CHANSE

A research project to improve water management in the Indo-Gangetic Plain. Led by @ImperialCiveng and IIT Bombay, funded by @NERCscience and MoES India.

[CHANSE @ChanseIGP]

Third annual meeting of the team in Bangalore, and a lot of exciting work planned for the last year of the project

[B Ó Dochartaigh @beodoch]

Flooded area includes a huge part of the Gandak catchment in Bihar where we're working with @ChanseIGP. Thinking of everyone affected there https://t.co/E20z3Z6zVr

[Jimmy O'Keeffe @Jimmy_OKeeffe]

BBCs @BBCJustinR in our @ChanseIGP study area showing what an hour of rain does to Indian streets https://t.co/MJvlh8UWXA

[Jimmy O'Keeffe @Jimmy_OKeeffe]

Tarune from @atree_org and our driver Niraj hard at work checking out a dried up minor canal in the Gandak Basin, Bihar

[Jimmy O'Keeffe @Jimmy_OKeeffe]

Our first @ChanseIGP #groundwater level sensors are in! Here being dropped down well by very happy farmer. Looking frwrd to lots of data!

[Jimmy O'Keeffe @Jimmy_OKeeffe]

Bikes and groundwater abstraction pumps, two of my favorite things & great way to move pumps between diff wells. Thankfully no hills here

[CHANSE @ChanseIGP]

Water - energy links in India #wfe_nexus https://t.co/RF3hFb4BYk

[India Water Portal @indiawater]

Water scarcity behind decline in #thermal power generation in India https://t.co/YhgNyl68xS @PiyushGoyal @makarandpurohit

[ATREE @atree_org]

@Live_Hindustan writes about @ChanseIGP-a collaborative project on water management in the #Ganga basin sponsored by @moesgoi n @NERCscience

[Jimmy O'Keeffe @Jimmy_OKeeffe]

For the next 3 weeks Ill be talking to farmers in North India about water for @ChanseIGP. If there's something you'd like to ask let me know

[Veena Srinivasan @veenas_water]

IPCC Scholarship Award for PhD students from a developing country. 15,000 euros per yr, up to two years for 2017-19 https://t.co/uXefKJ5qNc

[CHANSE @ChanseIGP]

@beodoch beautiful collection. Looking forward to the analysis results!

[B Ó Dochartaigh @beodoch]

All the water samples collected in the Gandak catchment last week during #fieldwork for @ChanseIGP #India

[CHANSE @ChanseIGP]

Huge congrats to Nachiket, and well deserved award. We are very happy and proud to have you in the team! https://t.co/R5jozZBcEE

[ATREE @atree_org]

Congratulations to our PhD student-Nachiket Kelkar for being awarded The New India Foundation Fellowship,2017. #NIF https://t.co/a1dUp1aSrk

[Dragan Savic @H2ODraganSavic]

#India is facing its worst #water #crisis in generations #watersecurity @ChanseIGP
https://t.co/j40J0k66V9

[B Ó Dochartaigh @beodoch]

Most irrigation boreholes we saw in the Gandak basin last week were hand-drilled & powered by diesel suction pumps #groundwater #India

[B Ó Dochartaigh @beodoch]

Machine-drilled #irrigation #boreholes are rare in Gandak basin: eg this govt-owned, 150m deep one with permanent distribution system #India

[B Ó Dochartaigh @beodoch]

Major crops in the Gandak basin are maize, wheat & sugarcane; also vegetables, fruit & rice. All are dependent on #irrigation

[B Ó Dochartaigh @beodoch]

Rural parts of the Gandak basin rely on #groundwater. Almost every house has a hand-drilled, usually <20m deep #borehole with a #handpump

[B Ó Dochartaigh @beodoch]

Hand-drilling a #borehole into the alluvial #aquifer in Bihar #India: bamboo frame/lever; 2" iron casing; drilled 15m in 10 hrs #groundwater

[B Ó Dochartaigh @beodoch]

Here's @Jimmy_OKeeffe interviewing farmers in the Gandak catchment about their #farming practices & how they use water for #irrigation