Subrata Singh

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How do we ascertain the percentage of water recharge available through sub-surface wells?

Dear Sir/Madam, I am a practitioner working on watershed development. I work in Odisha which is a high rainfall area (1200-1400 mm annual rainfall) and in areas where the main source of irrigation...

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What are the various innovative approaches to creating shared knowledge about managing surface and groundwater?

I am looking for the role of knowledge and information in informing decision making by communities and farmer's choices about surface and ground water management. We are exploring...

07 September 2018 5,864 7 View

On what water doctrine is the Indian water laws based?

Legal systems for governance of water in different countries are based on either of the range of water doctrines - riparian doctrine, the doctrine of prior appropriation and the non-priority...

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Can we say that byelaws can be an effective tool for securing tenure as a collective as well as for individual members? Examples or published paper?

I am looking for options of securing rights of the collective groups and individual members to collective resources such as water (tanks, ponds, etc), common land or invisible resources such as...

29 December 2017 9,268 5 View

Are there successful cases or experiments at delinking Water Rights from Land Rights?

I am working on a project on 'Water Commons' which has an objective of improving community governance on water resources in India. In augmenting and improving water availability through creation...

15 January 2015 5,454 6 View

How can governing institutions help in more equitable distribution of water?

Water is a common resource. But water resources are largely related to land and land owners. Institutional structures around water are also focus on the land owners in the command areas like the...

17 September 2014 1,798 4 View

Re-imagining Public Land Protection Cells

The judgment by Markandey Katju, J. and Gyan Sudha Mishra was a landmark judgment for the management and governance of the commons in the country. It provided a hope and momentum for the...

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Carbon vs Ecological Services

Carbon sequestration is becoming a common currency across ecosystems - Reducing the value of ecological services to that of carbon. We understand, carbon is just a small portion of the ecological...

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Evolution of water laws in India

Legal systems for governance of water in different countries are based on either of the range of water doctrines - riparian doctrine, the doctrine of prior appropriation and the non-priority...

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