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The book is about India’s ‘water warrior’ Vilasrao Salunke and his community-based water model which has been implemented in villages across Maharashtra. It deals with use of Salunkhe’s model by Anna Hazare to transform Ralegan Siddhi from a dry village to a model village—a transformation that has become an integral part of the alternative development discourse. Salunkhe’s ‘pani panchayat’ model of water management ...
Water sector reforms are underway in many countries of the world today. Mexico, Turkey and Philippines are some of the countries where the concept of Participatory Irrigation Management (PIM) has been tried and tested. In India, Andhra Pradesh is the first state to have gone in with the "big bang" approach of uniform and simultaneous introduction of PIM throughout the state. Today, the Andhra Pradesh model is being watched with great interest and is ...
Springs of Life is a book about water in all its complexities. It is an exhaustive account of water in India, and documents the natural beauty of the water bodies, the ways in which communities live and interact with water, particularly in hostile ecosystems, the resilience of people living in water stressed regions and their common sense solutions to local water problems. Springs of Life is a rare combination of an academic book with a coffee table presentation, ...
The programme of Interlinking of Rivers (ILR) in India has been one of the most ambitious ideas ever, of any government till date. It is an idea that has conjured up visions for the common India-of a country free from floods and droughts, and people in Tamil Nadu tasting the sweet waters of the holy Ganges. Such images of passion and emotion contrasted together with the recurring floods and droughts in various parts of the country have helped those in power to ...