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Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Nature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105008652682
Author : Luna Bharati,Bharat R. Sharma,Vladimir Smakhtin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781317479475
The Ganges is one of the most complex yet fascinating river systems in the world. The basin is characterized by a high degree of heterogeneity from climatic, hydrological, geomorphological, cultural, environmental and socio-economic perspectives. More than 500 million people are directly or indirectly dependent upon the Ganges River Basin, which spans China, Nepal, India and Bangladesh. While there are many books covering one aspect of the Ganges, ranging from hydrology to cultural significance, this book is unique in presenting a comprehensive inter-disciplinary overview of the key issues and challenges facing the region. Contributors from the three main riparian nations assess the status and trends of water resources, including the Himalayas, groundwater, pollution, floods, drought and climate change. They describe livelihood systems in the basin, and the social, economic, geopolitical and institutional constraints, including transboundary disputes, to achieving productive, sustainable and equitable water access. Management of the main water-use sectors and their inter-linkages are reviewed, as well as the sustainability and trade-offs in conservation of natural systems and resource development such as for hydropower or agriculture.
Author : Sumana Bandyopadhyay,Habibullah Magsi,Sucharita Sen,Tomaz Ponce Dentinho
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-29
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030352370
This book highlights various challenges and opportunities for water management and cooperation in South Asia. In light of increasing urbanization and development in the region and related pressure on water resources, the contributions investigate water conflictual and cooperative attitudes and gestures between countries and regions; analyse management trade-offs between nature, agriculture and urban uses; and examine water sustainable management and related policies. By studying major river basins in the region, such as Indus, Ganges, Brahmaputra, Narmada, Godavari and Krishna, the chapters highlight socio-economic, infrastructural, environmental and institutional aspects of water scarcity in South Asia and present best practices for improved sustainable water management and security in the region.
Author : William Young,Nagaraja Rao Harshadeep
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-07
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783036504667
Management of water resources in large rivers basins typically differs in important ways from management in smaller basins. While in smaller basins the focus of water resources management may be on project implementation, irrigation and drainage management, water use efficiency and flood operations; in larger basins, because of the greater complexity and competing interests, there is often a greater need for long-term strategic river basin planning across sectors and jurisdictions, and considering social, environmental, and economic outcomes. This puts a focus on sustainable development, including consumptive water use and non-consumptive water uses, such as inland navigation and hydropower. It also requires the consideration of hard or technical issues—data, modeling, infrastructure—as well as soft issues of governance, including legal frameworks, policies, institutions, and political economy. Rapidly evolving technologies could play a significant role in managing large basins. This Special Issue of Water traverses these hard and soft aspects of managing water resources in large river basins through a series of diverse case studies from across the globe that demonstrate recent advances in both technical and governance innovations in river basin management.
Author : David J. Eaton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Nature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105008655024
Author : Luna Bharati,Bharat R. Sharma,Vladimir Smakhtin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 1138900354
Author : Paula Hanasz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351599313
International organisations such as the World Bank began to intervene in the transboundary water governance of the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna river basin in the mid-2000s, and the South Asia Water Initiative (SAWI) is its most ambitious project in this regard. Yet neither SAWI nor other international initiatives, such as those of the Australian and UK governments, have been able to significantly improve transboundary water interaction between India, Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh. This book identifies factors that contribute to water conflicts and that detract from water cooperation in this region. It sheds light on how international organisations affect these transboundary water interactions. The book discusses how donor-led initiatives can better engage with transboundary hydropolitics to increase cooperation and decrease conflict over shared freshwater resources. It is shown that there are several challenges: addressing transboundary water issues is not a top priority for the riparian states; there is concern about India’s hydro-hegemony and China's influence; and international actors in general do not have substantial support of the local elites. However, the book suggests some ways forward for improving transboundary water interaction. These include: addressing the political context and historical grievances; building trust and reducing power asymmetry between riparian states; creating political will for cooperation; de-securitising water; taking a problemshed view; strengthening water sharing institutions; and moving beyond narratives of water scarcity and supply-side solutions.
Author : Amarasinghe, Upali A.,Muthuwatta, Lal,Smakhtin, Vladimir,Surinaidu, Lagudu,Natarajan, R.,Chinnasamy, Pennan,Kakumanu, Krishna Reddy,Prathapar, Sanmugam A.,Jain, S. K.,Ghosh, N. C.,Singh, S.,Sharma, A.,Kumar, S.,Goel, M. K.
Publisher : IWMI
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789290908425
Although the Ganges River Basin (GRB) has abundant water resources, the seasonal monsoon causes a mismatch in water supply and demand, which creates severe water-related challenges for the people living in the basin, the rapidly growing economy and the environment. Addressing these increasing challenges will depend on how people manage the basin’s groundwater resources, on which the reliance will increase further due to limited prospects for additional surface storage development. This report assesses the potential of the Ganges Water Machine (GWM), a concept proposed 40 years ago, to meet the increasing water demand through groundwater, and mitigate the impacts of floods and droughts. The GWM provides additional subsurface storage (SSS) through the accelerated use of groundwater prior to the onset of the monsoon season, and subsequent recharging of this SSS through monsoon surface runoff. It was identified that there is potential to enhance SSS through managed aquifer recharge during the monsoon season, and to use solar energy for groundwater pumping, which is financially more viable than using diesel as practiced in many areas at present. The report further explores the limitations associated with water quality issues for pumping and recharge in the GRB, and discusses other related challenges, including availability of land for recharge structures and people’s willingness to increase the cropping intensity beyond the present level.
Author : Anton Earle,Ana Elisa Cascao,Stina Hansson,Anders Jägerskog,Ashok Swain,Joakim Öjendal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136228353
Climate change has an impact on the ability of transboundary water management institutions to deliver on their respective mandates. The starting point for this book is that actors within transboundary water management institutions develop responses to the climate change debate, as distinct from the physical phenomenon of climate change. Actors respond to this debate broadly in three distinct ways – adapt, resist (as in avoiding the issue) and subvert (as in using the debate to fulfil their own agenda). The book charts approaches which have been taken over the past two decades to promote more effective water management institutions, covering issues of conflict, cooperation, power and law. A new framework for a better understanding of the interaction between transboundary water management institutional resilience and global change is developed through analysis of the way these institutions respond to the climate change debate. This framework is applied to six river case studies from Africa, Asia and the Middle East (Ganges-Brahmaputra, Jordan, Mekong, Niger, Nile, Orange-Senqu) from which learning conclusions and policy recommendations are developed.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Regional planning
ISBN : UOM:39015034273329
Author : R. Wirsing,C. Jasparro,D. Stoll
Publisher : Springer
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137292193
The authors explore the fresh water crisis of Himalayan Asia. While the region hosts some of the world's mightiest rivers, it is also home to rapidly modernizing, increasingly affluent, and demographically multiplying societies, ensuring the rapid depletion of water resources and of disputes over ownership of transboundary waters.
Author : Enamul Choudhury,Shafiqul Islam
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781783088706
‘Complexity of Transboundary Water Conflicts’ seeks to understand transboundary water issues as complex systems with contingent conditions and possibilities. To address those conditions and leverage the possibilities it introduces the concept of enabling conditions as a pragmatic way to identify and act on the emergent possibilities to resolve transboundary water issues. Based on this theoretical frame, the book applies the ideas and tools from complexity science, contingency and enabling conditions to account for events in the formulation of treaties/agreements between disputing riparian states in river basins across the world (Indus, Jordan, Nile, Ganges, Brahmaputra, Colorado, Danube, Senegal and Zayandehrud). It also includes a section with scholars’ reflections on the relevance and weakness of the theoretical framework.
Author : Manas Chatterji,Saul Arlosoroff,Gauri Guha
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351737982
This title was first published in 2002: Now that the Cold War is over, ethnic and regional conflicts are emerging over resources and the environment. The management of water, the lifeblood of any country, is becoming a vital issue. This volume offers a study of conflict management of water resources. It includes some selected papers presented at an international meeting, held at the Mahatma Gandhi Center of Conflict Prevention and Management in Ahmedabad, India. Other invited papers have also been included in the collection. Obviously it was not possible to address here all aspects of the vast field of water management. The main focus of this work is the management of water conflict and its implications for peace.
Author : M. Monirul Qader Mirza
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006-02-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402027925
This book deals with environmental effects on both sides of the border between Bangladesh and India caused by the Ganges water diversion. This issue came to my attention in early 1976 when news media in Bangladesh and overseas, began publications of articles on the unilateral withdrawal of a huge quantity of water from the Ganges River through the commissioning of the Farakka Barrage in India. I first pursued the subject professionally in 1984 while working as a contributor for Bangladesh Today, Holiday and New Nation. During the next two decades, I followed the protracted hydro-political negotiations between the riparian countries in the Ganges basin, and I traveled extensively to observe the environmental and ecological changes in Bangladesh as well as India that occurred due to the water diversion. The Ganges, one of the longest rivers of the world originates at the Gangotri glacier in the Himalayas and flows across the plains of North India. Eventually the river splits into two main branches and empties into the Bay of Bengal. The conflict of diversion and sharing of the Ganges water arose in the middle of the last century when the government of India decided to implement a barrage at Farakka to resolve a navigation problem at the Kolkata Port.
Author : Pavelic, Paul,Brindha, Karthikeyan,Amarnath, Giriraj,Eriyagama, Nishadi,Muthuwatta, Lal,Smakhtin, Vladimir,Gangopadhyay, Prasun K.,Malik, Ravinder Paul Singh,Mishra, Atmaram,Sharma, Bharat R.,Hanjra, Munir A.,Reddy, R. V.,Mishra, V. K.,Verma, C. L.,Kant, L.
Publisher : International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789290908319
The concept of ‘Underground Taming of Floods for Irrigation’ (UTFI) is introduced as an approach for co-managing floods and droughts at the river basin scale. UTFI involves strategic recharge of aquifers upstream during periods of high flow, thereby preventing local and downstream flooding, and simultaneously providing additional groundwater for irrigation during the dry season for livelihood improvement. Three key stages in moving UTFI from the concept stage to mainstream implementation are discussed. An analysis of prospects in the Ganges River Basin are revealed from the earliest stage of mapping of suitability at the watershed level through to the latest stages of identifying and setting up the first pilot trial in the Upper Ganges, where a comprehensive evaluation is under way. If UTFI can be verified then there is enormous potential to apply it to address climate change adaptation/mitigation and disaster risk reduction challenges globally.