{"id":29813,"date":"2018-10-26T12:35:08","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T07:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=29813"},"modified":"2018-10-26T12:35:08","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T07:05:08","slug":"cooperation-can-resolve-mahanadi-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/cooperation-can-resolve-mahanadi-dispute\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooperation can resolve Mahanadi dispute\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/other-states\/cooperation-can-resolve-mahanadi-dispute\/article23651211.ece\"><b>Cooperation can resolve Mahanadi dispute\u2019<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Water Initiatives Odisha (WIO) and Mahanadi River Waterkeeper has recently organised the 2nd Odisha River Conference.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>2nd Odisha River Conference:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Around 150 people from basin communities such as farmers and fisherfolks participated in the programme along with civil society representatives, river and water experts and academicians from across the country.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An \u00a0Inter-State Cooperation Framework for the resolution of the Mahanadi river water dispute was constituted. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Issues revolving around the Mahanadi water dispute:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Competitive politics over the Mahanadi water sharing;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Both the States are treating the Mahanadi as a commodity and not a natural resource;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Odisha-centric or Chhattisgarh-centric approach to solving the issue.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>The guiding principles to solve the water disputes are as follows:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Formulation of a comprehensive understanding;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">availability of water in the basin; and<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">People\u2019s rights on the river. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Mahanadi:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mahanadi is the sixth largest river in India.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It originates from Chhattisgarh and enters the Bay of Bengal travelling 851 km, of which 357 km lies in Chhattisgarh and 494 km in Odisha.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cooperation can resolve Mahanadi dispute\u2019 Context: The Water Initiatives Odisha (WIO) and Mahanadi River Waterkeeper has recently organised the 2nd Odisha River Conference. 2nd Odisha River Conference: Around 150 people from basin communities such as farmers and fisherfolks participated in the programme along with civil society representatives, river and water experts and academicians from across&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/cooperation-can-resolve-mahanadi-dispute\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cooperation can resolve Mahanadi dispute\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}