TY - BOOK AU - Chakravarty, Kalyan Kumar AU - Badam, G. L. AU - Paranjpye, Vijay TI - Traditional Water Mangament System of India SN - 9788173053153 U1 - 627.0954 PY - 2007/// CY - Aryan Books International PB - New Delhi KW - Irrigation, Water-supply, Management, Hydraulic engineering, Antiquities, History, Water-supply engineering, Irrigation engineering, Appropriate technology, Reservoirs N1 - The book is based on seminar proceedings on Traditional Water Management Systems organised by the Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya, Bhopal and held in four components, at Bhopal, Ahmedabad, Pune and Bhandara. Apart from presenting history of water management in India from ancient to contemporary times, this book brings out managerial, legal and financial problems which stand in the way of recycling of local water harvesting structures. Simple techniques of conserving water, farmer managed irrigation systems, law and policy of water management, study of tanks, recharging of springs, and Chalcolitic irrigation in Pune Distt. are some of the topics dealt with in detail ER -