Forum for Policy Dialogue on Water Conflicts (Forum) in India, organized three training workshops on understanding and resolving water conflicts. These training workshops were aimed at introducing participants to the basic concepts, debates, theoretical and analytical approaches and emerging issues related to water conflicts and their resolution in India.
 
First workshop was held in collaboration with the Chalakudy Puzha Samrakshan Samiti and Kerala State Resource Centre of the Forum, from 5 to 8 April 2010 in Ernakulum, Kerala. Second workshop was held from18-22 July 2011 at Satapada (Chilika lake), in Odisha in collaboration with the Odisha State Centre of the Forum. The third workshop was organised for participants from the North East India, in collaboration with Aaranyak (Guwahati); Centre for the Environment, IIT (Guwahati); Arghyam (Bangalore); SaciWATERs-CapNet Network (SCaN) and Cap-Net, from 23-26 January 2012.
 
As part of the methodology used in these workshops, the participants were requested to prepare a short case study on any water conflicts they know. Forum provided a format for the case study. These case studies were used for group work and/or for individual presentations during the training programmes. The authors were also provided individual feedback. In the light of all these, most of the authors revised the case studies.  Most of the participants were either young researchers (including M. Phil and Ph. D. scholars) or activists.
Here we are sharing these case studies with the readers and they include:
 

1. Wetlands of Noyyal river basin by M. Gunasekaran and S. Bharathidasan

2. Water Supply Project from Narmada river: A Private Industrial Water Supply Project in Dewas (MP) by Gaurav Dwivedi

3. Parching the Chambal River Basin: Unrelenting irrigation schemes wring the unique Chambal dry by Tarun Nair

4. Erosion in Rohmoria: Emerging Conflicts and Related Issues by Juli Borgohain

5. Estuarine and Marine Ecology: People’s response to threats from proposed elevated expressway and waste dumping by Siddharth Sareen

5. Tungabhadra Sub Basin: Conflicts due to competing water demands affecting fishing communities by S. Manasi

7. Plachimada against Coke: People’s Struggle for Water by Ruchi Shree 

 
These are the unedited versions of the case studies. The opinions expressed in these case studies are of the authors.
In case you have any comments or suggestions do get back to us and/or to the respective authors.
 
K. J. Joy/Suhas Paranjape/Shruti Vispute
Email: waterconflictforum@gmail.com