posted on 2018-02-12, 15:11authored byFrank Simpson, Girish Sohani
The research project, Conjunctive Use of Water Resources
in Deccan Trap, India, ran from April 1, 1992, to
May 31, 1996. BAIF Development Research Foundation,
Pune, India, and University of Windsor Earth Sciences,
Windsor, Ontario, Canada, worked with the tribal and
rural people of Akole Taluka, Ahmednagar District,
Maharashtra State. The goal was to improve the management
of water resources by the people. The purpose was to
design a management strategy for year-round availability
of a domestic water supply. Participatory management was
an essential component of the project. Demonstration sites
of water harvesting and spreading for conjunctive use
satisfied the domestic water needs of the people within the
project term (Sohani, Simpson, et al., 1998). The project
outcomes are sustainable.
Hartvelt and Okun (1991) and Oyebande (1995) emphasized
the importance of education and training in capacity
building1 for the management of water resources. The
objective of the present account is to describe how these
major components of human resource development contributed
to the success of the project in Akole Taluka and
also has provided a basis for continued cooperation of
BAIF and the University of Windsor, up to the present day.
The authors were the Canadian (FS) and Indian (GS)
project leaders.
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Citation
SIMPSON, F. and SOHANI, G., 2002. Watershed management training, Maharastra, India. IN: Reed, B. (ed). Sustainable environmental sanitation and water services: Proceedings of the 28th WEDC International Conference, Kolkata (Calcutta), India, 18-22 November 2002, 4p.p.
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