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1 Bunsen, J.; Rathod, R. 2016. Pipe assisted underground taming of surface floods: the experience with Holiyas in north Gujarat. IWMI-Tata Water Policy Research Highlight, 2. 8p.
Flooding ; Underground storage ; Surface water ; Groundwater ; Water storage ; Smallholders ; Drought ; Erosion ; Crop yield ; Cultivation ; Socioeconomic development ; Hydrogeology ; Environmental impact / India / Gujarat
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047434)
http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/iwmi-tata/PDFs/iwmi-tata_water_policy_research_highlight-issue_02_2016.pdf
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2 Pavelic, Paul; Brindha, Karthikeyan; Amarnath, Giriraj; Eriyagama, Nishadi; Muthuwatta, Lal; Smakhtin, Vladimir; Gangopadhyay, Prasun K.; Malik, Ravinder Paul Singh; Mishra, Atmaram; Sharma, Bharat R.; Hanjra, Munir A.; Reddy, R. V.; Mishra, V. K.; Verma, C. L.; Kant, L. 2015. Controlling floods and droughts through underground storage: from concept to pilot implementation in the Ganges River Basin. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 33p. (IWMI Research Report 165) [doi: https://doi.org/10.5337/2016.200]
Climate change ; Flood control ; Flood irrigation ; Floodplains ; Drought ; River basins ; Economic aspects ; Cost benefit analysis ; Corporate culture ; Groundwater depletion ; Groundwater recharge ; Groundwater irrigation ; Water storage ; Water resources ; Underground storage ; Subsurface runof ; Flow discharge ; Disaster risk reduction ; Impact assessment ; Case studies / South East Asia / India / Nepal / Bangladesh / Tibet / Ganges River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H047460)
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The concept of ‘Underground Taming of Floods for Irrigation’ (UTFI) is introduced as an approach for co-managing floods and droughts at the river basin scale. UTFI involves strategic recharge of aquifers upstream during periods of high flow, thereby preventing local and downstream flooding, and simultaneously providing additional groundwater for irrigation during the dry season for livelihood improvement. Three key stages in moving UTFI from the concept stage to mainstream implementation are discussed. An analysis of prospects in the Ganges River Basin are revealed from the earliest stage of mapping of suitability at the watershed level through to the latest stages of identifying and setting up the first pilot trial in the Upper Ganges, where a comprehensive evaluation is under way. If UTFI can be verified then there is enormous potential to apply it to address climate change adaptation/mitigation and disaster risk reduction challenges globally.
3 de Rijke, K.; Munro, P.; Melo Zurita, M. L. 2016. The Great Artesian Basin: a contested resource environment of subterranean water and coal seam gas in Australia. Society and Natural Resources, 29(6):696-710. (Special Issue: Thinking Relationships Through Water). [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2015.1122133]
Natural resources ; Groundwater ; Underground storage ; Water storage ; Aquifers ; Natural gas ; Methane ; Extraction ; Environmental effects ; Technological changes ; State intervention ; Political aspects ; Social impact / Australia / Great Artesian Basin / Queensland
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047524)
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The Great Artesian Basin (GAB) in Australia is one of the largest subterranean aquifer systems in the world. In this article we venture into the subterranean “resource environment”’ of the Great Artesian Basin and ask whether new insights can be provided by social analyses of the “vertical third dimension” in contemporary contests over water and coal seam gas. Our analysis makes use of a large number of publicly available submissions made to recent state and federal government inquiries, augmented with data obtained through ethnographic fieldwork among landholders in the coal seam gas fields of southern Queensland. We examine the contemporary contest in terms of ontological politics, and regard the underground as a challenging “socionature hybrid” in which the material characteristics, uses, and affordances of water and coal seam gas resources in the Great Artesian Basin are entangled with broader social histories, technologies, knowledge debates, and discursive contests.
4 Gangopadhyay, Prasun K.; Sharma, Bharat R.; Pavelic, Paul. 2018. Co-solving groundwater depletion and seasonal flooding through an innovative managed aquifer recharge approach: converting pilot to a regional solution in the Ram Ganga Sub-basin. In Saha D.; Marwaha S.; Mukherjee A. (Eds). Clean and sustainable groundwater in India. Gateway East, Singapore: Springer. pp.173-189. (Springer Hydrogeology Series)
Groundwater depletion ; Groundwater recharge ; Groundwater irrigation ; Flooding ; Aquifers ; Seasonal variation ; Underground storage ; Drought ; Water storage ; Water resources ; Water quality ; Water table ; Aquifers ; Community involvement ; Canals / India / Uttar Pradesh / Rampur District / Ram Ganga Sub-basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048500)
Climate induced extreme events such as floods and droughts are often disastrous in incidences and affects Indian economy often. Low per capita surface water storage (225 m3/capita1), few sites for additional storages facilities and depleting groundwater aquifers reduce the resilience of the communities to alleviate the day-to-day short age and larger seasonal shocks. India has a long history of storing and recharging runoff waters through community participation. Ongoing such programs are focused on drought-prone or socio-economically weak areas and exclude the flood prone zones. The present study aims to improve the groundwater resources availability through diverting flows from rivers or canals at times when these flows pose flood risk and recharging the groundwater through suitable artificial recharge structures. This method addresses the issue of groundwater depletion as well as reducing the flood risks. A geo-hydrological analysis in spatial platform using data available in public domain and detailed ground survey, a site was identified in Jiwai Jadid village of Milk Block of Rampur district of Uttar Pradesh, India. A community owned pond was retrofitted with recharge wells and associated infrastructure to draw excess monsoon water from a nearby flood-prone river. The preliminary results show a positive impact on groundwater table and water quality. However, to achieve the full benefit of the method it is required to implement it in larger scale. Ongoing government programs that are focused on livelihood improvement and natural resources management are the best options to scale up such effect in regional scale.
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