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Integrated water resources management provides a set of ideas to help us manage water more holistically. However, these ideas have been formalized over time in what has now become, in capitals, Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), with specific prescriptive principles whose implementatio...


Giordano, MarkShah, Tushaar[From IWRM back to integrated water resources management]From IWRM back to integrated water resources management

India’s 2.25 million ha of village tanks were for centuries loosely managed as multiple use common property resources, including for fishing by artisanal fisher-folk, the lowest in the social hierarchy. During the 1970s and after, the aquaculture productivity revolution created a vibrant new poli...


Shah, TushaarIndu, R.[Productivity and the poor?: political economy of village pond fishery in the Indo-Gangetic Basin]Productivity and the poor?: political economy of village pond fishery in the Indo-Gangetic Basin
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Gujarat state in Western India exemplifies all challenges of an agrarian economy founded on groundwater overexploitation sustained over decades by perverse energy subsidies. Major consequences are: secular decline in groundwater levels, deterioration of groundwater quality, rising energy cost of ...


Shah, Tushaar[Towards a managed aquifer recharge strategy for Gujarat, India: an economist’s dialogue with hydro-geologists]Towards a managed aquifer recharge strategy for Gujarat, India: an economist’s dialogue with hydro-geologists
Shah, TushaarMehta, YashreeKher, V.Palrecha, A.[Generating agrarian dynamism: Saurashtra’s lessons for Vidarbha]Generating agrarian dynamism: Saurashtra’s lessons for Vidarbha

Based on data from the four minor irrigation censuses conducted by the Ministry of Water Resources between 1986-87 and 2006-07, this paper points out that India's groundwater sector has slowed down since 2000-01, most markedly in eastern India. It examines the reasons for this and also looks into...


Mukherji, AditiRawat, S.Shah, Tushaar[Major insights from India's minor irrigation censuses: 1986-87 to 2006-07]Major insights from India's minor irrigation censuses: 1986-87 to 2006-07

The runaway growth in states of subsidised solar pumps, which provide quality energy at near-zero marginal cost, can pose a bigger threat of groundwater over-exploitation than free power has done so far. The best way to meet this threat is by paying farmers to "grow" solar power as a remunerative...


Shah, TushaarVerma, S.Durga, N.[Karnataka’s smart, new solar pump policy for irrigation]Karnataka’s smart, new solar pump policy for irrigation

Groundwater for agricultural purposes is of utmost importance in the Indian state of Gujarat. To augment existing agricultural water resources, the Gujarat Government invested in many large-scale and smallscale water infrastructures (WI). In order to increase water storage and groundwater recharg...


Chinnasamy, PennanMisra, GouravShah, TushaarMaheshwari, B.Prathapar, Sanmugam A.[Evaluating the effectiveness of water infrastructures for increasing groundwater recharge and agricultural production – a case study of Gujarat, India]Evaluating the effectiveness of water infrastructures for increasing groundwater recharge and agricultural production – a case study of Gujarat, India
Bhaduri, AnikAmarasinghe, Upali A.Shah, Tushaar[Groundwater irrigation expansion in India: An analysis and prognosis]Groundwater irrigation expansion in India: An analysis and prognosis

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