“SPRINGS” COMPONENT UNDER WLE
SPRINGS, AQUIFERS AND SPRINGSHEDS…PARTICIPATION & WUMP
Advanced Center for Water Resources
DevelopmentTypology
and Management
and scale
•
Capacity building, training and
education
•
Action Research
•
PGWM: a nuanced approach to
aquifer-based and communitycentric groundwater management
•
Customisation
•
Dissemination & Advocacy
Spring-scapes…
Himalayan region
Western Ghats
Eastern Ghats
Background
A typical Western ghat setting
A typical Himalayan setting
Springs: supply & demand
Spring discharge
depletiion
Supply
and demand…SPRINGS
Springs:
managing supply
Catchment
treatment
Springs: managing demand
Spring discharge
depletion
Controlled
demand
Springs: managing supply and demand
Catchment
treatment
Controlled
demand
Source
Users and uses
share a common
resource even
through different
types of
sources…wells are
obvious but springs
not necessarily so!
Access
Access in many
areas is through
“common”
sources…
Distribution
Distribution is
usually about
connecting to a
source and
supplying to an
increasing
demand…
The project
The Springs component - WLE
Groundwater, springs and the mountains
Sparse data on
groundwater in
general and springs
in particular…
The Springs component - WLE
Partners
ICIMOD,
ACWADAM,
HELVETAS and local
partners in India and
Nepal
The Springs component - WLE
Locations
-Sindhupalchowk district,
Nepal
The Springs component - WLE
Locations
- Dailekh district,
Nepal
The Springs component - WLE
Locations
- Nainital district,
Uttarakhand, India
The Springs component - WLE
The goal
- The goal of this
project is ensure
affordable and
sustainable
access to
drinking water
for people in the
mid hills of
Nepal and
Uttarakhand in
India
The Springs component - WLE
The approach
- Monitoring springs
- Spring Hydrogeology
-Training , capacity
building and knowledge
dissemination: partners
and community
- Springwater
management protocols
- Implementation
The Springs component - WLE
The outcomes
- Spring atlas of 3040 springs
-Recharge impacts
on 8-10 springs
- Women actively
engage in
sustainable spring
water management,
including decision
making
- Mainstreaming
‘spring
hydrogeology’
Wider implications
Springs and the dimension of sanitation…
Springs: the dimension of continua…
Typology of spring hydrographs
160
140
Broad typology
represents diversity in
aquifers, catchment
conditions, size and
distance of recharge
zones etc.
Discharge in volume per time
120
100
80
60
40
20
0
Apr/15
May/15
Jul/15
Sep/15
Oct/15
Dec/15
Time
Jan/16
Mar/16
May/16
Jun/16
www.acwadam.org
acwadam.vsnl.net