Approaching the rehabilitation of the 50-100 year-old irrigation tanks?spread across Rajasthan, South Bihar, Madya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, and other South Asian locations such as Sri Lanka?solely from an irrigation perspective, runs the risk of depriving communities of val...
International Water Management Institute
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[Rethinking tank rehabilitation: issues in restoring old tanks to their original state in irrigation structure]
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Rethinking tank rehabilitation: issues in restoring old tanks to their original state in irrigation structure
Many people still believe that India?s irrigation water mainly comes from canal irrigation systems. While this may have been true in the past, recent research shows that groundwater irrigation has overtaken surface-water irrigation as the main supplier of water for India?s crops. Groundwater now ...
International Water Management Institute
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[Balancing agricultural development with environmental protection]
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Balancing agricultural development with environmental protection
International Water Management Institute
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[Drought assessment and mitigation in Southwest Asia: issues and prospects: synthesis report]
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Drought assessment and mitigation in Southwest Asia: issues and prospects: synthesis report
This report covers phase 2 of the IWMI-Tata Water Policy Research Program (ITP) for the period 2006-2010. The major areas of action: Research focusing on water sector issues concerning underprivileged communities and backward regions in the country; Idea-incubation for livelihoods enhancement eff...
International Water Management Institute
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[IWMI-TATA Water Policy Research Program Annual report 2009]
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IWMI-TATA Water Policy Research Program Annual report 2009
Based on research presented in the technical paper ?Artificial recharging of groundwater: An experiment in the Madhya Ganga Canal Project, India, by R. Sakthivadivel and A. S. Chawala