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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There are no rains in villages to grow the crops n farmers r committing suicide. But the people in Bangalore have closed their ears n eyes I suppose. In spite of hearing about all this in the news they are behaving as if it doesn’t affect them in any way n washing their compounds daily with water.i even complained about this to the Water supply board but they have not taken any measures.Looks like some person from the watersupply dept lives in our area n so not allowing anyone to take measures.
Dear Sir i think we should build check dams wherever possible mostly after every 500 mtr to 1 km 1 check dam should be built & to built these dams village people can work under manerga scheme so that they can get job for 100 days in a year. Also to build check dams we can use waste plastic in huge quantity it should be mixture of Cement and waste plastic cement 30 to 40 percent & plastic waste 60 to 70 percent.
reuesting you sir to make the need full to north karnataka people . all there liveliwood is dependent on farms.And by this project not only farms will get water but also development of north karnataka and industrial corridor will get boost from it . I reuesting u on behalf of farmers .youths .mothers ,sisters of NORTH KARNATAKA. BY THIS REASON AROUND 14 MPS WILL COME WHICH MADE BJP TO COME IN POWER IN 2014 ELECTION ..PLEASE SIR DO THE NEED FULL IN FAST TRACK AND SOLVE THIS PROBLEM
honerable prime minister narendra modiji
As u always talk about team india we feel proud ..but when it comes into reality such team spirit is not showing towards KARNATAKA .iam taking up the issue of KALASA BANDURE NALA YOJANA AND MAHADAYE RIVER JOINING TO MALAPRABA DAM. Which is situated in north karnataka in belgaum district FOR THIS PROJECT FRAMERS ARE FIGHTING SINCE 40 YEARS . IF THIS PROJECT GETS GREEN SIGNAL .ALL FARMS WILL GET WATER AROUND 17 LAKH HECTOR WILL BE BENEFITED. REQUESTING U
Every one should be encouraged to use water very conservatively. In India so many government buildings and public places are there where we can do arrange this mechanism.if it bears fruits than it should transfer gradually towards private sector.
In India water get directly from aquifier through tubewell.A large in number of tubewell leads reduction in water level of aquifier.because consumption of water doesn’t meet recharge time of water in aquifier.my suggestion is that every public building or structure should(must) have arrangement that directs rain water in directly to that aquifier.until now recharge of aquifier is happen naturally and it takes time.and rain water flows to sea via nala,river,etc.and simultaneously
Dear Sir, Currently we are planning to have more dams for Water issues. What about the existing Dams. Each year we have to open the gates of the DAMS. a suggestion will be we can clean all the dams. the soil which is coming to dams is very fertile. So this Soil can be spread across the farming land. and it will increase the hight of DAMS due to which more water will be stored.
Watershed is very important as we see many of the farmers stop farming because of no water.
In many places their is rain but no water this because of they no reserve for water. Yes we have the reservoirs but this water can’t be transported to many villages. Its limited so to avoid this we should store the water locally best example is like Ponds in every village. Every village should have Huge ponds.Each pond in a village should satisfy its Farmers by giving water for agriculture.
Dear Watershed Management Team,
In India we waste liters of water because of leaked and damaged pipelines. Every damaged and leaked water-pipeline should be properly repaired by Govt. Of India or corresponding State Govt. Special survey can be conducted for detecting this kind of problems. This will help and save gallons of water across all over India which would be also helpful to face the water scarcity. Thank You!
What if all india is connected by canals, they can me move form city or state having heavy rain fall to the city or state with low or zero . Like jog jall in karnataka. Water is so clear and pure. Similarly like rail and road , canal can be connect entire country.