River Linking ProjectPresented By:Swati tyagiMohit narulaPurvi goelGunjan kharbandaPooja raiUtkarsh k.singh

Agenda

• Introduction

• Purpose of NRLP

• Plan of Action

• SWOT Analysis

• PEST Analysis

• Risk

• Suggestions

• References

Introduction• India is a vast country and its water availability varies significantly across regions and river basins.

•NRLP is designed to ease water shortages in west and south India while mitigating the impacts of recurrent floods in the east parts of the Ganga basin.

•envisages meeting India’s future water needs up to 2050.

• The NRLP, if and when implemented, will be one of the biggest interbasin water transfer projects in the world.

•NRLP will directly or indirectly affect well over a billion people in South Asia; and any initiative that influences the course of the NRLP will have a bearing on them.

River linking map of india

Population & Water Resources Available Over the Years

Internally Renewable Water Resources :- 1,260 BCMExternally Renewable Water Resources :- 636 BCMTotal Renewable Water Resources :-1896 BCM

India has the seventh largest and about 4% of the total renewable Resources of the world

Potentially Utilizable Water Resources :- only 58 % of the TRWR

PUWR/person till 2050 :- 701 m3(only 22 % of the PUWR per person in the middle of last century)

Present Water Scenario Of India……

Plan of ActionA high-powered task force has been enjoined with a 3 year of

research program involving a broad alliance of 40-50 Indian

researchers/ institutions.

Specific Objectives

• Build scenarios of what India will be like—its economy, society,

demographics, habitat, and environment – in 2050.

• Analyze whether NRLP is an adequate, cost effective and sustainable

• response—in socio-ecological as well as political terms—towards

the water challenge.

• Identify best practices to implement the NRLP.

Assumptions

•The Taskforce is open to engaging in a discussion on whether NRLP is the best course open for India;

•Antagonists of the NRLP are willing to grant the possibility that the Project may after all be worthwhile, all things considered.

•There is genuine interest, within the government, civil society, media, academia in raising the quality and level of the debate on the NRLP;

•It is feasible to carry out majority of the studies with information readily available or easily collectible.

SWOT Analysis• Strengths

– Rain water harvesting

– Drought proofing and Flood protection

– Food production and management

– Navigation benefits

– Drinking water needs

• Weakness – Conflict between states

– Social issues

– Lack of infrastructure

– Absence of any definite international framework leading to objections by neighboring nations

SWOT Analysis contd..• Opportunity

– Monsoon Agriculture

– Mode of transport

– Combating both Flood and drought simultaneously.

– Generation of additional 34000MW of hydropower.

– Irrigation of additional 35 Million hectares of land.

• Threats– Security issues– High dependence on rivers– Revenue disputes

PEST Analysis

Political •State government conflicts•Agriculture based states

Economical•proposed water transfers will assist more diversification to high-value annual crops•Internal navigation will boost up the Indian economy

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PEST Analysis Cont..

• Social– large projects with many small schemes– Deforestation– Displacement of residential area

• Technological – Lack of technological advancement– projects with diversified cropping patterns- Recharge the depleting groundwater

tables in the command area.

Risks Can we manage what we have rather than invest more to benefit few?

Do we want more investments while we can't manage what wehave already?

Are there really any "unutilized" waters?

•How reliable is the data on unutilized water resources?

Does the terrain offer opportunities to divert waters and use it beneficially

Social ri

sks

Political risks

Environmental risks

Suggestions

•Railway lines can be used•Must be done in phase manner•Central government should take control•Independent body•Provision in budget•Take help from international bodies.•Private sector can be called upon•Make all available studies and research on project public

Alternates

• Build check-dams to link the small ponds and nullahs. Some 600 villages of that region and the surrounding areas quietly undertook to save every drop of rainwater.

• The farmers can decide to avoid planting such crops which require substantial amounts of water. Only those crops could be sown which were resistant to a dry spell

• Rain water harvesting

Refrences

http://nrlp.iwmi.org/main/Default.asp

http://www.pdf-search-engine.com/nrlp-pdf.html

www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/.../strategic-analyses-national-river-linking-project-nrlp-india

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