Watershed Management
The Department of Land Resources, Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India has initiated a discussion forum on “Improving community participation in Watershed Management” for which there has been an overwhelming response from the citizens of the country. We have received many useful suggestions and views on the subject.
The enthusiastic participation in the discussion has shown that people are concerned about the issue of water availability in the country. Very interesting views and ideas have been thrown in the discussion by some of which are being mentioned here.
Watershed management today is synonymous with poverty alleviation. A number of people have suggested the need for involving the community in watershed management. They have also said that all sections of the society should be involved in this work. There are also suggestions to provide incentives to people to implement water harvesting works on the principles of watershed management. There is almost unanimous view on implementing drip irrigation for efficient use of water in agriculture and horticulture. Some have reflected that aging water infrastructure, increasing demand, continued land use change, and increasingly extreme weather events are driving the costs of water management higher. Investing in integrated water management strategies that combine engineered solutions with “natural infrastructure” can reduce costs, enhance services, and provide a suite of co-benefits for communities and the environment.
More emphasis has to be given to in-situ soil moisture conservation practices and irrespective of the ownership of the land, contour bunds, gully plugging, stabilization of sloping land etc should be given more importance than mere check dam construction. There are also suggestions about recharging aquifers, storage of rain water in farm lands, building low cost structures for water harvesting and removing encroachments from kunds, talavs and other traditional water harvesting structures. There are also suggestions that good work done in watershed management must be shared.
A number of posts are also about other related issues of water management though not a part of watershed management, like the issue of rain water harvesting in the urban areas, collection and use of discharge water from cities and river linking in the country,
We have taken note of the posts and are working on bringing out a document on the key suggestions that have been made by the citizens. With time, these suggestions will definitely influence the program being implemented by the Department in a positive way.
The discussion forum has been active since September 2014 and has received more than two thousand posts and has served a very useful purpose. Therefore we will be closing this Discussion group shortly. We will subsequently come out with a Discussion group on another relevant aspect of water management in the country.
We hope that you shall keep up the participation and continue enriching us with your views and suggestions. We would also expect the participants to keep focused on the topic of the discussion so that the ideas, experiences and knowledge are shared in a useful manner.
Thanks to all who participated in a very meaningful way.
Watershed Management Team, Department of Land Resources
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I am ramkumar an environmentalist cum technocrat. 100% RWH is to be made mandatory, grey water ( hand wash, bath, soap water, vessels water ) should be used for plants through planted filter in all cities and towns, Toilet/black water should be treated with natural enzyme and bacteria actyzyme and should be used for plants in planted filter or left to sewage canal. We have done all in our house
Dear sir,
The following regulation required for the improvement as above mentioned subject "WATERSHED MANAGEMENT.
As follows
1)National Level :
2)State level
3)District level
4)Community Level (Gram Sabha)
if we will follow the above rules & regulations strictly Then automatically we will find the improvement.
My suggtion might sound weird but we have rain in many parts or the country and in other parts like Vidarbha in Maharashtra, its all dry like summer. We can create artificial water lakes in both parts of rain and no rain. Rain water can be collected in these water lakes which can be transported to other parts of country where there is no rain. Here exp are only of transtn as we are not purchasing water. This water collected in lakes can be directly used for farming purpose. No purification req.
According to a study by NASA they stated that groundwater level is decreasing in the northern parts of India which is a matter of concern, so i would like to say that i have an idea which can be implemented to save the groundwater level . Sir we can have underground water tanks which can store water for longer times and an be released under it so as to increase the ground water level which would increase the fertility of the land and water will be available at any time . THANK YOU!
In rural area , water management is not implemented in time . I belong to Thanjavur district ( AVANAM VILLAGE,PERAVOORANI TALUK-PINCODE-614623). Lakes and Ponds are not de-silted (july15) – Cauvery water though it is delayed , it can be expected atleast in next one month time . However tanks and lakes adjacent to GRAND ANAICUT canal is not de-silted . Before rainy season starts in october ,all water storing areas such ponds,tanks and lakes are not de-silted .This will affect paddy cultivation.
I am a am farmer from Vidarbha.Thre is no irrigation for my land.Water level very low.Wells or tube wells not feasible.My suggestion is to have small tanks in and near fields . These tanks to store rain water and then use this stored water by farmers.This can be done under newly launched Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojna.
Due to climate change. there is less chance of rains , so we need to look for alternative(s). Cloud seeding is one of the method, the government should ensure with consultaions of indian states to do cloud seeding for rains sothat we can save Agriculture and water.
Manu.
FARMERS’ PARTICIPATION IN WATER MANAGEMET OF IRRIGATION PROJECTS India is Agriculture dependent country. About 70% Indians are dependent on agriculture. Due to untimely rains farmers’ have to face many problems and challenges. To overcome these challenges successive governments have implemented many large, medium and small irrigation projects and spent thousands of crores of Rupees on these projects. However, many of these projects are under utilised.
Farmers are NOT even aware of the kind o
i think to save more water which is coming from the rain and to solve the problem of water in the summer days is to dig the small holes at both sides of the roads in the cities so that the water coming from rain and falling on roads may sock into the ground without flowing to other end of the roads.because of the hard roads all over the cities water falling on the ground is not going into to the ground hence because of that we facing the problem of water like drought in summer season.thank you.
Good Evening sir,
Recently I gone through with your ‘Man Ki Baat’. In that u mentioned and appealed the people about Rain Water Harvesting. Its so nice and good idea. I have an idea regarding this. For making it grand success involve private, Govt. schools, colleges, educational institutions and all Govt, private offices. Everybody agrees about the success of you in ‘Swachch Bharat’ by involving students. This time also, in Rain Harvesting you can get same type of progress and support. There are