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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED];
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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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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, [EMAIL
PROTECTED]@gmail.comwww.sandrp.in
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