India's Water Futures: Emergent Ideas and Pathways

ISBN-13: 9780367732769 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 344 str.

K. J. Joy; S. Janakarajan

Opis

This book critically engages with the emerging issues in the Indian water sector. It brings together brings together well-known names in the Indian water sector to engage with critical issues, and also suggests ways forward and a new water vision.

Spis treści

Foreword 1. Introduction: India Water Futures: Emergent Ideas and Pathways 2. Water Resource Development in India: Achievements, Shortcomings and Remedial Measures 3. Managing River Basins: Re-Examining the Biophysical Basis 4. Changing Land Use, Agrarian Context and Rural Transformation: Implications for Watershed Development 5. Environmental Flows in the Indian Context: Prospects and Challenges 6. Changing Water Use Practices of the Urban Middle Class in India: Insights from Metropolitan Calcutta 7. The Centralized Approach to Wastewater Management and Implications for Sanitation Governance: An Analysis of the Intent and Practice of the National Urban Sanitation Policy in India 8. Canal Irrigation Performance and Impacts: Applying Contingency Theory to Irrigation Management in India 9. Out of Balance: Agricultural Growth and Groundwater Depletion in Two Backward States of India 10. Reducing Water for Agriculture for Improving Productivity: Adapting and Up-scaling Innovative Approaches 11. Gender and Water: Why We Need Alternatives to Alternative Discourses 12. Inter-state Water Conflicts and Linguistic Identity in India: The Case of the Cauvery 13. Dams and Environmental Clearances: Learnings and Way Forward 14. Rationale for Independent Regulatory Agency for Water in India: Reconceptualizing Credible Commitment 15. Reforming India’s Water Sector: Which Way Forward?

O autorze

K. J. Joy is Senior Fellow with Society for Promoting Participative Ecosystem Management (SOPPECOM), Pune, India, and is the Convener of Forum for Policy Dialogue on Water Conflicts in India.

S. Janakarajan is a professorial consultant at Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, India and is the President of South Asia Consortium for Interdisciplinary Water Resources Studies, Hyderabad, India.