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WHIRL
is a collaborative Indo-South Africa-UK project. Through research
and promoting more effective integration and coordination between
watershed development and rural water supply projects, it aims
to promote better institutional and operational solutions for
water resources management. This will
ultimately improve the
access of poor people to safe water supplies for domestic (both
drinking and productive) uses. In India, the research includes
fieldwork in Anantapur and other states in Andhra Pradesh, in
partnership with APRLP. Work here is focused on achieving better
local water management to ensure the sustainability of water
supplies, in particular on how to manage and mitigate the impacts
of groundwater over-exploitation for irrigation on access to
domestic water.
Based
upon action research in South Africa and India, the project
will, by 2004, develop, validate and disseminate demand-led
guidelines to promote appropriate integration of water supply
and sanitation within watershed development programmes.
Further
details about the project can be found on the project web-site
at http://www.nri.org/WSS-IWRM/
Papers
and reports available on the site include the report of a workshop
on ‘Water Supply & Sanitation and Watershed Development:
positive and negative interactions’ held in Karnataka and Andhra
Pradesh in May 2001.
The WHIRL Project
Coordinator is Dr. John Butterworth at the Natural Resources
Institute: j.a.butterworth@gre.ac.uk
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