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Managing Water: a Crucial Resource for Development: a Case Study of India.
The paper analyses the availability, demand and uses of water and also deliberates over issues related to water policy and management of this crucial resource in a sustainable way. India is the focus of this research. Insights gained from water management policies of the United States are examined f...
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MAN AND DEVELOPMENT
2007
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| 100 | |a Harbans Singh |9 49231 | ||
| 245 | |a Managing Water: a Crucial Resource for Development: a Case Study of India. | ||
| 260 | |c 2007 |a MAN AND DEVELOPMENT | ||
| 300 | |b Volume 29, No.3 September 2007 | ||
| 520 | |a The paper analyses the availability, demand and uses of water and also deliberates over issues related to water policy and management of this crucial resource in a sustainable way. India is the focus of this research. Insights gained from water management policies of the United States are examined for their applicability to the Indian context. The role of the ecological principles and climatic factors that have a bearing on the quantity and quality of water is also assessed. The analysis shows that there is an acute and persistent shortage of water in all the major Indian metropolitan centres as raw water for treatment is in short supply. The critical question facing the policymakers, especially the politicians, is the transfer of water from irrigation to meet urban demand without raising the ire of the farmers who form the majority in the countryside. India, with its tropical monsoon climate and only three to four months as the rainy season, has to store water in sufficient quantity to provide for the prolonged dry period of the year. An aversion to dams has become a textbook case for water management. Water pricing, water conservation in irrigation, small reservoirs and other soft options are, of course, integral to a water management policy. The function of dams has to be evaluated in the context of geography and climate. Large reservoirs created by high dams are also needed to meet the growing water demand of the metropolitan economy and mega-cities of the 21st century. | ||
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