5. Status of data collection in the country is widely varying. While there are
reasonably good assessments at resource availability level, matching precision
and coverage is not found at utilization level. Multiple agencies are working in
isolation leading to incompatible data sets and difficulties in national and
regional level planning.
6. There is a strong impact of new technologies especially the remote sensing
technologies on indirect data assessments, and such technologies need further
development for reliably and unbiased assessment of utilization by agriculture
and other spatially distributed consumers. Other new technologies of data
communication and telemetry for ground-based point observations also need be
promoted. Necessary capacities are required to be built in the line organizations
for consuming and managing these new facilities.
7. Bringing historical data sets with new technology-based observations is the
need of the hour to provide a continuous historical record with a common base
line. Good initiatives like India-WRIS and crop forecasting systems developed
with remote sensing techniques need be promoted.
8. Transboundary water management is highly reliant upon sound data availability. Interpretation exercises have to follow common well-established principles and practices. Production of a consistent, non-biased picture is the need
of the hour. In the absence of sound analysis, adjudication becomes difficult and
non-conclusive.
9. Even after efforts in this direction, a lot of ground needs to be covered in
bringing about comprehensive database. Establishment of such database is
constrained due to limitations imposed constitution and competitive race to
capture resource, lack of adoption of new technologies and quality assurance of
collected data.
10. Progress in equitable development will be seriously hampered if the sound data
management policies are not adopted across the board and data-driven negotiations are not established.
Acknowledgements Highly informative and in-depth interactions with Sh. M. E. Haque, Former
Member (WP), Central Water Commission have provided very useful directions and insights
which have helped greatly while preparing this paper. The insights are gratefully acknowledged.
References
Guidelines for preparation of detailed project reports of irrigation and multipurpose projects
Haque ME, Pandya AB, Husain SM, Gupta RK (2019) Focused role of the union government in
addressing the future water challenges. A discussion paper presented at India water week
https://cwc.gov.in/guidelines-and-guide-book-publications
https://cwc.gov.in/hydro-meteorological-observation
https://cwc.gov.in/reservoir-monitoring
https://cwc.gov.in/sites/default/files/dpr_guidelines.pdf
Mahalanobis National Crop Forecast Center. https://www.ncfc.gov.in/about-us.html
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reasonably good assessments at resource availability level, matching precision
and coverage is not found at utilization level. Multiple agencies are working in
isolation leading to incompatible data sets and difficulties in national and
regional level planning.
6. There is a strong impact of new technologies especially the remote sensing
technologies on indirect data assessments, and such technologies need further
development for reliably and unbiased assessment of utilization by agriculture
and other spatially distributed consumers. Other new technologies of data
communication and telemetry for ground-based point observations also need be
promoted. Necessary capacities are required to be built in the line organizations
for consuming and managing these new facilities.
7. Bringing historical data sets with new technology-based observations is the
need of the hour to provide a continuous historical record with a common base
line. Good initiatives like India-WRIS and crop forecasting systems developed
with remote sensing techniques need be promoted.
8. Transboundary water management is highly reliant upon sound data availability. Interpretation exercises have to follow common well-established principles and practices. Production of a consistent, non-biased picture is the need
of the hour. In the absence of sound analysis, adjudication becomes difficult and
non-conclusive.
9. Even after efforts in this direction, a lot of ground needs to be covered in
bringing about comprehensive database. Establishment of such database is
constrained due to limitations imposed constitution and competitive race to
capture resource, lack of adoption of new technologies and quality assurance of
collected data.
10. Progress in equitable development will be seriously hampered if the sound data
management policies are not adopted across the board and data-driven negotiations are not established.
Acknowledgements Highly informative and in-depth interactions with Sh. M. E. Haque, Former
Member (WP), Central Water Commission have provided very useful directions and insights
which have helped greatly while preparing this paper. The insights are gratefully acknowledged.
References
Guidelines for preparation of detailed project reports of irrigation and multipurpose projects
Haque ME, Pandya AB, Husain SM, Gupta RK (2019) Focused role of the union government in
addressing the future water challenges. A discussion paper presented at India water week
https://cwc.gov.in/guidelines-and-guide-book-publications
https://cwc.gov.in/hydro-meteorological-observation
https://cwc.gov.in/reservoir-monitoring
https://cwc.gov.in/sites/default/files/dpr_guidelines.pdf
Mahalanobis National Crop Forecast Center. https://www.ncfc.gov.in/about-us.html
162
A. B. Pandya