Appropriate technologies, people’s participation, effective conservation and economic feasibility are the key elements essential for the sustainable management of natural resources. The case studies show that simple and low-cost technologies are more acceptable for farmers rather than expensive and labour intensive conservation techniques.
If a project doen not generate enough benefits to off-set costs of construction and maintenance, it will clearly not become sustainable. Sustainable watershed management can become a ‘reality’ as long as the chain of sustainable watershed management remains intact.