Format:
1 Online-Ressource
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maps
Edition:
Also published in print
ISBN:
1350130826
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9781350130852
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9781350130821
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9781350130838
Content:
"This important new study investigates the competing demand for water in the Bhavani and Noyyal River basins of south India from the early 19th century to the early 21st century from a historical perspective. In doing so, the book addresses several important questions: * Did policy-makers visualise the future demand while diverting water from distant places or other basins? * Was efficient use ensured when the water was diverted or was it diverted in a manner that resulted in pollution and serious damage to the entire river basin? * Were natural flows taken care of in order to preserve the ecology and environment? * What were the factors that aggravated the competing demand for water and what were the consequences for the future? In the context of the current discourse on the competing demands for water, this book takes the debate forward, expanding the horizon of environmental history in the process. Until now, agriculture, industry and domestic water supply and their consequences for ecology, the environment and livelihoods have been given scant attention. Velayutham Saravanan's comprehensive account of both the colonial and post-colonial periods corrects this shortcoming in the field's literature and gives a holistic understanding of the problem and its full historical roots."--
Content:
List of Maps -- List of Tables -- List of Appendices -- Author Note -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Acronyms Measurements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Hydrology, Commercialization and Ecology -- 3. Population, Urbanization, Industrialization and Demand for Water -- 4. Water Supply Schemes and Conflict -- 5. Canal Irrigation, Technology and Conflict -- 6. Disasters of Linking Rivers -- 7. Conclusion -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Also published in print.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 1
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 1
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Saravanan, Velayutham Water and the environmental history of modern India London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020 ISBN 9781350130821
Language:
English
Keywords:
Indien
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Wasserversorgung
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Geschichte 1800-2044
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Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9781350130852
