Centrality of panchayati raj in water conservation management
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31/08/2008
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Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
The solution to the decline of water resources is today often addressed to the revival of community traditions and people's participation in water management. The success of water management crucially entails working out collective protocols of equitable and sustainable use of surface and ground water, bringing together of scientists and farmers to evolve a dryland agriculture package and a host of other livelihood patterns, detailed land-use planning at the micro-watershed level and the mobilisation of rural communities in the direction of the disadvantaged. However, any strategy for water conservation, management and utilization need a community based and region specific strategy that is owned by the people who have to implement it.