Indias Water Futures: Emergent Ideas and Pathways [Hardcover]

Foreword 1. Introduction: India Water Futures: Emergent Ideas and Pathways 2. Water Resource Development in India: Achievements, Shortcomings and Remedial Measures 3. Managing River Basins: Re-Examining the Biophysical Basis 4. Changing Land Use, Agrarian Context and Rural Transformation: Implications for Watershed Development 5. Environmental Flows in the Indian Context: Prospects and Challenges 6. Changing Water Use Practices of the Urban Middle Class in India: Insights from Metropolitan Calcutta 7. The Centralized Approach to Wastewater Management and Implications for Sanitation Governance: An Analysis of the Intent and Practice of the National Urban Sanitation Policy in India 8. Canal Irrigation Performance and Impacts: Applying Contingency Theory to Irrigation Management in India 9. Out of Balance: Agricultural Growth and Groundwater Depletion in Two Backward States of India 10. Reducing Water for Agriculture for Improving Productivity: Adapting and Up-scaling Innovative Approaches 11. Gender and Water: Why We Need Alternatives to Alternative Discourses 12. Inter-state Water Conflicts and Linguistic Identity in India: The Case of the Cauvery 13. Dams and Environmental Clearances: Learnings and Way Forward 14. Rationale for Independent Regulatory Agency for Water in India: Reconceptualizing Credible Commitment 15. Reforming Indias Water Sector: Which Way Forward?

When it comes to water, we flush and forget. We use, abuse and almost never recycle.

Water sector in India, since the 1990s, has seen some new ideas formalised legally and institutionally, while others are still emerging and evolving. Confronting l“-