This project is Different, because ……

• Pioneering civil society initiative towards integrated river basin resource management.
• Follows a holistic perspectives - blends four thematic and other cross-thematic concerns
• Probably the only basin project which directly address ‘livelihood’ and places issues of industrialization, mining, market, resource rights and governance at equal pedestal with water and institutions
• A futuristic, proactive effort to prevent and reverse upcoming threats on water quality
• Information as investment : Use information as primary tool to address resource management and livelihood in a basin by generating and processing of information making it accessible to all stakeholders to help them make informed choices
• Inclusive and democratic process approach- taking opinions of contributing, receiving and all basin stakeholders besides enhancing community voices
• Addresses the concern of primitive tribal groups, shifting cultivation, mining, pollution, irrigation, fisheries, rainfed production on a neutral, action research perspectives