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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Water: Charting a course for the future II
<p>Water has suddenly become a favoured subject for seminars and conferences all over the world.
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Water: Charting a course for the future I
<p>Water has suddenly become a favoured subject for seminars and conferences all over the world.
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Water revolution
It is not easy to initiate a movement for water conservation in the face of drought. But the Madhya Pradesh government pushed forward in all the villages of the state
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Self help
Democracy of the people, by the people and for the people . Madhya Pradesh takes the lead
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Fact or fiction
It is time proponents of large dams opened their eyes to scientific proof that establishes the efficacy of small water harvesting structures in fighting drought
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Redressing ecological poverty through participatory democracy: case studies from India
<p>For the rural poor – who depend above all the land for their survival – a central development challenge is to sustain a base of natural capital that can support a robust local economy. In India, government mismanagement of forests, grazing lands, and water resources has often alienated rural people and exacerbated resource degradation.
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Tryst with rain
Following the monsoon failure of 1999 2000, two states Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh launched crash programmes to encourage water harvesting. An appreciable shift, because governments in India have always gone in for high cost, high technology solutions
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Learning the mantra
<b>Report card:</b> The government realised its failures and learned from the civil society. Despite cases of corruption and some errors in planning, the government programme is an achievement<br> <b>Success level:</b> Good
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Political harvest
<b>Report card:</b> A scheme that can help solve the water crisis has become a tool to promote political interests of the ruling party<br> <b>Success level:</b> Poor
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Drought is in the mind
<b>GOOD NEWS:</b> There is more evidence to show that water harvesting can go a long way in dealing with drought and solving the water crisis, and even governments in India are learning<br> <b>BAD NEWS:</b> Crash programmes are not the answers by themsel