Water Management : Multiple Dimensions
Contents: Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction: water management: multiple dimensions/Rakesh Hooja, Ramesh K. Arora and K.K. Parnami. 2. Long-term water demand projections for India and possible policy responses: a note/Yoginder K. Alagh. 3. Water savings and conservation in irrigated agriculture/S.A. Kulkarni. 4. Managing water in rural areas: an institutional and multi-use perspective/Rakesh Hooja. 5. Water management: an environmental perspective/Brij Gopal. 6. Community water management/G.S. Narwani. 7. Community participation in integrated Water Resource Management Policy Framework/M.V.S. Prasad. 8. Water scenario in Rajasthan: policy potential and problems/A.S. Kapoor. 9. Training for participatory irrigation management in India/Rakesh Hooja. 10. Community managed drinking water systems in the Himalayas: an NGO Perspective/Kalyan Paul. 11. Watershed approach: a viable proposition for water management in rainfed areas/C. Sekar and S. Senthilnathan. 12. Watershed management in India: brief comment on an ICRISAT/IWMI Report/Rakshat Hooja. 13. Managing water supply in the 21 century metropolis: lessons from Delhi/Rakshat Hooja and Rakesh Hooja. 14. Water resources and interlinking of rivers: issues concerning inequalities, state intervention and sustainable development/D.K. Verma and A. Sohrot. 15. Interlinking of rivers: prospects and problems/Raj Kumar Siwach. 16. Water visions and strategies at global and All India Levels: some personal reflections/Rakesh Hooja. 17. Challenges and priorities for water and sanitation sector reforms for urban areas/K.K. Gadeock. Contributors.
"For many years now it has been recognized that water management and development is going to be an increasingly complex and sensitive task in the 21 century involving various facets and dimensions with more and more regions facing situations of water stress or water scarcity and problems not only of availability of fresh water, but also of its quality. Thus, the importance of the effective management of water cannot be overemphasized. It is in this backdrop that the present volume gives a panoramic view of the various dimensions of the water management in India. Certain critical and crucial issues pertaining to water in the Indian context as discussed by scholars, researchers, policy makers and implementors have been put together in this volume in articles which touch upon water demand projections, canal irrigation and participatory irrigation management, use of water from tanks and of groundwater watershed development, rainwater harvesting, land-water management, rural drinking water, domestic use of water supply in cities, integrated water resource management, managing water in rural areas, community water management, community-based organizations and water users groups, role of NGOs, interlinking of rivers, environmental uses of water, water conservation, federal issues in water resources use, the water scenario in an Indian state, training and capacity building for the water sector, and water issues and strategies at global and All-India levels.
Besides, water use has been discussed in all its facets and dimensions: sociological, economic, institutional, administrative, cultural, managerial, behavioural, participatory, technical, environmental, developmental, policy-oriented, grassroots--implementational etc.
The book will be of immense help to scholars, researchers, analysts, commentators, academicians, policy makers and implementors." (jacket)
