First Students’ National Conference on River Basin Planning Welcome to (BRiP – 2011) Organized by Consortia of 7 IITs

GRB EMP * Main Document GRB EMP * Main Document Goals & Objectives Objectives GEN WRM FGM ENB SEC PLG GDM COM PIC EFL MIS Literature (SOA) Literature (SOA) Methodology (MTH) Methodology (MTH) Data (DAT) Data (DAT) Analysis (ANL) Analysis (ANL) Suggestions & Recommendations (S&R) Suggestions & Recommendations (S&R) nn Ver (MMM YYYY) Ver (MMM YYYY) WorkPackagesWorkPackages Areas Sewage Treatment EQP GRB EMP : Recommendations and Guidelines Nirmal Dhara Nirmal Dhara Aviral Dhara Aviral Dhara Ecological Restoration River Course Development River Course Development Water Resource Development Water Resource Development Flood prevention Sustainable Agriculture Navigation & Recreation FinancialLayoutFinancialLayout StrategyStrategy Implementation Schedule Monitoring Mechanisms 004_GBP_IIT_EQP_S&R_02_Ver 1_Dec 2010 Concept MapReport Indexing

Water Resources Management Reduce Momentum Reduce Momentum Distributed Storage Distributed Storage Ground Water Recharge and Enhance Base Flow

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Discharge Flood Year Normal Year Drought Year E-Flow, Normal Year E-Flow, Drought E-Flows Concept

Demand Management Cropping Pattern Organic Farming

Every river is clean at all times, you and I sitting on the banks of the river are dirtying it. The ‘we dirtying it’ is not stopped, but we are purifying the river. Stop dirtying and poisoning it, and the river will purify itself.

Water Quality: The Mantra:  Defecation  Ablutions  Discharge of wastewater  Throwing of used floral offerings  Rubbing of filth  Body shampooing  Frolicking  Acceptance of donations  Obscenity  Offering of inappropriate praises or even hymns in a incorrect way  Discarding of garments  Beating and  Swimming across, in particular Thirteen actions are prohibited on approaching the scared waters of the Ganga, namely:

Consortia of 7 IITs November 4-5, 2011 Students’ Conference on RBP Wastes Point Non Point Solid (non-point) Liquid Domestic Agriculture (non-point) Industrial CitiesVillages Small DrainsOpen Defecation Old New Sewage CollectionTreatment

November 4-5, 2011 Students’ Conference on RBP Consortia of 7 IITs Unpolluted Flow Unpolluted Flow Zero Discharge Zero Discharge STP Unsatisfactory Performance Unsatisfactory Performance Cynical Attitude Expensive/Unaffordable/ Energy Extensive ULBs ! 1 Paisa Per Liter 1 Paisa Per Liter

Ecosystems in Ganga Basin Structural Components Abiotic Biotic Functional Components Transport of Elements Features of biochemical Cycling Interactions Energitics Production Consumption Fluxex of C, N, P, S Mass balance Subsystems Fresh water Estuarine Wetlands Terrestrial Flowing Storages/Pondages Main Stem Gangotri To Farakka Artificial Natural Tributaries Farakka to Gangasagar Hoogly - Matlah Permanent Transient Diara Lands Riparian Cultivated Forests Grasslands / Scrublands Chemical Characteristics Chemical Characteristics Flow Sediment Load Sediment Load Habitat Nutrients Salanity Decomposables Recalcitrant Dissolve Gases Toxicants MetalsPesticides Producers Consumers Decomposers Phytobenthos Phytoplankton Macrophytes Zooplankton Macroinvertibates Vertibrates Zoobanthos Fish Higher Vertibrates Bacterial Fungus Culturable Non Culturable Aquatic Extra Aquatic

Environmental Flows + …… Environmental Flows + ……

Consortia of 7 IITs November 4-5, 2011 Students’ Conference on RBP Created Condition Restored Condition Turning point Degraded Intact Restored CreatedTrajectories of change Intact Degraded Turning Points

Consortia of 7 IITs November 4-5, 2011 Students’ Conference on RBP Flood Plains and Valley Margin River Styles Stream power

River Space River Space Permissible Activities Valley Margin and Active Flood Plain

National River ! Ganga Panchayat ?

November 4-5, 2011 Students’ Conference on RBP Consortia of 7 IITs Ganga Basin Information and Communication Network

November 4-5, 2011 Students’ Conference on RBP Consortia of 7 IITs Gangapedia Home Page

Consortia of 7 IITs November 4-5, 2011 Students’ Conference on RBP Thank You !