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1 Rogers, P.; Hurst, C.; Harshadeep, N.. 1993. Water resources planning in a strategic context: Linking the water sector to the national economy. Water Resources Research, 29(7):1895-1906.
Water resources development ; Strategy planning ; Economic aspects ; Development policy ; Case studies / Bangladesh
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: PER Record No: H013337)
2 Bhatia, R.; Briscoe, J.; Malik, R. P. S.; Miller, L.; Misra, S.; Palanisami, K.; Harshadeep, N.. 2006. Water in the economy of Tamil Nadu, India: more flexible water allocation policies offer a possible way out of water-induced economic stagnation and will be good for the environment and the poor. Water Policy, 8(1):1-13.
Water allocation ; Water scarcity ; Water shortage ; Water policy ; Models ; Optimization ; Economic aspects ; Poverty / India / Tamil Nadu / Chennai
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: PER Record No: H038212)
3 Jeuland, M.; Harshadeep, N.; Escurra, J.; Blackmore, D.; Sadoff, C. 2013. Implications of climate change for water resources development in the Ganges basin. Water Policy, 15(S1):26-50. [doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wp.2013.107]
Water resources development ; Climate change ; Economic aspects ; Optimization ; Hydrological cycle ; Simulation models ; Precipitation ; Tributaries ; Water power ; Water storage ; Water availability ; Water use ; Dams ; Dry season ; Irrigation water ; Temperature / South Asia / India / Bangladesh / Nepal / Ganges Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048105)
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This paper presents the first basin-wide assessment of the potential impact of climate change on the hydrology and production of the Ganges system, undertaken as part of the World Bank's Ganges Strategic Basin Assessment. A series of modeling efforts – downscaling of climate projections, water balance calculations, hydrological simulation and economic optimization – inform the assessment. We find that projections of precipitation across the basin, obtained from 16 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change-recognized General Circulation Models are highly variable, and lead to considerable differences in predictions of mean flows in the main stem of the Ganges and its tributaries. Despite uncertainties in predicted future flows, they are not, however, outside the range of natural variability in this basin, except perhaps at the tributary or sub-catchment levels. We also find that the hydropower potential associated with a set of 23 large dams in Nepal remains high across climate models, largely because annual flow in the tributary rivers greatly exceeds the storage capacities of these projects even in dry scenarios. The additional storage and smoothing of flows provided by these infrastructures translates into enhanced water availability in the dry season, but the relative value of this water for the purposes of irrigation in the Gangetic plain, and for low flow augmentation to Bangladesh under climate change, is unclear.
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