Edited by Himanshu Kulkarni, Uma Badarayani and Devdutt Upasani of Advanced Center for Water resources Development and Management (ACWADAM), Pune, this report is a compilation of papers from the groundwater conference held by ACWADAM in May, 2009. This initiative was supported by Arghyam.Contents: The titles include

• India’s groundwater irrigation economy: the Challenge of Balancing Livelihoods and Environmnet - Tushaar Shah
• Groundwater management in India: from typology to protocols and community-driven pilots - Himanshu Kulkarni, Uma Badarayani, Harshvardhan Dhawan, Devdutt Upasani,  Rakesh Gupta
• Hydrogeology in watershed planning: A Practitioners view - P.S. Vijay Shankar
• Groundwater quality in India: Distribution, Social burden and Mitigation Experiences - Sunderrajan Krishnan
• From Survey to Sustainability - Groundwater Experiences of Maharashtra - Vikas Kharage
• Synthesizing informal and formal science towards water resource management Case studies from Kachchh - Yogesh Jadeja
• Groundwater regulation – need for further reforms - Philippe Cullet
• Megh Pyne Abhiyan: Facilitating in evolving water issues in North Bihar - Eklavya Prasad
• Empowering farming communities to collectively manage their Groundwater resources - Ravi Kanth Ganti
• Rainwater Harvesting and Groundwater recharge in Urban centres : Experiences from the field - Avinash Krishnamurthy, Nathan Stell, Shubha Ramachandran, Sunil M S, Karan Singh
• The importance of groundwater in urban India - S.Vishwanath

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