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1 Mukherji, A.; Shah, T. 2005. Socio-ecology of groundwater irrigation in South Asia: an overview of issues and evidence. In Sahuquillo, A.; Capilla, J.; Martinez-Cortina, L.; Sanchez-Vila, X. (Eds.). Groundwater intensive use: selected papers, SINEX, Valencia, Spain, 10-14 December 2002. Lieden, Netherlands: A.A. Balkema. pp.53-77. (IAH Selected Papers on Hydrogeology 7)
Groundwater irrigation ; Tube wells ; Economic aspects ; Environmental effects ; Private ownership ; Water lifting ; Water distribution ; Crop yield ; Water market ; Policy / South Asia
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 631.7.6.3 G000 SAH Record No: H031125)
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2 Mukherji, A.; Verma, S.; Rath, P. 2003. Agrarian transformation among tribals: from migrants to farmer irrigators. IWMI-Tata Water Policy Research Highlight, 8/2003. 5p.
Farmers attitudes ; Tribal peoples ; Irrigated farming ; Cropping systems ; Rainfed farming ; Migrant labor ; Wage rates / India / Gujarat
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.3 G635 MUK Record No: H031802)
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Research highlight based on a paper titled Impact of participatory irrigation management on tribals in South Gujarat
3 Mukherji, A.; Kishore, A. 2003. Tubewell transfer in Gujarat: a study of the GWRDC approach. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). vi, 34p. (IWMI Research Report 069) [doi: https://doi.org/10.3910/2009.022]
Tube wells ; Privatization ; Groundwater management ; Economic aspects ; Operations ; Maintenance ; Equity ; Farmers? attitudes ; Farmer-led irrigation ; Policy / India / Gujarat
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.3 G635 MUK Record No: H032952)
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In India public (government) tubewells were built with the intention of providing irrigation to all categories of farmers in a fair, equitable and affordable manner. However, most public tubewell programs across India have failed on all these counts. Efforts to transfer their management to water users too have met with little success. Nonetheless, the Gujarat Water Resources Development Corporation (GWRDC)-a state-owned public company-has achieved rare success in tubewell transfer by handing over management of around 60 percent of public tubewells in the Gujarat state to user groups. This study tries to identify the factors that helped in accelerating the transfer process and evaluate the performance of transferred tubewells against those owned by individuals and GWRDC. It also suggests some policy changes that can make the scheme function better and explores the replicability of the success achieved in Gujarat.
4 Mukherji, A.; Verma, S.; Rath, P. 2002. Canal irrigation management by tribal communities: case study of AKRSP(I) supported PIM societies [including IWMI-TATA Water Policy Programme] in South Gujarat. Ahmedabad, India: Aga Khan Rural Support Programme (India). 42p. (AKRSP-1 Research Studies)
Irrigation canals ; Irrigation management ; Participatory management ; Farmer participation ; Irrigated farming ; Cropping systems ; Crop yield ; Wage rates ; Migrant labor ; Water distribution ; Water rates ; Economic impact ; Maintenance ; Non-governmental organizations / India / South Gujarat
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.3 G635 MUK Record No: H033198)
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AB Provision of irrigation has been thought to be crucial in improving the livelihoods of millions of tribals in Central belt of India, who are locked in perpetual poverty. Green Revolution Technology, which has been at the heart of India’s agricultural development, has more or less bypassed the tribal population. For one, irrigation infrastructure is inadequate in the tribal regions and again when irrigation infrastructure is made available, the tribals do not seem to make adequate use of them. Creating demand for irrigation among the tribal farmers seems to be most important challenge. It is in this backdrop that we undertook our case study in a tribal dominated block of Gujarat. Unlike the other tribal dominated areas Jharkhand and Chattisgarh), the tribals in our study area were third generation farmers and therefore they faced no cognitive barriers in adopting irrigated agriculture. They are also as skilled a farmer as any other, which is reflected by the fact that there are no discernable yield differences between a tribal and a non-tribal farmer. We studied four canal irrigation schemes, which have been all turned over to the farmers at the behest of AKRSP (I)’s intervention. All these four schemes are tribal dominated, some of them are completely so, others have a handful of non-tribal population. The schemes we studied were Pingot RBMC, Baldeva LBMC, Pingot LBMC and Issar Minor Irrigation scheme. Our results confirm that irrigated agriculture has brought about tremendous benefits to a tribal farmer in the form of yield increases, higher cropping intensity, lower out migration and higher wage rates within the village. The trajectory of change for a typical tribal farming has been from cultivating local paddy in Kharif and migrating in Rabi and summer to cultivating hybrid paddy in kharif and irrigated groundnut or moong in summer. Irrigated agriculture has become central to their livelihoods and this in part explains why Participatory Irrigation Management (PIM) has been more or less successful here. However, the non-tribal farmers have benefited more from PIM than tribal farmers, because they shifted to very lucrative sugarcane farming. The non-tribals (Patels) have also played a significant role in these irrigation co-operatives in that they have provided the much needed “demonstration effect” of profitability of irrigated agriculture. AKRSP (I)’s role as facilitator of PIM in Pingot RBMC and Baldeva LBMC has been acclaimed nationally. But we propose that the success of these two schemes lies in the creation of Pingot LBMC society, where tribal farmers came forward on their own and formed irrigation society to take over management of the canal system. The very fact that an all-tribal farmer group could successfully replicate PIM experiment in Gujarat that was started with Pingot RBMC and Baldeva LBMC is a proof enough for the success of PIM as a whole. We also propose that in the long term, the sustainability of PIM will depend on the overall profitability of irrigated agriculture and therefore efforts should be made to make farming a more profitable venture for the tribal farmers. Encouraging them to shift to highly lucrative crops such as sugarcane and orchard crops could perhaps make irrigated agriculture more profitable in future.
5 Mukherji, A.; Shah, Tushaar. 2005. Groundwater socio-ecology and governance: a review of institutions and policies in selected countries. Hydrogeology Journal, 13(1):328-345.
Groundwater management ; Governance ; Groundwater irrigation ; Social aspects ; Economic aspects ; Water use ; Institutions / China / India / Mexico / Spain
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.6.3 G000 MUK Record No: H038048)
6 Shah, Tushaar; Singh, Om Prakash; Mukherji, A.. 2006. Some aspects of South Asia’s groundwater irrigation economy: analyses from a survey in India, Pakistan, Nepal Terai and Bangladesh. Hydrogeology Journal, 14:286-309.
Groundwater irrigation ; Wells ; Private ownership ; Social aspects ; Economic aspects ; Energy ; Pricing ; Pumping / India / Pakistan / Nepal / Bangladesh
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.4 G570 SHA Record No: H038640)
7 Mukherji, A.; Rawat, S.; Shah, Tushaar. 2013. Major insights from India’s minor irrigation censuses: 1986-87 to 2006-07. Economic and Political Weekly, 48(26-27, Supplement):115-124.
Groundwater irrigation ; Groundwater table ; Irrigated sites ; Wells ; Tube wells ; Water lifting ; Pumps ; Censuses ; Farmers ; Seasonal variation / India
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H045912)
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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 how farmers have been responding to lowered groundwater tables. Besides identifying some factors that have not changed since the mid-1980s, it emphasises that there are wide regional variations in the country’s groundwater economy and management strategies need to be crafted accordingly.
8 Buisson, Marie-Charlotte; Das, Arijit; Mukherji, A.. 2013. Towards sustainable community management of water infrastructures: results from experimental games in coastal Bangladesh [Abstract only] In Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI). Water cooperation: building partnerships. Abstract Volume, World Water Week in Stockholm, Sweden, 1-6 September 2013. Stockholm, Sweden: Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) pp.65.
Community management ; Resource management ; Water management ; Coastal area ; Maintenance / Bangladesh
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H046197)
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The government of Bangladesh invested in large scale coastal embankment projects in the 1960s and 1970s, which then played an important role in protecting coastal communities from water related disasters and increasing agricultural productivity. However, maintenance of polder infrastructure has been problematic. Since the 1990s, the government of Bangladesh requires local communities to organize themselves into water management groups and to contribute toward minor maintenance of the infrastructure. Empirical evidence shows that some communities have been able to come together and collect funds for maintenance, while majority have not been able to do so. The purpose of this paper is therefore to understand the factors that determine contribution to maintenance funds by community members. For this, a public goods game was played with community participants at several locations in Coastal Bangladesh. Our results show that economic homogeneity in the group as well ions and recommendations proportional sharing of benefits increases the level of contribution. It also shows that institutional mechanisms that allow communities to be involved at an early stage of project formulation and make monetary contributions towards project implementation are more likely to contribute toward maintenance in the long term than communities who did not undergo such institutional processes.
9 Senanayake, Nari; Mukherji, A.. 2014. Irrigating with arsenic contaminated groundwater in West Bengal and Bangladesh: a review of interventions for mitigating adverse health and crop outcomes. Agricultural Water Management, 135:90-99. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2013.12.015]
Groundwater irrigation ; Arsenic ; Contamination ; Soils ; Public health ; Health hazards ; Agriculture ; Crop production ; Rice ; Drinking water ; Water management ; Fertilizers ; Nutrition ; Literature reviews ; Case studies / India / Bangladesh / West Bengal
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H046387)
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There is a rich body of literature on arsenic (As) contamination of groundwater and its consequences for human health via drinking water. Less is known however, on the impacts that flow from the use of arsenic rich groundwater for irrigation or the effectiveness of arsenic remediation in agricultural systems. To partially fill this gap, we review 29 studies that examine the consequences of irrigating with arsenic contaminated groundwater and 28 studies which evaluate interventions aimed at reducing its negative impacts on human health and crops. These studies are geographically limited to West Bengal and Bangladesh (Bengal plains) as these regions constitute hubs of concerns for groundwater contamination. These studies show that there are six broad categories of interventions: deficit irrigation; soil fertilization; growing alternative field crops (other than paddy); switching to arsenic tolerant paddy cultivars; cooking methods to reduce arsenic content in rice and nutritional supplements. Importantly, these efforts target different stages of the agri-food system, some intervene in production processes and balance concerns for crop yields and human health while others focus on consumption practices and only mitigate health risks. Despite this diversity in focus, our results indicate that all treatments have positive effects, either in reducing As content in grains, its accumulation in soil and/or increase crop yields compared to control groups. However, the extent of these impacts varies as do their implications for long-term agricultural sustainability. From a policy perspective, these interventions offer promising alternatives to the extremes of restricted groundwater use on the one hand, and unregulated extraction on the other, but are yet to be integrated into mainstream extension services.
10 Dewan, C.; Buisson, Marie-Charlotte; Mukherji, A.. 2014. The imposition of participation?: the case of participatory water management in coastal Bangladesh. Water Alternatives, 7(2): 342-366.
Water management ; Water policy ; Natural resources management ; Coastal area ; Participatory approaches ; Community organizations ; Local government ; Stakeholders ; Nongovernmental organizations ; Households ; Case studies / Bangladesh
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H046497)
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Community-based Natural Resources Management (CBNRM) has been promoted as part of the development discourse on sustainable natural resources management since the mid-1980s. It has influenced recent water policy in Bangladesh through the Guidelines for Participatory Water Management (GPWM) where community-based organisations are to participate in the management of water resources. This paper reviews the extent of success of such participatory water management. It does so by first discussing the changing discourses of participation in Bangladesh’s water policy from social mobilisation to decentralised CBNRM. Second, Bangladesh is used as a case study to draw attention to how the creation of separate water management organisations has been unable to promote inclusive participation. It argues that the current form of decentralisation through a CBNRM framework has not resulted in its stated aims of equitable, efficient, and sustainable management of natural resources; rather it has duplicated existing local government institutions. Finally, it questions the current investments into community-based organisations and recommends that the role of local government in water management be formally recognised.
11 Dewan, C.; Mukherji, A.; Buisson, Marie-Charlotte. 2015. Evolution of water management in coastal Bangladesh: from temporary earthen embankments to depoliticized community-managed polders. Water International, 40(3):401-416. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2015.1025196]
Water management ; History ; Decentralization ; Coastal area ; Natural resources management ; Landowners ; State intervention ; Governmental organizations ; Local community ; Empowerment / Bangladesh
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H046932)
This article examines the historical evolution of participatory water management in coastal Bangladesh. Three major shifts are identified: first, from indigenous local systems managed by landlords to centralized government agencies in the 1960s; second, from top-down engineering solutions to small-scale projects and people’s participation in the 1970s and 1980s; and third, towards depoliticized community-based water management since the 1990s. While donor requirements for community participation in water projects have resulted in the creation of ‘depoliticized’ water management organizations, there are now increasing demands for involvement of politically elected local government institutions in water management by local communities.
12 Dewan, C.; Buisson, Marie-Charlotte; Mukherji, A.. 2015. The imposition of participation?: the case of participatory water management in coastal Bangladesh. In Humphreys, E.; Tuong, T. P.; Buisson, Marie-Charlotte; Pukinskis, I.; Phillips, M. (Eds.). Proceedings of the CPWF, GBDC, WLE Conference on Revitalizing the Ganges Coastal Zone: Turning Science into Policy and Practices, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 21-23 October 2014. Colombo, Sri Lanka: CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF). pp.162-182.
Water management ; Coastal area ; Participatory approaches ; Community involvement ; Natural resources management ; Local government ; Governmental organizations ; Sustainability ; Water policy ; Social mobility ; Decentralization ; Equity ; Women ; Financing ; Stakeholders ; Case studies / Bangladesh
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047111)
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13 Das, A.; Buisson, Marie-Charlotte; Mukherji, A.. 2015. Predicting success in community-driven water infrastructure maintenance: evidence from public goods games in coastal Bangladesh. In Humphreys, E.; Tuong, T. P.; Buisson, Marie-Charlotte; Pukinskis, I.; Phillips, M. (Eds.). Proceedings of the CPWF, GBDC, WLE Conference on Revitalizing the Ganges Coastal Zone: Turning Science into Policy and Practices, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 21-23 October 2014. Colombo, Sri Lanka: CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF). pp.183-196.
Coastal area ; Water management ; Local communities ; Sustainability ; Econometrics ; Models ; Institutions ; Reclaimed land / Bangladesh
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047112)
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14 Mukherji, A.; Shah, Tushaar; Banerjee, P. S. 2016. Kick-starting a second green revolution in Bengal. In Shah, M.; Vijayshankar, P. S. (Eds.). Water: growing understanding, emerging perspectives. New Delhi, India: Orient BlackSwan. pp.483-489. (Readings on the Economy, Polity and Society)
Groundwater ; Agricultural development ; Green revolution ; Irrigation water ; Water use ; Pumps ; Electrification ; Diesel oil ; Costs ; Economic aspects ; Farmers ; Institutions ; Government policy / India / West Bengal
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047749)
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15 Mukherji, A.. 2018. Managing energy-irrigation nexus: insights from Karnataka and Punjab states in India. In Villholth Karen G.; Lopez-Gunn, E.; Conti, K.; Garrido, A.; Van Der Gun, J. (Eds.). Advances in groundwater governance. Leiden, Netherlands: CRC Press. pp.289-305.
Irrigation management ; Groundwater management ; Water users ; Water use ; Energy ; Electricity generation ; Agriculture ; Aquifers ; Pumps / India / Karnataka / Punjab
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI, e-copy SF Record No: H048553)
16 Scott, C. A.; Zhang, F.; Mukherji, A.; Immerzeel, W.; Mustafa, D.; Bharati, Luna; Zhang, H.; Albrecht, T.; Lutz, A.; Nepal, S.; Siddiqi, A.; Kuemmerle, H.; Qadir, M.; Bhuchar, S.; Prakash, A.; Sinha, R. 2019. Water in the Hindu Kush Himalaya. In Wester, P.; Mishra, A.; Mukherji, A.; Shrestha, A. B. (Eds.). The Hindu Kush Himalaya assessment: mountains, climate change, sustainability and people. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. pp.257-299.
Water availability ; Precipitation ; River basin management ; Flow discharge ; Sedimentation ; Water springs ; Water use ; Water quality ; Water pollution ; Water governance ; Water institutions ; Groundwater management ; Lowland ; Mountains ; Plains ; Drinking water ; Sanitation ; Contaminants ; Urbanization ; Ecosystems ; Environmental flows ; International waters ; International cooperation ; Decision making / Central Asia / South Asia / Hindu Kush / Himalaya
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049103)
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https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049103.pdf
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17 Wester, P.; Mishra, A.; Mukherji, A.; Shrestha, A. B. (Eds.) 2019. The Hindu Kush Himalaya assessment: mountains, climate change, sustainability and people. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. 627p. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92288-1]
Climate change ; Mountains ; Sustainable Development Goals ; Living standards ; Natural Resources ; Water availability ; Water use ; Groundwater ; Water governance ; Food security ; Nutrition ; Natural disasters ; Disaster risk reduction ; Resilience ; Ecosystem services ; Biodiversity conservation ; Urbanization ; Land use ; Land cover change ; Air pollution ; Air quality ; Weather forecasting ; Temperature ; Precipitation ; Energy demand ; Energy policies ; Gender ; Communities ; Decision making ; Assessment ; Environmental sustainability ; Glaciers ; Watersheds ; Rivers ; Snow ; Infrastructure ; Indicators ; Economic growth ; Models / South Asia / Afghanistan / Bangladesh / Bhutan / Pakistan / India / Nepal / Myanmar / China / Hindu Kush Himalayan Region / Tibetan Plateau
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049457)
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18 Mitra, Archisman; Buisson, Marie-Charlotte; Osmani, A. Z.; Mukherji, A.. 2024. Unleashing the potential of solar irrigation in Bangladesh: key lessons from different implementation models. Environmental Research Letters, 19(1):014024. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad0eaf]
Solar powered irrigation systems ; Pumps ; Business models ; Energy ; Nexus approaches ; Groundwater ; Sustainability ; Financing ; Equity / Bangladesh
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H052476)
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ad0eaf/pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H052476.pdf
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The transition to solar-powered irrigation in South Asia offers an opportunity to cut greenhouse gas emissions and reduce dependency on expensive diesel. However, appropriate institutional and financial models are required to scale up this technology. Three different solar irrigation pump (SIP) implementation modalities coexist in Bangladesh, providing a good opportunity to evaluate and gain insightful knowledge on the solarization process. These conclusions are also applicable to neighboring countries dealing with comparable problems. The three models are (i) community-managed SIP model, (ii) individual ownership model, and (iii) fee-for-service model. In this article, we argue that the fee-for-service model involving a market-based approach and public-private partnership is the most promising in terms of addressing two main challenges in solarization, i.e. high capex financing requirement and generation of sufficient demand. In terms of achieving equity in SIP access and groundwater sustainability, all three models have their respective pros and cons. However, the financial sustainability of SIPs is under threat due to the significant project costs. It is imperative to expedite the integration of SIPs with the national power grid while implementing supportive government policies. This includes enhancing buy-back tariffs and introducing net-metering options to ensure long-term sustainability.
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