Format:
1 Online-Ressource (324 Seiten)
ISBN:
9781527526082
Content:
This book investigates water development in India with a special focus on its most agriculturally advanced state, Punjab, as well as the global water scenario on a more general level. It explores and highlights the use and abuse of water, especially sub-soil water, in the agricultural, industrial and domestic sectors. It also reveals the classic case of the virtual exportation of underground water from Punjab to the rest of India. In addition to analysing the fast depleting water table and emerging water insecurity, the study critically examines water governance and policy intervention. The book provides a number of important lessons for all those regions and countries that are encountering the twin issues of food and water scarcity and are grappling with the problem of sustainable development. This insightful text will be of much interest to students and researchers in the water sector and the field of sustainable development, as well as farmers, social scientists, policy makers, agricultural experts, environmentalists, and all those concerned with emerging water insecurity in the world
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- List of Appendices -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Chapter One -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Global Response to Water Scarcity -- 1.3 Sector-Wise Water Requirement -- Chapter Two -- 2.1 Water Resources in India -- 2.2 Irrigation and Flood Control in India -- 2.3 State-wise Irrigation Potential and Groundwater Resources -- 2.4 Rainfall and Weather in India -- 2.5 Rising Population and Increasing Urbanisation in India -- Chapter Three -- 3.1 Water Availability in Punjab -- 3.2 Average Annual Rainfall in Punjab -- 3.3 District-wise Water Table in Punjab -- 3.4 Extent of Ground Water Exploitation in Punjab -- Chapter Four -- 4.1 Land Use Pattern in Punjab -- 4.2 Cropping Pattern in Punjab -- 4.3 Irrigation Pattern in Punjab -- 4.4 Green Revolution and the Number of Tube-Wells -- 4.5 Increasing Consumption of Energy in Irrigation -- 4.6 Green Revolution and Increasing Tractorisation -- Chapter Five -- 5.1 Operational Holdings -- 5.2 Sources of Irrigation -- 5.3. Harvesting and Conservation of Water -- Chapter Six -- 6.1 Small-Scale Industrial Units -- 6.2 Medium and Large-Scale Industries -- Chapter Seven -- 7.1 Rural Water Usage Pattern -- 7.2 Urban Water Usage Pattern -- Chapter Eight -- 8.1 Awareness Level of Water Consumers in the Agricultural Sector -- 8.2 Awareness in the Industrial Sector -- 8.3 Domestic Sector -- Chapter Nine -- 9.1. Constitutional Status of Water in India and Some Initiatives at the National Level -- 9.2. Policy Response by Government of Punjab -- 9.3 Resource Conservation Technologies and Innovations -- 9.4 Micro-Irrigation in Punjab: The Ground Reality -- 9.5 Diversification and Free Electricity to Farm Sector -- Chapter Ten -- 10.1 Summary -- 10.2 Recommendations -- Appendices -- References
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Ghuman, Ranjit Singh Emerging Water Insecurity in India Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publisher,c2018
Language:
English
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