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Clean and Sustainable Groundwater in India

Author : Dipankar Saha
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811045526
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Clean and Sustainable Groundwater in India written by Dipankar Saha and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book embodies the groundwater issues and challenges in India focusing its sustainable use. It is a compilation of papers presented by the eminent experts from Government departments, academia, research institutes, NGOs and stakeholders who assembled at Kurukshetra on 21st August, 2015 in the event of Bhujal Manthan or “Churning of Groundwater” organized for the first time by Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, the apex Ministry of Water Resource under Government of India. India, as a country, is the highest groundwater extractor in the world. Its service towards attaining the food and clean drinking water security is well documented. This volume addresses the issues of aquifer characterization, groundwater contamination, groundwater resource availability and its sustainable management through community participation in pan-India scenario. This book provides a unique opportunity for its readers to understand groundwater domain in India in its entire gamut. The papers included in the volume were selected carefully from the presentations made in the following four broad topics during the Manthan; (i) groundwater quality, (ii) conjunctive use of surface and groundwater, (iii) management intervention and sustainable use of this resource, and (iv) groundwater problems and application of various techniques. The book contains 20 papers including an introductory chapter by the editors. The content of the book is enriched by contributions from eminent researchers and activists in groundwater domain, like Prof. Tushar Shah, Prof. Himanshu Kulkarni, Dr. D. K. Chadha, Dr. Bharat Sharma and others. The recommendations in the individual papers are of immense significance for keeping the groundwater of the country clean and sustainable. The volume will help the readers to understand the groundwater issues of the country and also assist policy makers to prepare strategies for its better governance and management with environmentally sustainable ways.

Natural Water Treatment Systems for Safe and Sustainable Water Supply in the Indian Context: Saph Pani

Author : Thomas Wintgens
Publisher : IWA Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780408382
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Natural Water Treatment Systems for Safe and Sustainable Water Supply in the Indian Context: Saph Pani written by Thomas Wintgens and published by IWA Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natural Water Treatment Systems for Safe and Sustainable Water Supply in the Indian Context is based on the work from the Saph Pani project (Hindi word meaning potable water). The book aims to study and improve natural water treatment systems, such as River Bank Filtration (RBF), Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR), and wetlands in India, building local and European expertise in this field. The project aims to enhance water resources and water supply, particularly in water stressed urban and peri urban areas in different parts of the Indian sub-continent. This project is co-funded by the European Union under the Seventh Framework (FP7) scheme of small or medium scale focused research projects for specific cooperation actions (SICA) dedicated to international cooperation partner countries. Natural Water Treatment Systems for Safe and Sustainable Water Supply in the Indian Context provides: an introduction to the concepts of natural water treatment systems (MAR, RBF, wetlands) at national and international level knowledge of the basics of MAR, RBF and wetlands, methods and hydrogeological characterisation an insight into case studies in India and abroad. This book is a useful resource for teaching at Post Graduate level, for research and professional reference.

Water Security in India

Author : Vandana Asthana
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1441118225
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Water Security in India written by Vandana Asthana and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few people actively engaged in India's water sector would deny that the Indian subcontinent faces serious problems in the sustainable use and management of water resources. Water resources in India have been subjected to tremendous pressures from increasing population, urbanization, industrialization, and modern agricultural methods. The inadequate access to clean drinking water, increase in water related disasters such as floods and droughts, vulnerability to climate change and competition for the resource amongst different sectors and the region poses immense pressures for sustainability of water systems and humanity. Water Security in India addresses these issues head on, analyzing the challenges that contemporary India faces if it is to create a water-secure world, and providing a hopeful, though guarded, road-map to a future in which India's life-giving and life-sustaining fresh water resources are safe, clean, plentiful, and available to all, secured for the people in a peaceful and ecologically sustainable manner.

Participatory management and sustainable use of groundwater

Author : Reddy, V. R.
Publisher : International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
ISBN 13 : 9290909285
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (99 download)

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Book Synopsis Participatory management and sustainable use of groundwater by : Reddy, V. R.

Download or read book Participatory management and sustainable use of groundwater written by Reddy, V. R. and published by International Water Management Institute (IWMI). This book was released on 2021-12-20 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Groundwater Resources Development and Planning in the Semi-Arid Region

Author : Chaitanya B. Pande
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030681246
Total Pages : 571 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Groundwater Resources Development and Planning in the Semi-Arid Region written by Chaitanya B. Pande and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-05-27 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the various challenges in achieving sustainable groundwater development, management, and planning in semi-arid regions, with a focus on India, and discusses advanced remote sensing and GIS techniques for the estimation and management of groundwater resources. The book is timely as there is a need for a better understanding of the various tools and methods required to efficiently and sustainably meet the growing demand for clean surface and groundwater in developing countries, and how these tools can be combined with other strategies in a multi-disciplinary fashion to achieve this goal in water-scarce regions. To wit, the book combines remote sensing and GIS techniques, runoff modeling, aquifer mapping, land use and land cover analyses, evapotranspiration estimation, crop coefficients, and water policy approaches. This will be of use to academics, policymakers, social scientists, and professionals involved in the various aspects of sustainable groundwater development, planning, and management.

Water Governance and Management in India

Author : Girish Chadha
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811614725
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Water Governance and Management in India written by Girish Chadha and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, the second volume in the series, continues to raise contextual issues and presents perspectives regarding multifaceted challenges in management and governance of water in India. This volume attempts to broad base and expand the dialogue started in the first volume and would touch upon issues that need immediate discussion but have been left unattended like politics and management of groundwater, efficient utilization of water in agriculture (irrigation) and improving water use efficiency and building resilience. As in the first volume, this book presents a set of suggestions and recommendations in each chapter that can help frame policy guidelines in the country.

Groundwater for Sustainable Livelihoods and Equitable Growth

Author : Viviana Re
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000539199
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Groundwater for Sustainable Livelihoods and Equitable Growth written by Viviana Re and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2022-03-28 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Groundwater for Sustainable Livelihoods and Equitable Growth explores how groundwater, often invisibly, improves peoples’ lives and livelihoods. This unique collection of 19 studies captures experiences of groundwater making a difference in 16 countries in Africa, South America and Asia. Such studies are rarely documented and this book provides a rich new collection of interdisciplinary analysis. The book is published in colour and includes many original diagrams and photographs. Spring water, wells or boreholes have provided safe drinking water and reliable water for irrigation or industry for millennia. However, the hidden nature of groundwater often means that it’s important role both historically and in the present is overlooked. This collection helps fill this knowledge gap, providing a diverse set of new studies encompassing different perspectives and geographies. Different interdisciplinary methodologies are described that can help understand linkages between groundwater, livelihoods and growth, and how these links can be threatened by over-use, contamination, and ignorance. Written for a worldwide audience of practitioners, academics and students with backgrounds in geology, engineering or environmental sciences; Groundwater for Sustainable Livelihoods and Equitable Growth is essential reading for those involved in groundwater and international development.

Bow Ties in Process Safety and Environmental Management

Author : Anjani Ravi Kiran Gollakota
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000518019
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Book Synopsis Bow Ties in Process Safety and Environmental Management by : Anjani Ravi Kiran Gollakota

Download or read book Bow Ties in Process Safety and Environmental Management written by Anjani Ravi Kiran Gollakota and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bow Ties in Process Safety and Environmental Management: Current Trends and Future Perspectives aims to combine the process safety aspects and the potential dangers to the ecology including the source of the contamination, and especially, the unbalanced utilization of toxic chemicals in process industries. It also covers a broad spectrum of industrial process safety, environmental pollution factors, dangers to land, water, air and living species, remediation technologies (traditional and futuristic approaches), pollutant degradation through numerical modelling, and physicochemical characteristics of the chemicals and their thermal analysis. It also provides the mandated safety data sheets already available and suggestions for the improvement of industrial specifications. Discusses detailed aspects of process safety and environmental impact from a theoretical and practical perspective Covers detailed procedures of environmental modeling concepts Explores forensic investigation sequences during the incident Proposes futuristic approaches towards risk assessment and management Includes real-time case studies with complexities and solutions This book is written for researchers, graduate students, and professionals involved in chemical engineering, environmental engineering, and process safety engineering.

Groundwater Management

Author : Meenu Bhatnagar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788131427200
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Groundwater Management written by Meenu Bhatnagar and published by . This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CONTENTS: Ground Water Management: Need for Sustainable Approach; Democratic Decentralization in India and the Management of Groundwater - An Interstate Analysis: 1980 - 2000; Groundwater Ethics for its Sustainability; Water Law and Rights in India; Dry Troubles and Wet Solutions: Success Story of Ralegan Siddhi's Watershed Development Project; Sustainable Ground Water Management: Concept and Strategies; Groundwater Development, Use and Management in India: Issues and Options; A Decision Support Tool with Variable Agro - Climate Scenarios for Sustainable Groundwater Management in Semi-Arid Hard-Rock Areas; Comprehensive Assessment of Consequences and Options for Agricultural Groundwater Use; Conservation of Groundwater through Drip Irrigation; Conjunctive Use of Surface and Groundwater Resources in India: Past and Future; Control and Preservation of Ground Water Quality; Kerala's Plachimada Struggle: A Narrative on Water and Governance Rights; Salinity Prevention and Mitigation Initiative: Agriculture and Water Resource Development in Salinity Ingress Affected Coastal Areas; Groundwater Management in Andhra Pradesh: Policies and Implementation; Urbanization Effects on Ground Water Status of Delhi, India; 'Out of Sight, Out of Mind': Absence of Groundwater in Water Allocation of Narmada Basin; Inter-Linking of Water Bodies Through Link Water Channels: Experiences of Innovative Water Harvesting Measures form Saurashtra, Gujarat, India.

Sustainable Development in India

Author : Koichi Fujita
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000177432
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Sustainable Development in India written by Koichi Fujita and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-23 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores and interrogates the food–water–energy nexus, arguably the most crucial factor in sustaining India’s economic development. The book sheds light on different experiences faced in states across India, including the consequences of electricity tariff reforms and related policies on irrigated agriculture. Part 1 focuses on the historical development of agriculture and social change in India, with special reference to the mode of responses and adaptations in social systems against the inherent low and erratic rainfall and resulting water stress in India during the pre-colonial period. Additionally, it investigates how colonial development destroyed social systems and discusses future development prospects. Part 2 discusses contemporary issues of agriculture and social change in India. A comprehensive examination of various important issues related to South Asian agricultural development in the past and in the present, this book will be a valuable reference for researchers of Asian development, sustainable development, environmental policy, South Asian Studies and Development Studies. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Advancement of GI-Science and Sustainable Agriculture

Author : Jayanta Das
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031368258
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (313 download)

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Download or read book Advancement of GI-Science and Sustainable Agriculture written by Jayanta Das and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-10-29 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the contributing aspects of contemporary developments related to sustainable agricultural resources and assessment of sustainable agriculture in developing nations. The issues like food crisis and declining agro-productivity, post-pandemic food security, zonation and mapping technique viewing food crisis, biotechnology and sustainable agricultural, scaling hunger indices, health hazard and food crisis, changing climate and food availability, consumer load and fertilizer usage, growing demand and increasing usage of harmful chemical in agro-fields are regarded as serious concerns. Thereafter, the scope of sustainable agricultural potentiality (SAP) modeling, amidst the arena of deforestation and encroachment of new cultivable land, impact of pandemic on sustainable agriculture, using wastewater as non-sustainable agricultural practice, applying geospatial techniques on extreme weather susceptibility and agro-production, soil erosion and poor agricultural production, questioning shifting cultivation on the issue of sustainability, meteorological drought and irrigational gaps, occupational mobility and loss of agricultural heritage, farm-excreta burning and air quality index (AQI), GI-Science and sustainable agro-management, community preparedness in food crisis management, multi-criteria hunger index (MCHI), climate change declining sustainable agro-production are worth some. Almost the entire world has recently suffered from several natural and human-induced problems, among which food crisis and unsustainable agriculture throw significant challenges to human society. Contrastingly, if modern technology and means, with advanced monitoring and calibration methodology and policy guidance, can help, it will undoubtedly reduce half of the world's problems and ensure the future survival of human society. In addition, this approach also can minimize the other partially linked problems, like climate change and food shortage, livelihood crisis, environmental refugees, international trade balance, global food supply chain interruption, the ever-expanding gap between rich and poor, and so on. Therefore, properly nurturing the knowledge on the application of GI-Science for an agriculturally sustainable society and their monitoring and management can curtail the gap between science, policy, and the ground-level scenario concerned.

Global Groundwater

Author : Abhijit Mukherjee
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0128181737
Total Pages : 679 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (281 download)

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Download or read book Global Groundwater written by Abhijit Mukherjee and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2020-11-08 with total page 679 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global Groundwater: Source, Scarcity, Sustainability, Security, and Solutions presents a compilation of compelling insights into groundwater scenarios within all groundwater-stressed regions across the world. Thematic sub-sections include groundwater studies on sources, scarcity, sustainability, security, and solutions. The chapters in these sub-sections provide unique knowledge on groundwater for scientists, planners, and policymakers, and are written by leading global experts and researchers. Global Groundwater: Source, Scarcity, Sustainability, Security, and Solutions provides a unique, unparalleled opportunity to integrate the knowledge on groundwater, ranging from availability to pollution, nation-level groundwater management to transboundary aquifer governance, and global-scale review to local-scale case-studies. Provides interdisciplinary content that bridges the knowledge from groundwater sources to solutions and sustainability, from science to policy, from technology to clean water and food Includes global and regional reviews and case studies, building a bridge between broad reviews of groundwater-related issues by domain experts as well as detailed case studies by researchers Identifies pathways for transforming knowledge to policy and governance of groundwater security and sustainability

Indian Water Policy at the Crossroads: Resources, Technology and Reforms

Author : Vishal Narain
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319251848
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (192 download)

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Book Synopsis Indian Water Policy at the Crossroads: Resources, Technology and Reforms by : Vishal Narain

Download or read book Indian Water Policy at the Crossroads: Resources, Technology and Reforms written by Vishal Narain and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reviews and analyzes emerging challenges in water policy, governance and institutions in India. Recent times have seen the contours of water policy shaped by new discourses and narratives; there has been a pluralization of the state and a changing balance of power among the actors who influence the formulation of water policy. Discourses on gender mainstreaming and Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) are influential, though they have often remained rhetorical and difficult to put into practice. Debate over property rights reform and inter-linking of rivers has been polarized. At the same time, there has been a rising disenchantment with policy initiatives in participatory irrigation management, cleaning up of water bodies and pollution control. Fast depletion of groundwater resources and the importance of adopting new irrigation methods are getting increased focus in the recent policy dialogue. The contributors review current debate on these and other subjects shaping the governance of water resources, and take stock of new policy developments. The book examines the experience of policy implementation, and shows where important weaknesses still lie. The authors present a roadmap for the future, and discuss the potential of alternative approaches for tackling emerging challenges. A case is made for greater emphasis on a discursive analysis of water policy, to examine underlying policy processes. The contributors observe that the ongoing democratization of water governance, coupled with the multiplication of stresses on water, will create a more visible demand for platforms for negotiation, conflict resolution and dialogue across different categories of users and uses. Finally, the authors propose that future research should challenge implicit biases in water resources planning and address imbalances in the allocation of water from the perspectives of both equity and sustainability.

Ground Water Development - Issues and Sustainable Solutions

Author : S. P. Sinha Ray
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811317712
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Ground Water Development - Issues and Sustainable Solutions written by S. P. Sinha Ray and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ground water resources are receiving global attention, as human population growth and development cause significant changes to the earth system. It plays a major role in ensuring livelihood security in many parts of South Asia and its contribution to poverty alleviation is substantial. The complex nature of ground water problems in the Indian Sub-continent requires a precise delineation of the ground water regimes in different hydro geological settings and socio-economic conditions and is a primary necessity for sustainable and equitable management. Strategies to respond to ground water over-exploitation and deteriorating water quality must be based on a new approach. Practical policies and various solution options urgently need to be formulated and implemented to prevent the development problems. There is pressing need to evolve workable methods and approaches based on modern scientific researches on ground water resources, as well as to build a social framework including community participation at all levels for a ground water development system. The community participation in water pumping policies, incentives of efficient use, affordability of low income users and other vulnerable groups, water awareness are prime factors for success of any ground water based water supply project.

India’s Water Futures

Author : K. J. Joy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0429752253
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book India’s Water Futures written by K. J. Joy and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it comes to water, we flush and forget. We use, abuse and almost never recycle. Water sector in India, since the 1990s, has seen some new ideas formalised legally and institutionally, while others are still emerging and evolving. Confronting the reality of current water management strategies, this volume discusses the state of the Indian water sector to uncover solutions that can address the imminent water crises. This book: Analyses the growing water insecurity, increase in demand, inefficiency in water use, and growing inequalities in accessing clean water; Sheds light on water footprint in agricultural, industrial and urban use, pressures on river basin management, depleting groundwater resources, patterns of droughts and floods, watershed based development and waste water and sanitation management; Examines water conflicts, lack of participatory governance mechanisms, and suggests an alternative framework for water regulation and conflict transformation; Highlights the relationship between gender discourse and water governance; Presents an alternative agenda for water sector reforms. This volume, with hopes for a more water secure future, will interest scholars and researchers of development studies, environment studies, public policy, political studies, political sociology, and, NGOs, media and think tanks working in this area.

Groundwater Law and Management in India

Author : Sarfaraz Ahmed Khan
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811626170
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Groundwater Law and Management in India written by Sarfaraz Ahmed Khan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-07-23 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the existing nature of India’s groundwater laws. In the backdrop of the gravity of groundwater crisis that threatens to engulf the country, the book examines the correlation between the imperfections in the law and water crisis and advocates a reform agenda to overhaul the legal framework. It accomplishes this objective by examining how some of the States and Union Territories regulate and manage groundwater through the legal instrumentality against the backdrop of the two conflicting paradigms: the “elitist” and the “egalitarian.” The book’s fundamental premise is that despite being an extraordinarily critical resource that supports India’s burgeoning population’s ever-increasing water demands, groundwater is abused and mismanaged. The key argument that it posits is that the elitist paradigm must give way to an egalitarian one where groundwater is treated as a common property resource. To place this message in perspective, the book’s introduction explains the dichotomy between the two paradigms in the context of groundwater. This sets the stage, after which the book is divided thematically into three parts. The first part deals with some of the general groundwater management concerns brought to the fore by the operation of the elitist paradigm. Since water is constitutionally a State subject, the second part analyses the groundwater legislations of different States and Union Territories set against their unique circumstances. As these laws do not dismantle the elitist paradigm that interlocks groundwater rights to land rights, the next part articulates the legal reform agenda where a case is made to re-engineer groundwater laws to reflect a more sustainable basis. The findings and arguments resonate with the situation in many developing countries around the world due to which the book is a valuable resource for researchers across disciplines studying this area, and also for policy makers, think tanks, and NGOs. Groundwater Management–Inter-state Water Conflicts–Aquifers–Water Markets–Water Security–Water Law Reform–Groundwater Law–Water Law–Sustainable Development–Hydrology

Water Security in India

Author : Vandana Asthana
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1441115110
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Water Security in India written by Vandana Asthana and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few people actively engaged in India's water sector would deny that the Indian subcontinent faces serious problems in the sustainable use and management of water resources. Water resources in India have been subjected to tremendous pressures from increasing population, urbanization, industrialization, and modern agricultural methods. The inadequate access to clean drinking water, increase in water related disasters such as floods and droughts, vulnerability to climate change and competition for the resource amongst different sectors and the region poses immense pressures for sustainability of water systems and humanity. Water Security in India addresses these issues head on, analyzing the challenges that contemporary India faces if it is to create a water-secure world, and providing a hopeful, though guarded, road-map to a future in which India's life-giving and life-sustaining fresh water resources are safe, clean, plentiful, and available to all, secured for the people in a peaceful and ecologically sustainable manner.