Water Management Priorities in a Post-COVID World

P. S. Vijayshankar ()
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P. S. Vijayshankar: Samaj Pragati Sahayog

Chapter Chapter 11 in Reimagining Prosperity, 2023, pp 189-199 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This paper maintains that the growing crisis of water scarcity cannot be addressed from within the paradigm that created the problem. The extractive paradigm which prevails views high economic growth as the main goal of development to be achieved through the increasing extraction of natural resources. Approaches to water management that are based on this paradigm view water as a resource primarily meant for human consumption. In contrast, the paper proposes an ecosystem paradigm in which water is viewed as being embedded within the ecosystem as an essential part of it to be conserved and preserved for future generations. The author identifies five areas of action for water management in the post-COVID context: move away from water-intensive agriculture through crop diversification; sustainable and community-based groundwater management; protection of river systems and wetlands; ensuring water quality and drinking water security and the creation of strong legal frameworks for water governance.

Keywords: Water scarcity; Extractive development paradigm; Ecosystem paradigm; Water stewardship; Crop diversification; Water-intensive agriculture; Drinking water security; Community-based groundwater management; Protection of rivers and wetlands (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-7177-8_11

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