• Narayan Chopra

Massive economic and industrial development across the world is depleting access to water resources for the poorer and marginalized communities. While available water resources are increasingly put to sever stress due to over exploitation, the communities whose livelihood depends on water resources are being threatened by the lack of access to water. Public participation in watershed planning has expanded greatly during the last three decades, largely in response to the participation movement which has taken place since the 1960s. Natural Resource mobilisation along watershed lines involving the local community so that they own and identify themselves with the efforts indicates the direction towards sustainable and equitable development. These have been the learnings from successful participatory watershed development projects since the micro-watershed is not only a naturally occurring spatial and ecological unit but also the sustenance base of the community living within it. With the aforementioned aim the present study has been undertaken to highlight the community efforts towards Water Resource Management, in the Arwari Watershed of Alwar District, Rajasthan.

Public Participation, Community Participation, Sustainable Development, Natural Resource Management, Water Resource Management, Watershed Management

"Some Tangibles of Public Participation In Water Resource Management ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.1, Issue 7, page no.390-397, December-2014, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1701749.pdf

"Some Tangibles of Public Participation In Water Resource Management ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.1, Issue 7, page no. pp390-397, December-2014, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1701749.pdf