Water Governance and Management in India

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Catalysing Groundwater Governance Through People’s Participation and Institutional Reform

   • Himanshu Kulkarni, Dhaval Joshi, Uma Aslekar, Siddharth Patil

   Pages 1-22

3. Sustainable Urban Water Management Strategies

   • Kulwant Singh, Sajib Mahanta

   Pages 23-43

4. Estimating Efficiency of Public Investment in Irrigation at the State Level in India

   • Seema Bathla, Elumalai Kannan, Gautam Kumar Das, Roopali Aggarwal

   Pages 45-68

5. Tackling Water Quality Issues

   • Indira Khurana, Romit Sen

   Pages 69-103

6. Wetlands and Water Management: Finding a Common Ground

   • Ritesh Kumar, Harsh Ganapathi, Santosh Palmate

   Pages 105-129

7. Data Usage for Development, Management of Water Resources

   • Ashwin B. Pandya

   Pages 131-163

8. Whither India’s Federal Governance for Long-Term Water Security?

   • Srinivas Chokkakula, Prakriti Prajapati

   Pages 165-185

9. Back Matter

   Pages 187-188

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This book, the second volume in the series, continues to raise contextual issues and presents perspectives regarding multifaceted challenges in management and governance of water in India. This volume attempts to broad base and expand the dialogue started in the first volume and would touch upon issues that need immediate discussion but have been left unattended like politics and management of groundwater, efficient utilization of water in agriculture (irrigation) and improving water use efficiency and building resilience. As in the first volume, this book presents a set of suggestions and recommendations in each chapter that can help frame policy guidelines in the country.

• Groundwater management
• Food security
• Irrigated agriculture
• On-farm water use
• Basin-level modelling
• Urban water challenges
• Water security
• Industrial water usage
• Sustainable water resources
• India’s water policy
• water quality and water pollution
• water policy
• Climate change management

• India Water Review, New Delhi, India

  Girish Chadha

• International Commission on Irrigation & Drainage, New Delhi, India

  Ashwin B. Pandya

Girish Chadha is a New Delhi-based business journalist-cum-entrepreneur. His engagement with water sector runs across several dimensions. He has written extensively on global water issues in leading foreign publications and is the Editor of India Water Review, a multi-media news platform on water in India. Girish also overlooks efficient water usage practice for a fast-growing global organic foods company with projects across several geographies.

Ashwin B Pandya is the Secretary-General of International Commission on Irrigation & Drainage (ICID). An M Tech in Structural Engineering from IIT-Delhi, Pandya has been a former Chairman of Central Water Commission. In his long distinguished career encompassing all aspects of water resources sector, Pandya has provided mentorship and led the large water resources engineering community towards a sustainable and rational development regime. Pandya has been engaged with several state governments, many countries and the World Bank in various capacities and is an advisor to the Indian Government on several flagship projects.

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