Malawi economic monitor, February 2024
Watersheds play a crucial role in sustaining the ecosystem, biodiversity, wildlife, agriculture, and human population by serving as the natural resource base for all forms of life. These natural boundaries
Watershed Development
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Paying for watershed services: an effective tool in the developing world?
Payments for watershed services (PWS) are an increasingly popular conservation and water management tool in developing countries. Some schemes are thriving, and are pro-poor. Others are stalling or have
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Water and the green economy: capacity development aspects
UNW-DPC launched this new book on "Water and the Green Economy: Capacity Development Aspects". The book gives special attention to the needs related to capacity development for water resources management,
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Bengal yet to submit report on watershed programme
NEW DELHI, 29 APRIL: The Union rural development ministry has claimed that the West Bengal government has “not submitted a single project” under the integrated watershed programme in the last three years
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Land cover and rainfall interact to shape waterbird community composition
Human land cover can degrade estuaries directly through habitat loss and fragmentation or indirectly through nutrient inputs that reduce water quality. Strong precipitation events are occurring more frequently,
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Corporates give Rs100-cr boost to watershed management in State
Besides administrative machinery, the corporate sector is also playing an important role in the implementation of the Integrated Watershed Area Management Programme in Madhya Pradesh. Works to the tune
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‘Advocate participatory approach for sustainable farming'
The need to combat challenges relating to agriculture in Tamil Nadu in a systematic and scientific manner was stressed by the Additional Chief Secretary, Department of Planning and Special Initiatives R.Vijayakumar here on Tuesday. He was inaugurating a sensitization workshop cum stakeholders consultation on, ‘Soil and Water Conservation and Watershed Management' organized by the Central Soil and Water Conservation Research and Training Institute (CSWCRTI) at Rees Corner.
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Neyyar water: “Kerala sticking to its stand”
Tamil Nadu is repeatedly requesting the Centre to advise Kerala to conclude an agreement on sharing of the Neyyar river water and release it to the State, pending finalisation of the agreement, according to Public Works Minister K.V. Ramalingam. Apprising the Assembly on Friday of various steps taken by the government for securing water for 9,200 acres of ayacut in Vilavancode taluk of the Kanyakumari district, the Minister said that the State had, using toposheets of the Union government,
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Gujarat watershed project bags PM's award for public administration
Gujarat has received the Prime Minister’s Award for Excellence in Public Administration for 2010-11 for a watershed management programme in Patan district, the ancient capital of the western state.
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Increase water use efficiency: PM
Keeping in mind the limitations on increasing water supply, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday said that a large part of effort to plug the demand-supply gap must focus on increasing water use efficiency. “There is no regulation of ground water extraction and no coordination among competing uses. Inadequate and sub-optimal pricing of both power and water is promoting the misuse of groundwater. We need to move to a situation where groundwater can be treated as a common property resource,” he said while inaugurating the first National Water Week.
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Ramesh asks FM to Move $1.4b Water Plans to WB
The projects include a $400 million watershed management programme and a $1 billion rural water supply and sanitation project Rural development minister Jairam Ramesh has asked the finance ministry to