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
With a rapidly expanding economy many changes are taking place in India today. The business-as-usual (BAU) scenario, which assumes the continuation of current trends of key water demand drivers, will meet the future food demand. However, it leads to a severe regional water crisis by 2050, where m...
Amarasinghe, Upali A.
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Shah, Tushaar
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Turral, Hugh
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Anand, B.K.
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[India?s water future to 2025-2050: business-as-usual scenario and deviations]
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India?s water future to 2025-2050: business-as-usual scenario and deviations
Increasing income and urbanization are triggering a rapid change in food consumption patterns in India. This report assesses India's changing food consumption patterns and their implications on future food and water demand. According to the projections made in this study, the total calorie supply...
Amarasinghe, Upali A.
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Shah, Tushaar
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Singh, Om Prakash
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[Changing consumption patterns: implications on food and water demand in India]
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Changing consumption patterns: implications on food and water demand in India
Although the Ganges River Basin (GRB) has abundant water resources, the seasonal monsoon causes a mismatch in water supply and demand, which creates severe water-related challenges for the people living in the basin, the rapidly growing economy and the environment. Addressing these increasing cha...
Amarasinghe, Upali A.
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Muthuwatta, Lal P.
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Smakhtin, Vladimir U.
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Surinaidu, Lagudu
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Natarajan, R.
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Chinnasamy, Pennan
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Kakumanu, Krishna Reddy
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Prathapar, Sanmugam A.
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Jain, S.K.
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Ghosh, N.C.
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Singh, S.
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Sharma, A.
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Jain, S.K.
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Kumar, S.
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Goel, M.K.
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[Reviving the Ganges water machine: potential and challenges to meet increasing water demand in the Ganges River Basin]
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Reviving the Ganges water machine: potential and challenges to meet increasing water demand in the Ganges River Basin
Report submitted to Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) under the project, "Comparative assessment of water usage and impacts arising from biofuel projects in SOUTHEAST ASIAn Countries?, commissioned by the Letter of Agreement No LOA/RAP/2009/38. Thailand and Malaysia are two SOUTHEAST ASIAn ...
Amarasinghe, Upali A.
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Eriyagama, Nishadi
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Soda, Wannipa
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[Growing biofuel demand in Thailand and Malaysia: water use and impacts. Project report submitted to Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) under the project, "Comparative assessment of water usage and impacts arising from biofuel projects in SOUTHEAST ASIAn Countries?]
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Growing biofuel demand in Thailand and Malaysia: water use and impacts. Project report submitted to Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) under the project, "Comparative assessment of water usage and impacts arising from biofuel projects in SOUTHEAST ASIAn Countries?
Sri Lanka is a country with vast spatial and seasonal variations of water supply and demand. Statistics in the form of aggregated information at national level sometimes mask issues of local water scarcity. But when the same indicators are used at subunit level, a substantial area of the country ...
Amarasinghe, Upali A.
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Mutuwatte, L.P.
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Sakthivadivel, Ramaswamy
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[Water scarcity variations within a country: a case study of Sri Lanka]
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Water scarcity variations within a country: a case study of Sri Lanka
Assesses the impact of rehabilitation interventions on irrigation system performance using time series analysis. The study demonstrates that with proper impact specification and model identification, the nature and magnitude of the impacts of different interventions can be separated from the effe...
Amarasinghe, Upali A.
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Sakthivadivel, Ramaswamy
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Murray-Rust, Hammond
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[Impact assessment of rehabilitation intervention in the Gal Oya Left Bank [Sri Lanka].]
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Impact assessment of rehabilitation intervention in the Gal Oya Left Bank [Sri Lanka].
This report presents the results of subnational poverty estimation using aggregate poverty statistics and how they can help policy interventions. In particular, they estimate the poverty map across the DS division level in Sri Lanka. The poverty map depicts the proportion of households below the ...
Amarasinghe, Upali A.
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Samad, Madar
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Anputhas, Markandu
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[Locating the poor: spatially disaggregated poverty maps for Sri Lanka]
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Locating the poor: spatially disaggregated poverty maps for Sri Lanka
A project report submitted to Nestle Ltd. under the project "Measuring the water footprints of milk production: contributions to livelihood benefits and sustainable water use in the Moga District in Punjab, India.? This report assesses the water footprints of milk and crop production, their impac...
Amarasinghe, Upali A.
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Smakhtin, Vladimir U.
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Sharma, Bharat R.
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Eriyagama, Nishadi
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[Water footprints of milk production: a case study in the Moga District of Punjab, India. Project report submitted to Nestle Ltd. under the project "Measuring the water footprints of milk production: contributions to livelihood benefits and sustainable water use in the Moga District in Punjab, India?]
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Water footprints of milk production: a case study in the Moga District of Punjab, India. Project report submitted to Nestle Ltd. under the project "Measuring the water footprints of milk production: contributions to livelihood benefits and sustainable water use in the Moga District in Punjab, India?