Water Management Institute to get $4 m for research

The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) Challenge Programme has accepted two project proposals of the Anand-based International Water Management Institute(IWMI).

The proposals entail funding of around $2 million for each project.

The project on 'Strategic analysis of India's National River-Linking Project' aims to impart substance and quality to the national discourse on the National River-Linking Project and help the nation think through its long-term water challenge and evolve a strategy to face it, a release said.

The other project, 'Groundwater governance in Asia' is to develop and implement a research-based training programme to develop a well-rounded, inter-disciplinary world-view among groundwater managers, the release said.

The IWMI was launched in 2000 to conduct research on water resource management.

The funding body is a CGIAR-led international consortium, the release said.

The CGIAR Challenge Programme invited concept notes internationally from national and international academic and research institutions in December 2002.