Water security in India: hope and despair, and the challenges of human development Asthana, Vandana

By:

Asthana, Vandana

Contributor(s):

Shukla, A. C

Publication details: Bloomsbury Academic 2014 New YorkDescription: xvii, 394 pISBN:

9781441179364

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DDC classification:

333.9100954 A8W2

Summary: 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. (http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/water-security-in-india-9781441115119/)

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Table of contents:

Part I
Chapter 1: Introducing the concept: Water security
Chapter 2: Water resources of India

Part II
Chapter 3: Agriculture and irrigation development in India
Chapter 4: Industrialization, urbanization and population growth
Chapter 5: Vulnerability of climate change
Chapter 6: Policy and institutional drivers

Part III
Chapter 7: Privatization of water
Chapter 8: Intrastate water disputes
Chapter 9: Water security in India's neighborhood
Chapter 10: Water vision and shifts in management practices
Chapter 11: Water security: Hope and despair

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.

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