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Research paper thumbnail of Surface Water Management at Micro Level: The Case of NIRDPR, Hyderabad

Journal of Rural Development, 2021

Watershed boundaries do not generally coincide with the boundaries of institutes, villages, and G... more Watershed boundaries do not generally coincide with the boundaries of institutes, villages, and Gram Panchayats. It often renders surface water management difficult / inefficient. This paper explores possibilities of dividing such areas internally as Micro Surface Water Management Units (MSWMUs), taking into consideration internal ridges, valleys, water inflows, and outflows to and from the units to contiguous areas. Thus the watershed concept is applied at the micro-level, even where it does not coincide with natural watershed boundaries. This paper is an experiment taken up within the campus of National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj (NIRDPR), Hyderabad. To test the approach for surface water management, annual runoff volume (yield) estimations were made for each MSWMUs separately using Strange’s Tables. This method turned out to be a hybrid approach for natural resources management in general and surface water management in particular using man-made administrative boundaries along with natural ridge and valley lines. It gives ways for better management of surface water especially within the administrative boundaries, but not limited to institutes, villages, and Gram Panchayats. How to do it in a technically smart way is the crux of this paper.
Keywords: micro surface water management units, MSWMU, watershed, Strange’s Tables, NIRDPR

Research paper thumbnail of Surface Water Management at Micro Level: The Case of NIRDPR, Hyderabad

Journal of Rural Development, Vol. 40 No. (3) pp 384-403, 2021

Watershed boundaries do not generally coincide with the boundaries of institutes, villages, and G... more Watershed boundaries do not generally coincide with the boundaries of institutes, villages, and Gram Panchayats. It often renders surface water management difficult / inefficient. This paper explores possibilities of dividing such areas internally as Micro Surface Water Management Units (MSWMUs), taking into consideration internal ridges, valleys, water inflows, and outflows to and from the units to contiguous areas. Thus the watershed concept is applied at the micro-level, even where it does not coincide with natural watershed boundaries. This paper is an experiment taken up within the campus of National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj (NIRDPR), Hyderabad. To test the approach for surface water management, annual runoff volume (yield) estimations were made for each MSWMUs separately using Strange’s Tables. This method turned out to be a hybrid approach for natural resources management in general and surface water management in particular using man-made administrative boundaries along with natural ridge and valley lines. It gives ways for better management of surface water especially within the administrative boundaries, but not limited to institutes, villages, and Gram Panchayats. How to do it in a technically smart way is the crux of this paper.
Keywords: micro surface water management units, MSWMU, watershed, Strange’s Tables, NIRDPR

Research paper thumbnail of Rwre–A Web Based Open Source Gis Tool for Roof Water Runoff Estimation

Journal of Rural Development

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Research paper thumbnail of GIS-Based Study of Existing Community Infrastructure and Optimum Requirements at Gram Panchayat Level for Assessment of Gaps Using Participatory and Departmental Approach: A Case of Hantra Gram Panchayat, Bharatpur District, Rajasthan

National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Hyderabad, 2021

Demand gap analysis on community Infrastructure at village level using GIS, Departmental and Part... more Demand gap analysis on community Infrastructure at village level using GIS, Departmental and Participatory approach.

Research paper thumbnail of Surface Water Management at Micro Level: The Case of NIRDPR, Hyderabad

Journal of Rural Development, 2021

Watershed boundaries do not generally coincide with the boundaries of institutes, villages, and G... more Watershed boundaries do not generally coincide with the boundaries of institutes, villages, and Gram Panchayats. It often renders surface water management difficult / inefficient. This paper explores possibilities of dividing such areas internally as Micro Surface Water Management Units (MSWMUs), taking into consideration internal ridges, valleys, water inflows, and outflows to and from the units to contiguous areas. Thus the watershed concept is applied at the micro-level, even where it does not coincide with natural watershed boundaries. This paper is an experiment taken up within the campus of National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj (NIRDPR), Hyderabad. To test the approach for surface water management, annual runoff volume (yield) estimations were made for each MSWMUs separately using Strange’s Tables. This method turned out to be a hybrid approach for natural resources management in general and surface water management in particular using man-made administrative boundaries along with natural ridge and valley lines. It gives ways for better management of surface water especially within the administrative boundaries, but not limited to institutes, villages, and Gram Panchayats. How to do it in a technically smart way is the crux of this paper.
Keywords: micro surface water management units, MSWMU, watershed, Strange’s Tables, NIRDPR

Research paper thumbnail of Surface Water Management at Micro Level: The Case of NIRDPR, Hyderabad

Journal of Rural Development, Vol. 40 No. (3) pp 384-403, 2021

Watershed boundaries do not generally coincide with the boundaries of institutes, villages, and G... more Watershed boundaries do not generally coincide with the boundaries of institutes, villages, and Gram Panchayats. It often renders surface water management difficult / inefficient. This paper explores possibilities of dividing such areas internally as Micro Surface Water Management Units (MSWMUs), taking into consideration internal ridges, valleys, water inflows, and outflows to and from the units to contiguous areas. Thus the watershed concept is applied at the micro-level, even where it does not coincide with natural watershed boundaries. This paper is an experiment taken up within the campus of National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj (NIRDPR), Hyderabad. To test the approach for surface water management, annual runoff volume (yield) estimations were made for each MSWMUs separately using Strange’s Tables. This method turned out to be a hybrid approach for natural resources management in general and surface water management in particular using man-made administrative boundaries along with natural ridge and valley lines. It gives ways for better management of surface water especially within the administrative boundaries, but not limited to institutes, villages, and Gram Panchayats. How to do it in a technically smart way is the crux of this paper.
Keywords: micro surface water management units, MSWMU, watershed, Strange’s Tables, NIRDPR

Research paper thumbnail of Rwre–A Web Based Open Source Gis Tool for Roof Water Runoff Estimation

Journal of Rural Development

Research paper thumbnail of GIS-Based Study of Existing Community Infrastructure and Optimum Requirements at Gram Panchayat Level for Assessment of Gaps Using Participatory and Departmental Approach: A Case of Hantra Gram Panchayat, Bharatpur District, Rajasthan

National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Hyderabad, 2021

Demand gap analysis on community Infrastructure at village level using GIS, Departmental and Part... more Demand gap analysis on community Infrastructure at village level using GIS, Departmental and Participatory approach.