Watershed Manual: A Practical Guide for Watershed Development Practitioners and Trainers by B K Kakade, Fellow of Cohort 9

This manual deals with micro and macro issues, introducing a comprehensive strategy and designing the rest of the document to fulfill the expectations in the strategy. The compilation incorporates the watershed and watershed plus measures for holistic development of the community. Ecological perspective has been built into it.

Planning being a very important phase, emphasis has been given on providing tools and methods required for detailed and appropriate planning.

The following key aspects are covered in this manual:

Watershed development strategy
Watershed planning
Conservation and development of resources
Farming systems
Efficient water use
Monitoring, evaluation and maintenance

This manual is expected to serve as a ready reference material both for field practitioners and trainers. The readers and practitioners are expected to derive-a-..basket of treatment measures from this manual. Depending upon the location and site conditions, one can select a combination of measures. The tips provided on construction methodology are also bound to be very valuable.

Persons / organizations interested for this book may get in touch with the author Bharat Kakade at bharatkakade2002@yahoo.com