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1 Mukherji, Aditi; Kishore, Avinash. 2003. Public tubewell transfer in Gujarat: marketing approach to IMT. IWMI-Tata Water Policy Research Highlight, 2/2003. 5p.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.3 G635 MUK Record No: H031796)
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Research highlight based on a paper titled Irrigation management transfer: GWRDCÆs Tubewell Transfer Programme in Gujarat
2 Mukherji, Aditi. 2003. Groundwater development and agrarian change in Eastern India. IWMI-Tata Comment, 9/2003. 11p.
Groundwater development ; Groundwater irrigation ; Public policy ; Water market ; Tube wells ; Economic aspects / India / Uttar Pradesh / Bihar / Punjab / Haryana / West Bengal
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.4 G635 MUK Record No: H031803)
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Research highlight based on a paper titled ôGroundwater development and agriculture production: A comparative study of Eastern Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and West Bengalö
3 Mukherji, Aditi; Shah, Tushaar. 2003. Groundwater governance in South Asia: governing a colossal anarchy. IWMI-Tata Water Policy Research Highlight, 13/2003. 11p.
Water governance ; Groundwater development ; Groundwater irrigation ; Economic aspects ; Environmental effects ; Aquifers ; Wells ; Water market / South Asia / India / Pakistan / Bangladesh / Nepal
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.6.3 G570 MUK Record No: H031807)
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Research highlight based on a paper titled ôGroundwater socio-ecology of South Asia: An overview of issues and evidenceö
4 Mukherji, Aditi. 2005. The spread and extent of irrigation rental market in India, 1976-77 to 1997-98: what does the national sample survey data reveal? IWMI-Tata Water Policy Research Highlight, 7/2005. 7p.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.4 G635 MUK Record No: H036597)
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5 Rivera, A.; Sahuquillo, A.; Andreu, J.; Mukherji, Aditi. 2005. Opportunities of conjunctive use of groundwater and surface water. 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.371-383. (IAH Selected Papers on Hydrogeology 7)
Groundwater ; Surface water ; Conjunctive use ; Artificial recharge ; Drought / South Asia / India / Pakistan / Spain / Canada / USA / Mexico
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 631.7.6.3 G000 SAH Record No: H038624)
6 Llamas, M. R.; Mukherji, Aditi; Shah, Tushaar. 2006. Guest editors’ preface. Hydrogeology Journal, 14(3):269-274.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 553.79 G000 LLA Record No: H039142)
7 Mukherji, Aditi. 2005. Political ecology of groundwater: The contrasting case of water-abundant West Bengal and water-scarce Gujarat, India. Hydrogeology Journal, 15p.
Groundwater management ; Groundwater development ; Estimation ; Water scarcity ; Political aspects ; Farmers’ attitudes / India / West Bengal / Gujarat
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 7580 Record No: H039143)
8 Mukherji, Aditi. 2005. Is intensive use of groundwater a solution to world’s water crisis? In Rogers, P. P.; Llamas, R.; Martinez-Cortina, L. (Eds.). Water crisis: Myth or reality? Marcelino Botin Water Forum 2004. London, UK: Taylor & Francis. pp.181-193.
Water scarcity ; Groundwater ; Governance ; Water use ; Water supply ; Sanitation ; Irrigation water ; Groundwater irrigation
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 333.9104 G000 MUK Record No: H039927)
9 Mukherji, Aditi. 2004. Groundwater markets in Ganga-Meghna-Brahmaputra Basin: Theory and evidence. Economic and Political Weekly, 30(31):3514-3520.
River basins ; Groundwater irrigation ; Water market ; Pricing ; Villages ; Tenancy / India / Ganga / Meghna / Brahmaputra
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 333.9104 G635 MUK Record No: H039928)
10 Mukherji, Aditi. 2007. Implications of alternative institutional arrangements in groundwater sharing: Evidence from West Bengal. Economic and Political Weekly, 42(26):2543-2551.
Groundwater irrigation ; Pumps ; Tube wells ; Private ownership ; Water market ; Prices ; Rice ; Cultivation ; Villages / India / West Bengal / Mohanpur Village / Dunipara Village
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H040213)
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11 Mukherji, Aditi. 2007. Equity implication of alternative institutional arrangements in groundwater sharing: Evidence from West Bengal, India. In Ragone, S. (Ed.). The Global Importance of Groundwater in the 21st Century: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Groundwater Sustainability, Alicante, Spain, 24-27 January 2006. Westerville, OH, USA: National Groundwater Association. pp.305-315.
Groundwater ; Water market ; Water rights ; Ownership ; Farmers ; Tube wells ; Pumps ; Rice ; Paddy fields ; Water use ; Equity ; Villages / India / West Bengal / Donaipur Village / Mondoloi Village
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.9104 G000 RAG Record No: H040496)
12 Mukherji, Aditi. 2007. The energy-irrigation nexus and its impact on groundwater markets in eastern Indo-Gangetic basin: Evidence from West Bengal, India. Energy Policy, 35: 6413–6430.
Water market ; Prices ; Groundwater irrigation ; Water lifting ; Pumping ; Energy ; Costs ; Households ; Tube wells ; Water quality ; Policy / India / West Bengal / Indo-Gangetic Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.4 G635 MUK Record No: H040508)
South Asia in general and India in particular is heavily dependent on groundwater for supporting its largely agrarian population. Informal pump irrigation services markets have played an important role in providing access to irrigation to millions of small and marginal farmers and had positive equity, efficiency and sustainable impacts in water-abundant regions such as West Bengal. Quite predictably, in such pump lift-based economy, fortunes of energy and irrigation sectors are closely entwined. This has often been called the ‘energy-irrigation’ nexus. There are two major sources of energy for pumping groundwater, viz. electricity and diesel. Most of the current discourse in the field has looked only at the ‘electricity-irrigation’ nexus to the exclusion of the ‘diesel-irrigation nexus’. This paper looks at both these aspects. In doing so, it makes two propositions. First, high flat-rate electricity tariff encourages development of water markets whereby the water buyers—who are mostly small and marginal farmers—benefit through access to irrigation. Second, low rate of rural electrification has forced majority of farmers to depend on diesel for groundwater pumping and the steep increase in diesel prices over the last few years has resulted in economic scarcity of groundwater. This in turn has had serious negative impacts on crop production and farm incomes. Using primary field data from West Bengal, India, this paper makes a case for rapid rural electrification and continuation of high flat-rate tariff, which would in turn support developed groundwater markets and provide access to irrigation to the poor and marginal farmers.
13 Sharma, Bharat R.; Mukherji, Aditi. 2007. Groundwater and agriculture development in South Asia: trends, institutional responses and policy options. Paper presented at the 10th Inter-Regional Conference on Water and Environment 2007 (ENVIROWAT 2007), New Delhi, India, 17-19 October 2007. 14p.
Groundwater irrigation ; Tube wells ; Energy ; Groundwater management ; Governance ; Water quality ; Water pollution ; Salt water intrusion / South Asia / India / Pakistan / Nepal / Bangladesh
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.6.3 G570 SHA Record No: H040580)
14 Mukherji, Aditi. 2008. The paradox of groundwater scarcity amidst plenty and its implications for food security and poverty alleviation in West Bengal, India: What can be done to ameliorate the crisis? Paper presented at the 9th Annual Global Development Network Conference, Brisbane, Australia, 29-31 January 2008. 24p.
Groundwater irrigation ; Water market ; Electrification ; Tube wells ; Policy ; Poverty ; Food security / India / West Bengal
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.6.3 G635 MUK Record No: H040739)
http://www.indiawaterportal.org/data/datastats/wb/Groundwater_Scarcity_West_Bengal_Aditi_IWMI_2007.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H040739.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H040739.pdf
West Bengal is a state of plentiful rainfall, high groundwater potential most of which is available at very shallow depths. It is also one of the poorer states in India. In view of this, many agencies such as Reserve Bank of India and the World Bank have recommended groundwater irrigation as an important tool for rural poverty alleviation. West Bengal had recorded high agricultural growth rates in the early 1990s and groundwater irrigation played an important role in that growth. Unfortunately, this growth could not be sustained. This paper argues that one of the main reasons for recent stagnation in West Bengal’s agriculture is the severe ‘energy-squeeze’ it is experiencing due to overwhelming dependence on diesel pumps, recent escalation in diesel prices and low rates of rural electrification. This paper argues that the current groundwater related policies have a resource conservation bias because they have been inordinately influenced by the dominant discourse on scarcity and depletion – a discourse which does not hold good in the case of West Bengal – a water abundant state steeped in poverty. In view of this paradox of scarcity amidst plenty, this paper based on primary data from 40 villages and 580 respondents makes a case for deploying groundwater irrigation for poverty alleviation through electrification of irrigation tubewells and continuation of high flat rate tariff. Quite contrary to the received wisdom that electricity subsidies benefit only the rural rich and that metering of irrigation tubewell is the only answer, this paper argues that neither is necessarily true in the case of water abundant eastern India where efficient and largely equitable groundwater markets operate.
15 Mukherji, Aditi. 2007. Two faces of energy irrigation nexus in West Bengal, India: high flat rate electricity tariff and escalating diesel prices. Invited paper presented at International Conference on Linkages between Energy and Water Management for Agriculture in Developing Countries, ICRISAT, Hyderabad, 29-30 January 2007. 35p.
Groundwater irrigation ; Water market ; Pumping ; Energy ; Costs ; Water rates ; Pumps ; Policy / India / West Bengal
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.4 G635 MUK Record No: H040742)
16 Mukherji, Aditi. 2007. When wells are welfare and not threat to farmers’ well-being: Groundwater markets and politics in West Bengal, India. Invited paper presented at the Conference on Sustainable Development and Livelihoods, Delhi School of Economics, 6-8 February 2007. 32p.
Groundwater irrigation ; Water market ; Tube wells ; Villages ; Water market ; Contracts ; Prices ; Water rates ; Crop production ; Costs ; Tube wells ; Farmers ; Political aspects / India / West Bengal
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.4 G635 MUK Record No: H040743)
In this paper, I will argue that groundwater irrigation in well-endowed alluvial aquifers of the Ganga-Meghna-Brahmaputra (GMB) is a source of wealth and welfare (and not threat) to its largely poor and agrarian population. I will illustrate this with the case of West Bengal. First, based on secondary data, I will show that groundwater irrigation has been instrumental in agrarian growth in West Bengal. Then, based on primary data collected from 580 respondents in 40 villages in the state, I will specially focus on the beneficial impact of groundwater supported private irrigation services market in distributing benefits of irrigation to those who do not own water extraction mechanisms (WEMs). In doing so, I will capture the spread and extent, as well as functioning and impact of informal groundwater markets. The paper will show that the situation in West Bengal is in sharp contrast to the groundwater situation in many other parts of India such as Gujarat and Tamil Nadu. However, unfortunately, the dominant discourse in the field of groundwater studies in India has been that of depletion and scarcity so much so that the groundwater policies even in a well- endowed state such as West Bengal have been unduly influenced by this dominant discourse. The result has been that of a paradox: little groundwater regulation where resource conditions are precarious (e.g. Gujarat, Tamil Nadu) and strict regulation where little is needed (e.g. West Bengal). This brings us to the arena of politics of policy making, especially how ‘scientific’ information is processed through the lens of politics and vice- versa. Political ecology of groundwater irrigation will be briefly discussed in the last section of this paper.
17 Mukherji, Aditi. 2007. Economics, ethics and politics of groundwater: Evidence from West Bengal, India. Paper presented at 3rd Marcelino Botin Foundation Water Workshop, Santander, Spain, 12-14 June 2007. 27p.
Groundwater irrigation ; Water market ; Ethics ; Economic aspects ; Tube wells ; Villages ; Contracts / India / West Bengal
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.6.3 G635 MUK Record No: H040744)
This paper deals with three different, yet related issues of groundwater use, viz. economics, ethics and politics. One of the most important ethical dilemmas of global groundwater use is that its positive impact on food security, incomes of the poor and poverty alleviation are relatively under-estimated while the negative externalities are often over-emphasized. The first section of this paper deals with this very ethical dilemma by illustrating how the role of groundwater irrigation in sustaining high agricultural growth rates in West Bengal -- an eastern state of India, has been completely over looked in academic discussions so far. Groundwater irrigation has conferred immense economic benefits in terms of increased access to irrigation, higher cropping intensity and productivity. Informal groundwater based irrigation services markets have played an important role in this regard. The second section, based on primary data collected from 580 respondents in 40 villages in the state, specially focuses on groundwater economics and the impact of groundwater supported private irrigation services markets. The third section of the paper concentrates on groundwater politics. It shows that the dominant discourse in the field of groundwater studies in India has been that of depletion and scarcity so much so that the groundwater policies even in a well-endowed state such as West Bengal has been unduly influenced by this dominant discourse. The result has been that of a paradox: little groundwater regulation where resource conditions are precarious (e.g. Gujarat, Tamil Nadu) and strict regulation where little is needed (e.g. West Bengal).
18 Mukherji, Aditi. 2007. Against the dominant discourse: making a case for groundwater irrigation for poverty alleviation in West Bengal, India. Paper presented at the International Conference on Comparative Development, New Delhi, India, 18-20 December 2007. 24p.
Groundwater irrigation ; Tube wells ; Electrical energy ; Water market ; Poverty ; Villages / India / West Bengal
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.6.3 G635 MUK Record No: H040745)
West Bengal is a state of plentiful rainfall and high groundwater potential. It is also one of the poorer states in India. In view of this, many agencies such as RBI and the World Bank have recommended groundwater irrigation as a tool for poverty alleviation. West Bengal had recorded high agricultural growth rates in the early 1990s. Unfortunately, this growth could not be sustained. This paper argues that one of the main reasons for recent stagnation in West Bengal’s agriculture is the severe ‘energy-squeeze’ it is experiencing due to overwhelming dependence on diesel pumps, recent escalation in diesel prices and low rates of rural electrification. This paper argues that the current groundwater related policies have a resource conservation bias because they have been inordinately influenced by the dominant discourse on scarcity and depletion – a discourse which does not hold good in the case of West Bengal – a water abundant state steeped in poverty. In view of this paradox of scarcity amidst plenty, this paper based on primary data from 40 villages and 580 respondents makes a case for deploying groundwater irrigation for poverty alleviation through electrification of irrigation tubewells and continuation of high flat rate tariff. Quite contrary to the received wisdom that electricity subsidies benefit only the rural rich and that metering of irrigation tubewell is the only answer, this paper argues that neither is necessarily true in the case of water abundant eastern India where efficient and largely equitable groundwater markets operate.
19 Mukherji, Aditi. 2008. Poverty, groundwater, electricity and agrarian politics: Understanding the linkages in West Bengal. Transforming India, January-March:8-10.
Groundwater irrigation ; Tube wells ; Electrical energy ; Water market ; Poverty ; Villages ; Political aspects ; Policy ; Farmers / India / West Bengal
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.6.3 G635 MUK Record No: H040746)
20 Villholth, Karen; Mukherji, Aditi. 2007. International training and research course on groundwater governance in Asia: theory and practice. Water Figures Asia: news of IWMI’s work in Asia, 1: 6-7.
Groundwater management ; Governance ; Training ; Research projects ; River basins / Asia / Indo Gangetic Basin / Yellow River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Record No: H040760)
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