Role of Panchayats
Water is life giving. Planning for it is a collective responsibility. Panchayati Raj Institutions and the decentralized planning through active participation of community members provide some clues to...
Thinking Water Thinking Women
Several scholars have suggested that there is intrinsic affinity between women and nature and both are subordinated by patriarchal processes, women by men and nature by culture – an ideological positi...
Freshwater News
An update on recent happenings in the of world fresh water in the national perspective.
Cloudburst
Cloudbursts or downpours have no strict meteorological definition. The term usually signifies a sudden, heavy fall of rain over a short period of time. A localised weather phenomena, cloudbursts leads...
Groundwater Resources Uttarakhand
It is ironical that despite having the potential to act as a water reservoir of India by virtue of its extraordinarily dense drainage network and natural sources, Uttarakhand suffers from water shorta...
Chhattisgarh Ground Water Resource
The strain on Chhattisgarh’s water resources can be adjudged from the fact that there is a four fold increase in ground water draft from 1990 to 2004. In fact the stage of groundwater development has...
Precipitation Extremes
It may be inferred from our study that higher moist convective instability coupled with enough moisture availability during the southwest monsoon season can increase the occurrence of deep convection....
Managing Water in Thar
Despite sizeable knowledge of water conservation systems, compulsions of modern era developments have gradually turned the Thar poor so far as availability and workable traditional water harvesting sy...