4-Water Conservation Through Inter Basin Transfers.

Abstract

Inter basin transfers imply large investment, technological challanges trade off between various objectives, political concensus, mechanism of equitable distribution of costs and benefits and a host of other issues. Some proposals made for interlinking of rivers and transfer of water from one basins to other have been discussed in this paper. Major considerations of an interbasin transfer & design criteria to be adopted have also been foccused.