Item Summary

“About the Report: India is facing an unprecedented stress on her water resources arising from changing pattern of Indian monsoon, declining per capita availability and changing sectoral allocation of water demand. The most challenging situation for the policymakers to tackle is, however, shrinking of per capita availability and also the water resources per se, in India. The available resources are shrinking quantitatively due to infrastructure inadequacies and exploitative extractions and weak policies, regulations and insufficient funds; and qualitatively due to widespread pollution, contamination and decay of rivers, water bodies, wetlands and groundwater resources. The gap is widening at all the three levels- gap between availability and utilization of the resources, gap between potential created and utilized, and gap between demand and supply of the resources." "In this background, this report, in two parts, addresses main challenges in agricultural water through ground water and canal water- covering almost 87 percent of India's net irrigated area. The cost of ground water and canal water (creation and utilization) has been computed and time and cost-over runs of selected canal irrigation projects evaluated in this report. It also highlights fast depleting groundwater resources in certain regions of India." "Possible policy measures suggested in the report with hope of assisting policymakers to implement proper management practices in order to make the irrigation water sector more efficient and sustainable."

Descriptive Information

Title
Getting more from less: story of India’s shrinking water resources
Sort Title
getting more from less: story of india’s shrinking water resources
Creator of work
Gulati, Ashok
Contributor
Sharma, Bharat
Banerjee, Pritha
Mohan, Gayathri
Publisher
New Delhi : Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER)
Mumbai : National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NBARD)
Language
English
Date Created
2019
Format
Reports
Provenance
Open-access link provided by the Library of Congress Office, New Delhi, India
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated

Discovery Information

Subject
Agrarian and rural issues
Agricultural Research Institute
Agricultural development projects
Environment and ecology
Water resources
Water use
Geographic Subject
India
Geographic Origin
India

Physical Characteristics

Page Count
170
File Count
170

Institutional Information

Collection
Born Digital Monographic Reports and Papers
Box number
Monographic Reports and Papers (Publicly Accessible)
Folder number
2d8c1e5b-025b-4c9c-a4ed-31f750f9c91f
Barcode
2d8c1e5b-025b-4c9c-a4ed-31f750f9c91f
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