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1 Rama Mohan, R. V. 2006. Major loss, minor gain: Polavaram Project in AP: Dams and displacement. Economic and Political Weekly, 41(7):604-606.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 7504 Record No: H038475)
2 Bhaduri, Anik; Amarasinghe, Upali; Shah, Tushaar. 2007. Assessing the irrigation benefits of Polavaram Project in Andhra Pradesh. In National Workshop on National River Linking Project of India: analysis of hydrological, social and ecological issues, Delhi, India, 9-10 October 2007. 32p.
Irrigation programs ; River basins ; Water scarcity ; Water transfer ; Crop management ; Groundwater irrigation ; Tank irrigation ; Dams ; Livestock / India / Andhra Pradesh / Polavaram Project
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI HQ 631.7 G635 BHA Record No: H040792)
3 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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4 Sharma, Amrita; Varma, Samyuktha; Joshi, Deepa. 2008. Social equity impacts of increased water for irrigation. 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.217-237.
Water distribution ; Irrigation water ; Equity ; Tanks ; Canal irrigation ; Villages ; Employment ; Wages ; Gender ; Social aspects ; Water user associations ; Farmers / India / Andhra Pradesh / Orissa / Madhya Pradesh / Polavaram Project / Kondrepol village / Velator village / Sagar Canal
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 333.9162 G635 AMA Record No: H041805)
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5 Sharma, Bharat R.; Rao, K. V. G. K.; Massuel, Sylvain. 2008. Groundwater externalities of surface irrigation transfers under National River Linking Project: Polavaram – Vijayawada 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.271-288.
River basin management ; River basin development ; Development projects ; Water transfer ; Irrigation canals ; Groundwater irrigation ; Tube well irrigation ; Rice ; Surface irrigation ; Crop management ; Soil salinity ; Waterlogging / India / Polavaram Project / Polavaram – Vijayawada Link / Indira Sagar Right Main Canal / Mahanadi River / Godavari / Krishna Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 333.9162 G635 AMA Record No: H041808)
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6 Bharati, Luna; Smakhtin, Vladimir; Anand, B. K. 2009. Modeling water supply and demand scenarios: the Godavari–Krishna inter-basin transfer, India. Water Policy, 11(Supplement 1):140-153. [doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wp.2009.109]
Water scarcity ; Water demand ; Irrigation water ; River basin management ; Water transfer ; Reservoirs ; Canals ; Tanks ; Groundwater ; Crop management ; Rice ; Models / India / Godavari River / Krishna River / Polavaram Project / Vijayawada / Arthur Cotton Barrage / Prakasham Barrage
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H042177)
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The Government of India’s National River-Linking Plan (NRLP) aims to alleviate emerging water scarcity problems by transferring water from well endowed to more deficient areas. This study evaluated the plausible future scenarios of water availability and use under conditions of various cropping patterns, and with the explicit inclusion (for the first time) of environmental water requirements for one of the links of the NRLP: from the Godavari River at Polavaram to the Krishna River at Vijayawada—the ‘Polavaram Project’. The scenarios were evaluated using the WEAP (Water Evaluation and Planning) model. The study generates information for use in managing emerging trade-offs. The importance of explicit accounting for monthly variability in description of water supply and demand, in the monsoon-driven climate conditions of the region, is advocated. Such detailed scenario simulations and inclusion of previously unaccounted for factors/uses can help to create awareness of potential future problems, inform water management practices and suggest management alternatives. Results show that the proposed water storage and transfer will reduce water deficit within the project command area and significantly reduce dry slow river flow into the Lower Godavari Delta.
7 Bharati, Luna; Anand, B. K.; Garg, Kaushal; Acharya, Sreedhar. 2009. Assessing water allocation strategies in the Krishna River Basin, South 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) pp.354-361. (IAHS Publication 330)
Water transfer ; Water allocation ; River basins ; Case studies / India / Krishna River / Godavari River / Polavaram Project / Upper Bhima Catchment
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H042524)
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Water allocation rules are put into place to ensure that various parties receive a portion of developed water supplies. In the Krishna basin, India, all the water available is fully allocated to some purpose for a large part of the year. Over 90% of the allocated water is for irrigation. However, due to increasing demands from the domestic and industrial sectors, as well as expansion in irrigation areas, there is growing competition between the different water use sectors, as well as the three riparian states that share the Krishna basin. In this study, the WEAP (Water Evaluation and Planning) model is used to assess two case studies in which the implications of two separate water transfer schemes are analysed. The first case study presents the feasibility of a proposed water transfer scheme from the Godawari River at the downstream part of the Krishna River. The second case study presents analysis from the Upper Bhima catchment in the upstream part of the Krishna basin. In the second case study, the impact of water transfer out of the basin for electricity generation, on downstream agricultural water demands, is analysed. Results from both studies stress the fact that water resources management in the region has to be done on a seasonal basis by taking monthly variability into consideration. In both cases, water scarcity occurs during the critical dry months.
8 Choudhury, Nirmalya; Patel, Ankit; Phansalkar, S. 2009. Assessing net economic gains from domestic and industrial water supply: cases from NRLP schemes. In International Water Management Institute (IWMI). Strategic Analyses of the National River Linking Project (NRLP) of India Series 5. Proceedings of the Second National Workshop on Strategic Issues in Indian Irrigation, New Delhi, India, 8-9 April 2009. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). pp.233-273.
Water supply ; Domestic water ; Drinking water ; Irrigation water ; River basins ; Canals ; Rural areas / India / Indira Gandhi Nahar Pariyojana / Polavaram-Vijaywada Link Canal Area / Polavaram Project
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H042696)
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This paper attempts to identify and evolve a method for valuing and estimating the net gains from domestic and industrial water supply from the interbasin transfer schemes contemplated in the National River Link Project (NRLP). An existing interbasin transfer (IBT) scheme, namely Indira Gandhi Nahar Project (IGNP) and a proposed IBT scheme namely Polavaram- Vijaywada (PV) Link Canal were chosen for detailed analyses. Secondary data were used for identifying the region and the populations that benefited from the schemes. Economic gains arising out of water supply to the actual or potentially benefited areas were estimated. The estimation involved assessment of current costs incurred by the people in the area, in terms of both paid-out costs and time spent in fetching water. The saving in time was valued at market wage rates prevalent in the area and paid-out costs were assessed in terms of current market prices, ignoring the administered prices involved. The gains to urban populations were assessed by estimating the reduction in energy costs incurred by municipal authorities in undertaking the supply. Amortized capital costs for putting necessary hardware for distributing water from the IBT schemes as well as operation and maintenance (O&M) costs of running these schemes were netted from the gains to obtain the figures for net economic gains. More indirect benefits such as reduced drudgery or improved educational performance as well as reduced health expenditure were recognized but were all ignored to ensure greater robustness in the estimates. Only net gains to the society were considered and hence gains arising out of creation of industrial estates within the commands were ignored since similar gains could also be obtained by locating these estates elsewhere. The net economic gains are seen to depend on both demographic features of the region and its ecology. Desert-like conditions of the IGNP-benefited areas tend to make the gains from domestic water supply schemes large, while similar gains in the Polavaram-Vijaywada areas are smaller. The net economic gains are of a significant order and would seem to indicate that, at least insofar as the dry areas of the country are concerned, these can perhaps exceed the gains due to increased agricultural production and hence could perhaps justify the creation of the schemes by themselves.
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