Due to the worsening of climate con-ditions, increasing rainfall intensities during heavy precipitation events within the few monsoon months are predicted in the North West of India (Punjab). Therefore, the erosion risk of large areas rises intensively. New planning instruments are required to allow a reproducible assessment and prediction of soil erosion risks on catchment scale.

The project “Planning of decentralized erosion prevention for selected rain water retention measures in Punjab, India under the aspect of the adjustment to climate change” was developed between the partners GIZ and IPROconsult GmbH and is cofinanced by the GIZ GmbH and IPROconsult GmbH.

The project has a model character and is aimed at:

The outcome of this project will be focused on the methodological feasi-bility of a process-orientated calcula-tion of erosion and deposits based on heavy rain (storm water) events.

IPROconsult and PAU (Punjab Agricul-tural University) are interested to im-prove the planning solution for future rainwater storage or erosion preven-tion, helping local communities to establish a self-determined irrigation management through knowledge transfer to local farmers and water associations.

To guarantee the transferability of the working instrument to climatic comparable regions in Punjab, PAU and IPROconsult will develop a standardized and reproducible process for the determination of the erosion hazard classification as well as corresponding concrete protection measures with focus on rainwater retention and transport infrastructure protection. Recommendations for the transferability as well as concrete user guidelines (manual) will be prepared. This implies among others reprodu-cible quality requirements to the data itself (quality management of the database).