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1 Agarwal, A.; Narain, S.; Sen, S.. (Eds.) 1999. State of India's environment 5: The citizens' fifth report. Part II - Statistical database. New Delhi, India: Centre for Science and Environment. iv, 256p.
Land resources ; Land use ; Fertilizers ; Livestock ; Pest control ; Water resources ; Water use ; Dams ; Water pollution ; Rivers ; Forests ; Air quality ; Water supply ; Sanitation ; Population growth ; Poverty ; Public health ; Waterborne diseases ; Energy ; Economic aspects ; Environmental policy ; Legislation ; Institutions ; Organizations ; Political aspects / India
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 363.7 G635 AGA Record No: H024784)
2 Agarwal, A.; Narain, S.; Sen, S.. (Eds.) 1999. State of India's environment 5: The citizens' fifth report. Part I - National overview. New Delhi, India: Centre for Science and Environment. viii, 440p.
Environmental effects ; Environmental degradation ; Natural resources ; Ecology ; Ecosystems ; Villages ; Social participation ; Political aspects ; Economic aspects ; Fodder ; Land management ; Water pollution ; Rivers ; Urbanization ; Water quality ; Forestry ; Deforestation ; Dams ; Air quality ; Air pollution ; Monitoring ; Pollution control ; Female labor ; Public health ; Energy ; Wildlife / India / Haryana / Harijan Nada / Lohgarh / Bunga / Relmajara / Gochar / Bihar / Madhya Pradesh / Yamuna / Damodar / Subarnarekha / Betwa / Periyar / Noyyal / Bhavani / Ganga / Delhi / Mumbai / CAlcutta / Chennai / Hyderabad / Bhopal / Ludhiana / Jetpur / Rourkela / Aligarh / Bhagalpur / Kottayam / Jaisalmer / Kaziranga
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 363.7 G635 AGA Record No: H024783)
3 Sen, S.; Banerjee, P. 2004. A framework for prioritizing watershed development programmes: A macro and micro view. Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 59(3):344-357.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: PER Record No: H035988)
4 Adeba, D.; Kansal, M. L.; Sen, S.. 2015. Assessment of water scarcity and its impacts on sustainable development in Awash Basin, Ethiopia. Sustainable Water Resources Management, 1(1):71-87. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40899-015-0006-7]
Water scarcity ; Water availability ; Water balance ; Water resources ; Water demand ; Water requirements ; Sustainable development ; Assessment ; Surface water ; Domestic water ; Industrial uses ; Livestock ; Models ; Soil chemicophysical properties ; Land use ; River basins ; Environmental effects ; Calibration / Ethiopia / Awash Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047902)
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Equitable access and rational use of water resources is important to cope with water scarcity. The optimal allocation of limited water resources for various purposes is required for sustainable development. Awash river basin is one of the most utilized river basins in Ethiopia. There is increasing demand for water due to recent population growth in the basin because of Urbanization. Excessive water abstraction without properly assessing the available water resources in the basin contributes to water scarcity. The basin exhibits two extreme hydrological events, flooding and drought at different seasons of the year. This paper mainly focuses on surface water resources assessment of the Awash basin, and the temporal gap between water supply and demand. The paper also discusses the impacts of these gaps on sustainable development and suggested few recommendations to minimize it. Using SWAT model, the annual average surface water available is estimated around 4.64 Billion Cubic Meters (BCM) as compared to the estimated demand of about 4.67 BCM in the basin for 1980–2012. This shows that on an average, the demand exceeds the availability by 0.03 BCM during the study period. Seasonal water deficit is even serious. A detailed seasonal analysis for the last 2 years (2011–2012) shows that the demand exceeds supply by 1.27 and 2.82 BCM during December–April of 2011 and 2012, respectively. However, there is a surplus supply of 1.67 and 3.16 BCM during June–September months of the same year.
5 Orr, A.; Ahmad, B.; Alam, U.; Appadurai, A. N.; Bharucha, Z. P.; Biemans, H.; Bolch, T.; Chaulagain, N. P.; Dhaubanjar, S.; Dimri, A. P.; Dixon, H.; Fowler, H. J.; Gioli, G.; Halvorson, S. J.; Hussain, A.; Jeelani, G.; Kamal, S.; Khalid, I. S.; Liu, S.; Lutz, A.; Mehra, M. K.; Miles, E.; Momblanch, A.; Muccione, V.; Mukherji, Aditi; Mustafa, D.; Najmuddin, O.; Nasimi, M. N.; Nusser, M.; Pandey, V. P.; Parveen, S.; Pellicciotti, F.; Pollino, C.; Potter, E.; Qazizada, M. R.; Ray, S.; Romshoo, S.; Sarkar, S. K.; Sawas, A.; Sen, S.; Shah, A.; Ali Shah, M. Azeem; Shea, J. M.; Sheikh, A. T.; Shrestha, A. B.; Tayal, S.; Tigala, S.; Virk, Z. T.; Wester, P.; Wescoat, J. L. Jr. 2022. Knowledge priorities on climate change and water in the Upper Indus Basin: a horizon scanning exercise to identify the top 100 research questions in social and natural sciences. Earth's Future, 10(4):e2021EF002619. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2021EF002619]
Climate change adaptation ; Water resources ; Water management ; Water availability ; River basins ; Governance ; Policies ; Sustainability ; Livelihoods ; Vulnerability ; Poverty ; Socioeconomic aspects ; Gender ; Agriculture ; Natural disasters ; Hydroclimatology ; Ecosystems ; Glaciers ; Mountains / Pakistan / India / China / Afghanistan / Hindu-Kush Karakoram Himalaya Region / Upper Indus Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051443)
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2021EF002619
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051443.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051443.pdf
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River systems originating from the Upper Indus Basin (UIB) are dominated by runoff from snow and glacier melt and summer monsoonal rainfall. These water resources are highly stressed as huge populations of people living in this region depend on them, including for agriculture, domestic use, and energy production. Projections suggest that the UIB region will be affected by considerable (yet poorly quantified) changes to the seasonality and composition of runoff in the future, which are likely to have considerable impacts on these supplies. Given how directly and indirectly communities and ecosystems are dependent on these resources and the growing pressure on them due to ever-increasing demands, the impacts of climate change pose considerable adaptation challenges. The strong linkages between hydroclimate, cryosphere, water resources, and human activities within the UIB suggest that a multi- and inter-disciplinary research approach integrating the social and natural/environmental sciences is critical for successful adaptation to ongoing and future hydrological and climate change. Here we use a horizon scanning technique to identify the Top 100 questions related to the most pressing knowledge gaps and research priorities in social and natural sciences on climate change and water in the UIB. These questions are on the margins of current thinking and investigation and are clustered into 14 themes, covering three overarching topics of “governance, policy, and sustainable solutions”, “socioeconomic processes and livelihoods”, and “integrated Earth System processes”. Raising awareness of these cutting-edge knowledge gaps and opportunities will hopefully encourage researchers, funding bodies, practitioners, and policy makers to address them.
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