Copy of *The Narmada Landscape Restoration Project (NLRP

Copy of *The Narmada Landscape Restoration Project (NLRP) Narmada Landscape Restoration Project Indore and Khargone, Madhya Pradesh, India The project is demonstrating the impact of sustainable landscape practices on water quality and quantity in selected tributaries of River Narmada. [...] The riverine system, however is under extreme pressure due to reducing forest cover in the catchment, increasing surface run-off, inadequate recharge of aquifers, over extraction of water for irrigation, poor water quality due to fertilizer intensive agriculture and increasing demand to supply water to urban population like in Indore. [...] THE PROJECT OBJECTIVES CURRENT SCENARIO To develop capacities and provide incentives for sustainable Indore's demand for water from landscape management by local communities in the upland Narmada will increase by 23% in watershed (north and south bank). [...] Increasing cost to supply To create awareness of the importance of ecosystem adequate water for domestic and services and sustainable landscapes management. [...] BENEFICIARIES Surplus price for the organic products produced by the Agriculture & Forest Communities Payments to Forest and Urban Industries Municipal Agriculture Community in Communities Coorporation the river catchment for like Indore PES adoption of Sustainablepractices that ensure ECOSYSTEM SERVICES ecosystem services like PAYMENT FOR ECOSYSTEM SERVICES water Clean and adequate water for Indo.