[Assam] [WaterWatch] Re: [ECwatch] Press Release on Groundwater crisis

[mc mahant]

Those crying Wolf need go back to  complete a Geoscience degree course.
Those who give Directives need to restart at High Scool Science level.
Blind leading the blind. 
Mera Bharat Mahaan


To: WaterWatch at yahoogroups.comFrom: rohit.pathania at gmail.comDate: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:59:57 +0530Subject: Re: [WaterWatch] Re: [ECwatch] Press Release on Groundwater crisis




What measures need to be brought in to prevent overexploitation of groundwater? Do you think that nominal charging on groundwater, as is going to be adopted by the various states on the reccomendations of the Union Ministry of Water Resources be of much help, considering the fact that it does not talk at all about actually preventing wastage due to runoffs during rains, or for that matter, watershed development? 
On 9/13/07, Ramesh Athavale <rathavale at gmail.com> wrote: 





Ground Water is definitely a renewable resource. The quantum of local annual recharge depends on several factors. Present problem is of overexploitation of ground water. It can be compensated to great extent by resorting to Water Harvesting and Artificial Recharge of surface water in the aquifers. Ramesh Athavale.
On 9/10/07, Martin Zehr <m_zehr at hotmail.com > wrote: 





Groundwater is a non-renewable resource given the time needed to recharge. It needs to be a secondary source of supply and not used for agricultural uses. In the desert environment of NM It became apparent that the urban uses could not rely on it for extended periods in the future. It has impact on the surface water flow when use creates cones of depression that bring surface water into them. Adaptive governance is totally necessary to establish authority that is based on the users in the region and reflects the science that can predict the consequences of particular allocations and diversions. Current water law is antiquated and all too often based on a rural population model that no longer predominates in the state. Law is further complicated by the multitude of authorities that have jurisdiction over the same water. Martin Zehr________________________________To: slele at isec.ac.inCC: waterwatch at yahoogroups.com; india-ej at googlegroups.com; ecwatch at yahoogroups.com; chhattisgarh-net at yahoogroups.comFrom: ht.sandrp at gmail.comDate: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:30:03 +0530Subject: [WaterWatch] Re: [ECwatch] Press Release on Groundwater crisis
Hi Sharad,I agree with you that it is not wrong in absolute sense, but mis leading as it is incomplete, may be I should have been a little more careful in using that word.I agree with you about the multi layered institutions, starting from bottom up without making fetish of only local control. HimanshuOn 9/10/07, Sharad Lele <slele at isec.ac.in> wrote:Dear Himanshu,I agree with the thrust of your press release, viz., that this issue requires more comprehensive, more integrated, more socially sensitivescience attention that it has tended to receive so far.I would probably disagree to a small extent when you say that 'declinedue to overexploitation' is an "incomplete and wrong analysis". I would say "incomplete yes, but not wrong". There is ample evidence from allparts of the country that the rates of groundwater exploitation haveincreased enormously. The research on watershed development shows that the gains from improved recharge can be easily frittered away if pumpingis not regulated. Hivre Bazar is noteworthy (it got an award recently)precisely because they coupled the two.Therefore, there is no need to cast recharge and regulation of exploitation as an either-or issue. One will have to work at the problemfrom both ends.On the question of governance, I agree with you that a CentralGroundwater Authority is both anti-federalistic and impractical. We need what I have called elsewhere "multi-layered governance", which buildsfrom the bottom upwards without making a fetish of only local control.It would be good to have a discussion at some point on the principles that one can use to think through the governance question in groundwaterand how they interface with surface water governance, watersheddevelopment, forestry, etc.Sharad LeleCISEDp.s. This email will not go through to all the groups that you posted your release on. If you wish, you may forward it to them.--Himanshu ThakkarSouth Asia Network on Dams, Rivers & PeopleDelhi, Indiahimanshuthakkar at iitbombay.orght.sandrp@gmail.comwww.sandrp.in



__._,_.___ 
Messages in this topic (0) Reply (via web post) | Start a new topic 
Messages | Files | Photos | Links | Database | Polls | Calendar 

 Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch format to Traditional Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe 


Recent Activity


 3
New MembersVisit Your Group 


Yahoo! Finance
It's Now Personal
Guides, news,
advice & more.

Y! Messenger
Instant hello
Chat over IM with
group members.

Stay in Shape
on Yahoo! Groups
Find a fitness Group
& get motivated.
. __,_._,___ 





People crying Wolf
_________________________________________________________________
Download the latest version of Windows Live Messenger NOW!
http://get.live.com/en-ie/messenger/overview
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://assamnet.org/pipermail/assam_assamnet.org/attachments/20070915/7bb4fc59/attachment.html