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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Guidelines and benchmarks for green large area developments: draft final report
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy entrusted ADaRSH with the formulation and development of guidelines and benchmarks for Large Developments including educational institute campuses, housing societies
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Mistake Accepted, NREGA to Focus on 200 Poorest Districts
The government plans to focus its flagship rural jobs guarantee plan on the poorest districts of the country as there is a growing recognition within the administration that the scheme’s nation-wide rollout
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530 watershed projects under OTELP
With the Orissa Tribal Empowerment and Livelihoods Programme (OTELP) entering the second phase, the Government on Thursday decided to take up 530 watershed projects with an investment of Rs 556 crore.
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Ecosystem approaches in integrated water resources management (IWRM): a review of transboundary river basins
Integrated water resources management (IWRM) combines land and water management through broad-based stakeholder participation to realize multiple co-benefits in watersheds. IWRM recognizes the economic
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Payments for ecosystem services and food security
<p>A healthy ecosystem can provide a variety of crucial services for public goods, such as clean water, nutrient cycling, climate regulation and food security services that contribute directly or indirectly to human well-being. Yet today, many ecosystems are in decline; this is of particular importance to agriculture, which depends on ecosystem services.
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From local watershed management to integrated river basin management at national and transboundary levels.
Watersheds face a range of degradation challenges associated with human activities, such as pollution, deforestation and changes in sediment generation. The way they are managed has a profound cascading
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Stream discharge analysis under different forest covers: A case study from paired microwatersheds of Garhwal Himalaya, India
Two microwatersheds namely Arnigad and Bansigad near Mussoorie, equipped with hydrometeorological instruments were selected to monitor the impact of forest cover on stream discharge. Arnigad microwatershed
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Rainfall runoff study for a watershed using SCS-CN method and GIS
Water is a prime natural resource, a basic human need and precious natural asset. Surface runoff is the major source for all the major source for all the surface water bodies such as tanks and reservoirs.
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Modelling runoff using modified SCS-CN method in Shivalik micro-watersheds
In engineering practice, simple methods are important for predicting runoff from watersheds particularly for flood forecasting and water balance calculations. In the present study, it is illustrated that
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Dhumal Govt launches project to cut down carbon emissions
The Prem Kumar Dhumal Government in Himachal Pradesh has launched a United Nations-aided project under which carbon emissions will be reduced by 40,000 tonnes per year for two decades.