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1 Rangachari, R.; Verghese, B. G. 2001. Making water work to translate poverty into prosperity: the Ganga – Brahmaputra – Barak region. In Ahmad, Q. K.; Biswas, A. K.; Rangachari, R.; Sainju, M. M. (Eds.). Ganges – Brahmaputra – Meghna region: a framework for sustainable development. Dhaka, Bangladesh: The University Press Limited. pp.81-142.
Rivers ; Water management ; Socioeconomic development ; Rural development ; Population growth ; Water power ; Waterway transport ; Inland water transport ; Flooding ; Dams ; Water storage ; Treaties / South Asia / India / Nepal / Bhutan / Bangladesh / Ganga / Brahmaputra / Barak
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.9162 G570 AHM Record No: H040936)
2 Chaturvedi, M. C. 2013. Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna waters: advances in development and management. Boca Raton, FL, USA: CRC Press. 423p.
River basins ; Water resources development ; Water management ; Water availability ; Water supply ; Groundwater management ; Watersheds ; Waterway transport ; International waters ; Arsenic ; Irrigation water ; Climate change ; Flooding ; Hydrogeology ; Precipitation ; Evaporation ; Sedimentation ; Soils ; Erosion ; Land degradation ; Fauna ; Flora ; Biodiversity ; Political geography ; Development policy ; Environmental management ; Socioeconomic environment ; Agricultural development ; Water power ; International relations / India / Bangladesh / Nepal / Bhutan / Ganges River / Brahmaputra River / Meghna River / Mahakali River / Kosi River / Gandak River
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 631.7.2 G635 CHA Record No: H045900)
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3 Kamaladasa, B. 2007. Irrigation development in Sri Lanka. Centenary Commemoration Publication 1906-2006. Colombo, Sri Lanka: The Institution of Engineers. 243p.
Irrigation engineering ; Irrigation management ; Irrigation operation ; Irrigation practices ; Ancestral technology ; Infrastructure ; Technological changes ; Flood irrigation ; Flood control ; Dams ; Rivers ; Drainage ; Waterway transport ; Irrigated farming ; Diversification ; Engineering ; Construction ; Land development (urbanization) ; Development plans ; River basin development ; Cultivation ; Colonialism ; State intervention ; Rural communities ; Villages ; Economic aspects / Sri Lanka
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 627.52 G744 KAM Record No: H047933)
4 Staddon, C.; Brewis, A. 2024. Household water containers: mitigating risks for improved modular, adaptive, and decentralized (MAD) water systems. Water Security, 21:100163. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasec.2023.100163]
Water systems ; Water containers ; Water storage ; Risk ; Households ; Communities ; Infrastructure ; Waterway transport ; Musculoskeletal diseases ; Rainwater harvesting
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H052750)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468312423000317/pdfft?md5=eb26f68476482466f04a551c27e0be46&pid=1-s2.0-S2468312423000317-main.pdf
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While the literature on the design and operation of safe water sources in low-income communities is huge, little attention has been paid to the design of systems for the safe transportation and storage of water by households between source and point of use. The design of water containers like the near-ubiquitous “jerry can” in relation to how they are used and the potential risks incurred has received little attention. This is despite, as we explain, the strong influence that water container design has on hazards associated with fetching and storing water. This paper advances the argument that MAD (“modular, adaptive and decentralised”) approaches to rethinking water containers are possible and points to examples that have been trialled in different locations around the world. Placed in a broader theoretical framework, the objects that are used as water containers can even be viewed as “engines of history” through which human communities interact with the (water) environment and can create off-grid infrastructures. Key suggestions for design improvement include recognizing the role of water containers in heterogenous networks and in wider socio-technical systems that can reinforce marginalization, and the critical need for localized, community-collaborative co-production.
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