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The program on irrigated lands and water management development was widely presented at the Conference and its thematic sessions. The Ministry of Water Management of India is planning to build 64 dams additionally to 4700 existing large dams, meaning that 108 km3 of water will be added to existing 255 billion m3 of water By the way India will cover its water demands up to 2050 by existing water resources (including 433 km3 of the exploiting groundwater in consideration with future artificial groundwater recharge). But there will be water resources deficit in some Indian states (Radjastan, Gudjarat, Andra, Pradesh, Karpataka and Tamil Nadu). Therefore the interbasin diversions of runoff aimed to compensate water deficits and to avoid the annual and seasonal runoff/precipitation variation are planned by the state. Particularly the hydrographs and characteristics of runoff and precipitation of the Himalayan watersheds and of the peninsula were identified. There were found more than 30 dependencies between hydrographs and characteristics of runoff and precipitation. These findings can be used for planning additional water resources (up to 200 km3) during the dry seasons Rivers with the great "donor capacity" are Brahmaputra, Mahandi, Godavari and western rivers flowing from the western coastal zone. Additionally India gives more attention to develop the WUAs, which amounted already 56,000, as well to control soil salinization and waterlogging which reach 3 and 6.45 million ha accordingly. They probably can be increased up to 13 million ha.
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