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1 Ahmad, Mobin-ud -Din; Biggs, Trent; Turral, Hugh; Scott, Christopher. 2006. Application of SEBAL approach and MODIS time-series to map vegetation water use patterns in the data scarce Krishna river basin of India. Water Science and Technology, 53(10):83-90.
Evapotranspiration ; Water use ; Indicators ; River basins ; Groundwater irrigation ; Water deficit ; Rice ; Models ; Remote sensing / India / Krishna River Basin
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.1 G635 AHM Record No: H038857)
2 Thenkabail, Prasad; Gangadhara Rao, P.; Biggs, Trent; Krishna, M.; Turral, Hugh. 2007. Spectral matching techniques to determine historical land use/Land cover (LULC) and irrigated areas using time-series 0.1 degree AVHRR Pathfinder Datasets. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, 73(9):1029-1040.
Land use ; Land cover ; Irrigated land ; Time series analysis ; Remote sensing ; Mapping / India / Krishna River Basin
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.1.1 G635 THE Record No: H039380)
3 Smakhtin, Vladimir; Arunachalam, M.; Behera, S.; Chatterjee, A.; Das, S.; Gautam, P.; Joshi, G. D.; Sivaramakrishnan, K. G.; Unni, K. S. 2007. Developing procedures for assessment of ecological status of Indian River basins in the context of environmental water requirements. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 34p. (IWMI Research Report 114) [doi: https://doi.org/10.3910/2009.114]
River basins ; Ecology ; Indicators ; Environmental flows ; Environmental management ; Habitats ; Biota ; Fish ; Ecosystems / India / Krishna River Basin / Chauvery River Basin / Narmada River Basin / Periyar River Basin / Ganga River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 577.64 G635 SMA Record No: H040333)
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This report attempts to introduce a prototype scoring system for the ecological status of rivers in India and illustrate it through the applications in several major river basins. This system forms part of the desktop environmental flow assessment and is based on a number of indicators reflecting ecological condition and sensitivity of a river. The unique aspect of this study is that it interprets, for the first time, the existing ecological information for Indian rivers in the context of environmental flow assessment. The report targets government departments, research institutions and NGOs which are engaged in environmental flow management and associated policy development, and suggests some subsequent steps in environmental flow work in India.
4 Venot, Jean-Philippe. 2007. Integrating spatial dynamics for sustainable water management at the river basin scale: the example of the Krishna River Basin in South India. Paper presented at the International Workshop on Water: Spatial Dynamics, Competitive Claims and Governance. How to reduce stress on the resource in urban, peri-urban and rural areas? IFP, Pondicherry University, MIDS; Pondicherry University 29-31st August 2007. 9p.
River basin management ; River basin development ; Water allocation ; Environmental effects / India / Krishna River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 577.64 G635 VEN Record No: H040581)
The Krishna Basin in South India has seen an increasing agricultural and water development since India gained independence. This has resulted in over-commitment of water: more water is used than is environmentally desirable or than is renewably available, leading to basin closure (zero or minimal flow to the ocean). As basin closure intensifies the interconnectedness of ecosystems and water users, adjustments and management decisions become tantamount to a spatial re-appropriation of water. Acknowledging and integrating these spatial dynamics of water availability and use is needed to avoid social and environmental impacts. This can only be achieved through a multilevel governance structure centered on basin-wide strategies of water management. Basin water management would then start with the definition and the implementation of water allocation mechanisms that are increasingly needed to ensure a balance between equity, sustainability and efficient uses of scarce water resources for both human benefit and environment preservation.
5 Bouma, Jetske Anne. 2008. Voluntary cooperation in the provision of a semi-public good: community-based soil and water conservation in semi-arid India. Thesis. Tilburg, Netherlands: Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research. 145p. (Center for Economic Research, Tilburg University Dissertation Series 207)
Watershed management ; Irrigation water ; Water conservation ; Soil conservation ; Households ; Investment ; Crop management ; Villages / India / Krishna River Basin / Kalyanpur / Kanakanala / Kosgi / Vaiju Babulgaon
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: D 333.91 G635 BOU Record No: H040967)
IWMI funded Ph D Thesis
6 Gaur, Anju; Biggs, Trent W.; Gumma, Murali Krishna; Gangadhara Rao, Parthasaradhi; Turral, Hugh. 2008. Water scarcity effects on equitable water distribution and land use in a major irrigation project: case study in India. Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, 134(1): 26-35.
Reservoirs ; Dams ; Canals ; Water distribution ; Irrigation programs ; Crop production ; Case studies / India / Nagarjuna Sagar / Krishna River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7 G635 GAU Record No: H041182)
In many river basins, upstream development and interannual variations in rainfall can cause both episodic and chronic shortages in water supplies downstream. Continued rapid development of surface and groundwater throughout the Krishna Basin in southern India resulted in historically low inflows to the main canals of the Nagarjuna Sagar irrigation project _8,955 km2_ during a recent drought _2002–2004_. This paper presents an integrated approach to assess how cropping patterns and the spatial equity of canal flow changed with water supply shocks in the left canal command area _3,592 km2_ of Nagarjuna Sagar. We combined 3 years _2000– 2003_ of canal release data with census statistics and high temporal resolution _8–10 days_ moderate resolution imaging spectrometer _MODIS_ 500-m resolution satellite imagery. The impact of water scarcity on land use pattern, delineated by MODIS images with moderate spatial resolution, was comparable with the census statistics, while the MODIS data also identified areas with changes and delays in the rice crop area, which is critical in assessing the impact of canal operations. A 60% reduction in water availability during the drought resulted in 40% land being fallowed in the left-bank canal command area. The results suggest that head reach areas receiving high supply rates during a normal year experienced the highest risks of fluctuations in water supply and cropped area during a water short year compared to downstream areas, which had chronically low water supply, and better adaptive responses by farmers. Contrary to expectations, the spatial distribution of canal flows among the three major zones of the command area was more equitable during low-flow years due to decreased flow at the head reach of the canal and relatively smaller decreases in tail-end areas. The findings suggested that equitable allocations could be achieved by improving the water distribution efficiency of the canal network during normal years and by crop diversification and introduction of alternative water sources during water shortage years. The study identified areas susceptible to decreases in water supplies by using modern techniques, which can help in decision-making processes for equitable water allocation and distribution and in developing strategies to mitigate the effects of water supply shocks on cropping patterns and rural livelihoods.
7 Gumma, Murali Krishna; Thenkabail, Prasad S.; Gautam, N. C.; Gangadhara Rao, Parthasaradhi; Manohar, Velpuri. 2008. Irrigated area mapping using AVHRR, MODIS and LANDSAT ETM+ data for the Krishna River Basin, India. Technology Spectrum, 2(1): 1-11.
River basins ; Water scarcity ; Irrigation programs ; Irrigated land ; Remote sensing ; Mapping ; Time series analysis / India / Krishna River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.1 G635 GUM Record No: H041432)
Net irrigated area in the Krishna river basin is varying quiet frequently due to water scarcity. Accurate area and extent of irrigated area in the Krishna River Basin is not available. State Irrigation Department projects large area under irrigation in the Krishna River Basin, which is attributed to its prestigious irrigation projects. However, the irrigation projects do not fulfill the demand in the basin consequently the tail Enders grow dry crops. Remote sensing replaces costly and tedious data collection on the ground, which is non-destructive. The aim of the present study is to prepare a comprehensive land use/land cover (LU/LC) map using continuous time-series data of multiple resolutions. A methodology is developed to map irrigated area categories using LANDSAT ETM+ along with coarse resolution time series imagery from AVHRR and MODIS, SRTM elevation, and other secondary data. Major stress was towards discrimination of ground-water irrigated area from surface-water irrigated area, determining of cropping patterns in irrigated area using MODIS NDVI time- series, and use of non-traditional methods of accuracy assessment using, ancillary datasets like SRTM-DEM, precipitation and state census statistics. A regression of the 9 class areas against agricultural census data explained 73% and 74% of the variance in groundwater and surface water irrigated area, respectively.
8 Venot, Jean-Philippe. 2008. Why and where are the Krishna waters disappearing? Economic and Political Weekly, 43(6):15-17.
Water scarcity ; River basins ; Discharges ; Water balance ; Ecosystems ; Water use ; Sustainability / India / Krishna River Basin / Andhra Pradesh / Karnataka / Maharashtra
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 333.9162 G635 VEN Record No: H041488)
The depletion of the waters of the Krishna river is changing the ecosystem of its basin. How can equity, sustainability and efficient use of the scarce water resources be ensured?
9 Van-Rooijen, Daniel J.; Turral, Hugh; Biggs, T. W. 2009. Urban and industrial water use in the Krishna Basin, India. Irrigation and Drainage, 58(4):406-428. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ird.439]
River basins ; Water use ; Domestic water ; Urbanization ; Industrialization ; Water power ; Energy ; Electricity supplies ; Irrigation water ; Models ; Impact assessment ; Water demand ; Water use efficiency / India / Krishna River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 333.9162 G635 VAN Record No: H041493)
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Regional urbanization and industrial development require water that may put additional pressure on available water resources and threaten water quality in developing countries. In this study we use a combination of census statistics, case studies, and a simple model of demand growth to assess current and future urban and industrial water demand in the Krishna Basin in southern India.Water use in this ‘‘closed’’ basin is dominated by irrigation (61.9 billion cubic metres (BCM) yr1) compared to a modest domestic and industrialwater use (1.6 and 3.2BCMyr1). Totalwater diversion for non-irrigation purposes is estimated at 7–8% of available surface water in the basin in an average year. Thermal power plants use the majority of water used by industries (86% or 2.7 BCM yr1), though only 6.8% of this is consumed via evaporation. Simple modelling of urban and industrial growth suggests that non-agricultural water demand will range from 10 to 20 BCM by 2030. This is 14–28% of basin water available surface water for an average year and 17–34% for a year with 75% dependable flow. Although water use in the Krishna Basin will continue to be dominated by agriculture, water stress, and the fraction of water supplies at risk of becoming polluted by urban and industrial activity, will become more severe in urbanized regions in dry years.
10 Smakhtin, Vladimir; Gamage, Nilantha; Bharati, Luna. 2008. Hydrological and environmental issues of inter-basin water transfers in India: a case study of the Krishna River Basin. In Amarasinghe, Upali A.; Sharma, Bharat R. (Eds.) Strategic Analyses of the National River Linking Project (NRLP) of India, Series 2. Proceedings of the Workshop on Analyses of Hydrological, Social and Ecological Issues of the NRLP, New Delhi, India, 9-10 October 2007. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI) pp.79-106.
River basin management ; River basin development ; Development projects ; Water transfer ; Flow ; Water availability ; Surface water ; Water balance ; Environmental effects ; Erosion ; Coasts / India / Krishna River Basin / Pennar Basin / Godavari River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 333.9162 G635 AMA Record No: H041800)
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11 Bhaduri, Anik; Amarasinghe, Upali A.; Shah, Tushaar. 2008. Benefits of irrigation water transfers in the National River Linking Project: a case study of Godavari (Polavaram)-Krishna link in Andhra Pradesh. In Amarasinghe, Upali A.; Sharma, Bharat R. (Eds.) Strategic Analyses of the National River Linking Project (NRLP) of India, Series 2. Proceedings of the Workshop on Analyses of Hydrological, Social and Ecological Issues of the NRLP, New Delhi, India, 9-10 October 2007. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI) pp.173-193.
River basin management ; Development projects ; Water scarcity ; Water transfer ; Groundwater irrigation ; Surface irrigation ; Land use ; Dams ; Rice ; Livestock / India / Godavari River Basin / Krishna River Basin / Andhra Pradesh / Polavaram Dam
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 333.9162 G635 AMA Record No: H041803)
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12 Bharati, Luna; Anand, B. K.; Smakhtin, Vladimir. 2008. Analysis of the Inter-basin Water Transfer Scheme in India: a case study of the Godavari-Krishna link. In Amarasinghe, Upali A.; Sharma, Bharat R. (Eds.) Strategic Analyses of the National River Linking Project (NRLP) of India, Series 2. Proceedings of the Workshop on Analyses of Hydrological, Social and Ecological Issues of the NRLP, New Delhi, India, 9-10 October 2007. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI) pp.63-78.
River basin management ; River basin development ; Development projects ; Water availability ; Water demand ; Water transfer ; Dams ; Canals ; Crop management / India / Godavari River Basin / Krishna River Basin / Polavaram Project / Arthur Cotton Barrage
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 333.9162 G635 AMA Record No: H041799)
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13 Venot, Jean-Philippe. 2008. Drawing water for thirsty lands: stories of the closing Krishna River Basin in South India. Paper presented at the 13th World Water Congress, Sub Theme 1, Water Availability, Use and Management, Montpellier, France, 1-4 September 2008. 15p.
River basin development ; Soil moisture ; Water balance ; Water use ; Rain ; Supplemental irrigation / India / Krishna River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H041819)
http://www.worldwatercongress2008.org/resource/authors/abs491_article.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H041819.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H041819.pdf
14 Smakhtin, Vladimir; Arunachalam, M.; Sivaramakrishnan, K. G.; Behera, S.; Chatterjee, A.; Gautam, P.; Das, Srabani; Joshi, G. D.; Unni, K. S. 2009. Developing procedures for assessment of ecological status of Indian river basins in the context of environmental water requirements. In Amarasinghe, Upali A.; Shah, Tushaar; Malik, R. P. S. (Eds.). Strategic Analyses of the National River Linking Project (NRLP) of India, Series 1: India’s water future: scenarios and issues. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI) pp.329-366.
River basins ; Indicators ; Environmental flows ; Environmental management ; Ecology ; Wetlands ; Habitats ; Biota ; Fish ; Ecosystems / India / Krishna River Basin / Chauvery River Basin / Narmada River Basin / Periyar River Basin / Ganga River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 333.9162 G635 AMA Record No: H042046)
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15 Mohile, A. D.; Anand, B. K. 2009. Natural flows assessment and creating alternative future scenarios for major river basins of peninsular India. In Amarasinghe, Upali A.; Shah, Tushaar; Malik, R. P. S. (Eds.). Strategic Analyses of the National River Linking Project (NRLP) of India, Series 1: India’s water future: scenarios and issues. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI) pp.381-403.
River basins ; Flow ; Estimation ; Hydrology ; Models ; Water transfer ; Water use ; Runoff ; Evapotranspiration ; Reservoirs ; Water storage ; Environmental flows ; Water balance ; Irrigation efficiency / India / Brahmani Baitarni River Basin / Cauvery River Basin / Godavari River Basin / Krishna River Basin / Mahanadi River Basin / Narmada River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 333.9162 G635 AMA Record No: H042048)
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16 Gumma, Murali Krishna; Thenkabail, P. S.; Velpuri, N. M. 2009. Vegetation phenology to partition groundwater- from surface water-irrigated areas using MODIS 250-m time-series data for the Krishna River basin. In Bloschl, G.; van de Giesen, N.; Muralidharan, D.; Ren, L.; Seyler, F.; Sharma, U.; Vrba, J. (Eds.). Improving integrated surface and groundwater resources management in a vulnerable and changing world: proceedings of Symposium JS.3 at the Joint Convention of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) and the International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH), Hyderabad, India, 6-12 September 2009. Wallingford, UK: International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) pp.271-281. (IAHS Publication 330)
Vegetation ; Phenology ; River basins ; Vegetation ; Maps ; Land cover ; Land use ; Groundwater irrigation ; Surface irrigation ; Canals ; Reservoirs ; Irrigated land ; Time series analysis ; Remote sensing / India / Krishna River basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H042217)
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This paper describes a remote sensing based vegetation-phenology approach to accurately separate out and quantify groundwater irrigated areas from surface-water irrigated areas in the Krishna River basin (265 752 km2), India, using MODIS 250-m every 8-day near continuous time series for 2000–2001. Temporal variations in the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) pattern, depicting phenology, obtained for the irrigated classes enabled demarcation between: (a) irrigated surface-water double crop, (b) irrigated surface-water continuous crop, and (c) irrigated groundwater mixed crops. The NDVI patterns were found to be more consistent in areas irrigated with groundwater due to the continuity of water supply. Surface water availability, however, was dependent on canal water release that affected time of crop sowing and growth stages, which was in turn reflected in the NDVI pattern. Double-cropped (IDBL) and light irrigation (IL) have relatively late onset of greenness, because they use canal water from reservoirs that drain large catchments and take weeks to fill. Minor irrigation and groundwater-irrigated areas have early onset of greenness because they drain smaller catchments where aquifers and reservoirs fill more quickly. Vegetation phonologies of nine distinct classes consisting of irrigated, rainfed, and other land-use classes were derived using MODIS 250-m near continuous time-series data that were tested and verified using groundtruth data, Google Earth very high resolution (sub-metre to 4 m) imagery, and state-level census data. Fuzzy classification accuracies for most classes were around 80% with class mixing mainly between various irrigated classes. The areas estimated from MODIS were highly correlated with census data (R-squared value of 0.86).
17 Sharma, Bharat R.; Massuel, S.; Rao, K. V. G. K.; Venot, Jean-Philippe. 2009. Groundwater externalities of large, surface irrigation transfers: insights from the Godavari–Krishna river link, India. In Bloschl, G.; van de Giesen, N.; Muralidharan, D.; Ren, L.; Seyler, F.; Sharma, U.; Vrba, J. (Eds.). Improving integrated surface and groundwater resources management in a vulnerable and changing world: proceedings of Symposium JS.3 at the Joint Convention of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) and the International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH), Hyderabad, India, 6-12 September 2009. Wallingford, UK: International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS). 8p. (IAHS Publication 330)
River basin management ; Groundwater recharge ; Simulation models ; Irrigation canals ; Water balance ; Waterlogging ; Water transfer ; Groundwater irrigation ; Crop production / India / Krishna River Basin / Godavari River Basin / Indira Sagar Right Main Canal / Eluru Canal
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H042291)
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The Krishna basin in South India is a fast closing basin. Consumptive water use, mainly for agriculture, accounted for 90.5% of the basin net inflow. The adjoining Godavari basin is comparatively water rich and it is planned to transfer 5325 million m3 of Godavari waters to Krishna through P-V Link. Such a transfer shall make the groundwater-irrigated area more sustainable, a part of the remaining rainfed area will come under irrigation and current benefits shall increase by 65%. MODFLOW results showed groundwater recharge increased by 28% due to supplement irrigation return flow. Annual estimated seepage from the main system was estimated at 183 million m3 per year leading to an average water table rise of 1.83 m. This is also likely to affect 16% of the command with water logging. Integrated planning of surface and groundwater resources and a scientific demand management through optimization of cropping systems have the potential to effectively harness the benefits of the river linking initiative.
18 Gaur, Anju; McCornick, Peter G.; Turral, Hugh; Acharya, Sreedhar. 2008. The challenge of inter-state water management. id21 Natural Resources Highlights, November 2008 (7 Water): 2.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H042387)
19 Venot, Jean-Philippe. 2009. Rural dynamics and new challenges in the Indian water sector: the trajectory of the Krishna Basin, South India. In Molle, Francois; Wester, P. (Eds.). River basin trajectories: societies, environments and development. Wallingford, UK: CABI; Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). pp.214-237. (Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture Series 8)
River basin development ; Water availability ; Assessment ; Water use ; Water transfer ; Irrigation programs ; Water allocation ; Water governance / India / Krishna River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 333.9462 G000 MOL Record No: H042381)
20 Molle, Francois; Wester, P. (Eds.) 2009. River basin trajectories: societies, environments and development. Wallingford, UK: CABI; Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 311p. (Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture Series 8)
River basin management ; River basin development ; Hydrology ; Water governance ; Water use ; History ; Water allocation ; Water transfer ; Water quality ; Irrigation management ; Groundwater management ; Surface irrigation ; Water lifting ; Pumping / Middle East / Jordan / South Africa / Mexico / Tunisia / Tanzania / Iran / India / China / USA / Australia / Lower Jordan River Basin / Olifants River Basin / Lerma-Chapala River Basin / Mediterranean River Basin / Great Ruaha River / Zayandeh Rud River Basin / Krishna River Basin / Bhavani River Basin / Yellow River Basin / Colorado River Basin / Murray Darling River Basin / Merguellil Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 333.9162 G000 MOL Record No: H042436)
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