Runoff generated in the monsoon months in the upstream parts of the Ganges River basin (GRB) contributes substantially to downstream floods, while water shortages in the dry months affect agricultural production in the basin. This paper examines the potential for subsurface storage (SSS) in the G...
Muthuwatta, Lal P.
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Amarasinghe, Upali A.
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Sood, Aditya
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Lagudu, S.
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[Reviving the “Ganges Water Machine”: where and how much?]
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Reviving the “Ganges Water Machine”: where and how much?
Responding to rainfall variability has always been one of the most critical risks facing farmers. It is also an integral part of the job of water managers, whether it be designing interventions for flood management, improving the reliability of water supply for irrigation or advising on prioritie...
Bird, Jeremy
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Roy, Srabani
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Shah, Tushaar
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Aggarwal, Pramod K.
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Smakhtin, Vladimir U.
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Amarnath, Giriraj
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Amarasinghe, Upali A.
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Pavelic, Paul
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McCornick, Peter G.
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[Adapting to climate variability and change in India]
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Adapting to climate variability and change in India
Sharma, Bharat R.
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Amarasinghe, Upali A.
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[Unleashing the agricultural potential of eastern India: understanding the constraints to forge a new paradigm]
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Unleashing the agricultural potential of eastern India: understanding the constraints to forge a new paradigm
Amarasinghe, Upali A.
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Shah, Tushaar
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Anand, B.K.
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[India?s water supply and demand from 2025-2050: business-as-usual scenario and issues]
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India?s water supply and demand from 2025-2050: business-as-usual scenario and issues
Sharma, Bharat R.
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Amarasinghe, Upali A.
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[Strategic analyses of India?s National River Linking Project: providing analytical rigor to ?options? and ?assertions?]
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Strategic analyses of India?s National River Linking Project: providing analytical rigor to ?options? and ?assertions?
Kumar, D.
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Amarasinghe, Upali A.
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[Water productivity improvements in Indian agriculture: Potentials constraints and prospects]
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Water productivity improvements in Indian agriculture: Potentials constraints and prospects
Kumar, M. Dinesh
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Amarasinghe, Upali A.
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[Strategic Analyses of the National River Linking Project (NRLP) of India, Series 4. Water productivity improvements in Indian agriculture: potentials, constraints and prospects]
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Strategic Analyses of the National River Linking Project (NRLP) of India, Series 4. Water productivity improvements in Indian agriculture: potentials, constraints and prospects
For decades, increasing land productivity was a major driver of improving food security and reducing rural poverty. However, with increasing water scarcities, competing water demand across different sectors, and increasing cost of investments in water resources development require a paradigm shif...
Amarasinghe, Upali A.
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Sharma, Bharat R.
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[Water productivity and poverty in the transboundary river basin of India and Bangladesh: a situation analysis. Project report submitted to IUCN under the project "Water Productivity, Poverty and Food Security?.]
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Water productivity and poverty in the transboundary river basin of India and Bangladesh: a situation analysis. Project report submitted to IUCN under the project "Water Productivity, Poverty and Food Security?.
India is a large country with regional differences in per-capita water supply and demand. Attempts to describe the water situation in India at a national level are often misleading due to the tremendous diversity in the water situation across the country. This Report analyzes the spatial variatio...
Amarasinghe, Upali A.
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Sharma, Bharat R.
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Aloysius, Noel
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Scott, Christopher A.
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Smakhtin, Vladimir U.
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Fraiture, Charlotte de
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[Spatial variation in water supply and demand across river basins of India]
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Spatial variation in water supply and demand across river basins of India
This research study shows that ‘business-as-usual’ scenarios will have substantial production surpluses of rice, which dominates water use patterns in the country at present. However, the surpluses come at a considerable environmental cost, due to high levels of groundwater depletion. Bangladesh ...
Amarasinghe, Upali A.
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Sharma, Bharat R.
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Muthuwatta, Lal P.
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Khan, Z.H.
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[Water for food in Bangladesh: outlook to 2030]
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Water for food in Bangladesh: outlook to 2030