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India has a surface and ground water irrigation potential of nearly 100 million hectares, which has made it a country with the largest irrigated area in the world. This book deals with the policy and governance issues in relation to management as well as development of water resources in India. It makes a critical review of the state of the art concerning most of the important aspects of the water sector and comes forward with practical suggestions to improve the system further. The perspective of this book is mainly social, economic and institutional and not technological.
While the focus of the book is on India, the issues discussed and their implications are relevant to a greater part of the world, specially the developing world. The book would be useful for researchers, administrators, policy-makers and those interested in water resources in India and elsewhere.
Contents
List of Tables
List of Abbreviations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Section I: Overall Perspectives
1. The Paradox of Water: Important Yet Neglected
2. Contemporary Water Scenario in India
3. Tardy Implementation of Reforms
Section II: Situational Analysis
4. Availability and Requirement of Water in India
5. Institutional Set-up and Development of Irrigation
6. Problems of Canal Irrigation Management
7. Drinking Water Scenario: Adequacy, Pricing and Quality
8. Policy and Governance Issues in Hydropower Development
9. Flood-prone Areas and Policies for their Development
Section III: Socio-economic, Institutional and Environmental Aspects
10. Towards Participatory Irrigation Management for Canals
11. Community Participation in Flood Management
12. Institutional Framework for Resolution Inter-state Water Disputes
13. Planning, Investigation and Database
14. Investment Criteria for Water Resource Projects
15. Financial Crunch and the Quest for Private Sector Investment
16. Pricing: The Most Neglected Aspect
17. Environmental Concerns and Policy Response
18. Resettlement and Development of Project-affected Persons
19. Groundwater Governance
20. Reforming the Legal Framework
Section IV: Technological Options
21. The Controversy about Dams and the Way Out
22. Inter-basin Transfer of Water
23. Watershed Development and Rain-water Harvesting
Section V: Concluding Observations
24. Challenges and Future Approach
References
Index
ISBN - 9789382993698
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Pages : 460
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