Basin-wise live storage capacities under major & medium irrigation project in India (statistical data).

Eleventh Plan aiming to add about 78 GW of new capacity by 2012, the power sector is now the focus of a lot of action. Higher capacity unit sizes of 660 MW and 800 MW are the talk of the Indian Power Sector. This dissertation makes an effort to understand the technical and execution aspects of installing these high capacity units.

The Ratle Hydro Electric Project located on River Chenab in J&K state of India is planned to be developed as Run of the river scheme. It is located down stream of Dulhasti Project and Upstream of Baghlihar Project near the village Drabshala in Kishtwar District.

The author describes how the investment in modernization, focused on automation of large unlined, gravity fed irrigation systems has resulted in increases in efficiency of the system from about 70% to 90% in Victoria, Australia.

This paper provides an overview of the author's 20 year experience in the successful implementation in development, adaptation and application of automation technology to existing open channel irrigation system in Australia and a few other countries.

Clean and safe drinking water is a basic human need and providing it for everybody would be the greatest achievement by 2025. Out of 6 billion people on earth not more than one six lacks access to potable water. Also of the total water resources only 1% of fresh water is available for human consumption. To solve this problem, the means and ways have to be explored to reduce, reuse and recycling of water we have. Recycling of water using Solar Still is one of the popular and economic methods.

Excessive stress on water resources due to increase in population all over the globe has compelled the water managers to look for technically feasible alternatives for meeting the demand of water for various uses. Availability & treatment of water for drinking purpose is becoming scarce & expensive, as the population level has increased. Therefore, it has become imperative that every drop of wastewater is intercepted, treated and recycled.

MNRE (Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Govt of India) has sponsored a R&D project to ERDA. As part of this project, a 2 x 5 kW wind turbine is installed and integrated with water electrolyser. Complete demonstration system is expected to be ready soon. This demonstration project is undertaken to validate the feasibility of this concept.

Indian renewable energy market has come a long way from its initial era of sizable government subsidies, tax benefits, feed-in tariffs and various other support schemes being practiced since 1980s and creating localized markets for renewable energy. With the emergence of REC mechanism, a national level market platform would be available for RE generators even though they are selling electricity in their local region.

The safety of the dam is a very important aspect for safeguarding the national investment and the benefits derived by the nation out of this infrastructure. An unsafe dam poses hazard to human life and property in the downstream reaches. Hence the safety of the dam and the allied structures is very necessary for ensuring the continuance of accrual of benefits and protect the downstream area from any sort of hazards.