Hello everyone. This is Sitaram Sharnangat from India. I am in the conservation sector for last 33 years mostly working in watershed development, Terrestrial and Freshwater ecosystem protection and restoration. I have completed PhD in Rural Development from Tata Institute of Social Sciences , India. I also completed Master of Social Work, Bachelor of Journalism and Diploma in Civil Engineering.
I worked mostly in India so far, where the concept of NBS is comparatively new. People mostly know and believe grey infrastructure like water harvesting structure. people think big dam stores flood water temporary and reduces flood risk. So challenges starts from top level leadership where political decisions are to be taken to incorporate NBS for flood risk mitigation.
Because of the impact of climate change, the rainfall patterns are changing and become very unpredictable in India, river basins are very large with variable rainfall, mixed geology with 92% hard rock, mixed land use and fragmented land ownership.
Presence of invasive species, and lack of coordination between different stakeholders like water resource, Ground water survey and authority, Agriculture, Forest, and Panchayat Raj department of government , Partner, Research institute is truly difficult. It become difficult to design technically sound NBS in such situation which may be accepted by respective stakeholders. Everyone have their own technical criteria.