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020			_a9781441179364
082			_a333.9100954 _bA8W2
100			_aAsthana, Vandana _9322619
245			_aWater security in India: hope and despair, and the challenges of human development _cAsthana, Vandana
260			_bBloomsbury Academic _c2014 _aNew York
300			_axvii, 394 p.
504			_aTable 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
520			_aFew 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/)
650			_aWater-supply - India - Management
650			_aWater resources development - Government policy - India
700			_aShukla, A. C. _9322621
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