River Linking Project

Presented By:
Swati tyagi
Mohit narula
Purvi goel
Gunjan kharbanda
Pooja rai
Utkarsh 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
Present Water Scenario Of India……

Internally Renewable Water Resources :- 1,260 BCM

Externally Renewable Water Resources :- 636 BCM
Total 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)
Plan of Action
A 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

•
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.
•How reliable is Risks Can we manage
the data on what we have rather
unutilized water than invest more to
resources? benefit few?

Are there
really any
"unutilized
" waters?

Do we want more
investments
Does the terrain while we can't
offer opportunities manage what we
to divert waters and have already?
use it beneficially
 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
Thank you