Meeting India’s future water needs: policy options

Upali A. Amarasinghe, Tushaar Shah and Peter G. McCornick

No 245352, IWMI Conference Proceedings from International Water Management Institute

Abstract: This paper discusses emerging water crisis in India with the business as usual water use patterns and ways of averting it. Increasing reliance on groundwater has been contributing to pockets of unsustainable water use in many basins. This trend is likely to continue and many river basins will face severe regional water crisis in the next half century. However, proper understanding of the negative impacts of downstream water users, artificial recharge of groundwater could facilitate sustainable water use. Increasing water use efficiency, reducing uncontrolable pumping, increasing water productivity and crop diversification could help in mitigating the groundwater related water crisis. Growth in industrial, services and domestic sectors, water demand in the future shall outpace additional irrigation. This, coupled with increasing desire for a clean and reliable water supply in these sectors, and increasing focuses on environmental water needs shall demand large intra-or inter-basin water transfers

Keywords: Agribusiness; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Crop Production/Industries; Industrial Organization; International Development; Livestock Production/Industries; Marketing; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: pp.796-808
Date: 2008
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/245352/files/H041893.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:iwmicp:245352

DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.245352

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in IWMI Conference Proceedings from International Water Management Institute Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by AgEcon Search ().