Data Management

Data Management



Data Management

Introduction

Water resources management plan of an area is the base for effective management of natural resources and sustainable development. The balance use of surface water and ground water will give sustainability to agricultural production of the area and the economic sustainability to farmers. The availability of water in hills is limited to springs, stream and river. However, a few handpump have also been installed in the hilly terrain to trap ground water mainly for drinking water purpose. The hilly terrain has varied topology and hydrology. Due to reduced vegetation cover and land degradation, the springs and streams have limited source of water, which reduce their discharges during summer season. Some of the springs dry up during summer. The excess surface water that flows down untapped is required to be checked and stored at surface through man made structures. The present study is a part of detailed study being carried out for assessing the ecological development of Phakot subwatershed in Tehri Garhwal district under the “Bio-geo Database & Ecological Modeling of Himalaya” Programme of Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. Water thus stored on the surface will not only be used for drinking and irrigation purposes, but will also increase ground water recharge. The main objective of the present study was to suggest a concrete water resources management plan for judicial and sustainable utilization of surface and ground water by augmentation of existing water resources in the area. This would enable improvement in drinking and irrigation water facilities of the area and ultimately economic conditions of the farmers. The use of Remote sensing technology for preparing the water resources management plan were discussed by Agarwal(2001)and Agarwal et al.(2005). The similar studies have also been done by Verma(2000) and Agarwal et.al. (2002) on 1:50,000 scales. The water resources management plan was discussed with local people and was found to be useful and acceptable by the people /farmers and officials for sustainable development of the area and the ecosystem as a whole. 

Geographic, historical and political background of Thailand

By the nineteenth century, and especially with the coming to power in 1851 of King Mongkut, who had been a monk himself for twenty-seven years, the sangha, like the kingdom, became steadily more centralized and hierarchical in nature and its links to the state more institutionalized. As a monk, Mongkut was a distinguished scholar of Pali Buddhist scripture. Moreover, at that time the immigration of numbers of Mon from Burma was introducing the more rigorous discipline characteristic of the Mon sangha. Influenced by the Mon and guided by his own understanding of the Tipitaka, Mongkut began a reform movement that later became the basis for the Dhammayuttika order of monks. Under the reform, all practices having no authority other than custom were to be abandoned, canonical regulations were to be followed not mechanically but in spirit, and acts intended to improve an individual's standing on the road to nirvana but having no social value were rejected.

Economy and Politics of Thailand

Although most of the countries affected by the financial crisis had good macroeconomic indicators, some even perfect, Thailand, ...