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1 Srinivasan, V.; Karunakaran, K.; Venugopal, K.; Raja, G. 1995. Water resource assessment of agricultural watersheds through hydrologic simulation using hydro-C1-A case study. Water Resources Journal, 185:84-90.
Water resource management ; Hydrology ; Case studies ; Watersheds ; River basins ; Computer techniques / India / Pallikaranai / Vaniyanchavadi / Chengai District
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: PER Record No: H018089)
2 Palaniappan, M.; Gleick, P. H.; Hunt, C.; Srinivasan, V.. 2004. Water privatization principles and practices. In Gleik, P. H., The world’s water 2004-2005: The biennial report on freshwater Resources. Washington, DC, USA: Island Press. pp.45-77.
Water supply ; Domestic water ; Water quality ; Standards ; Water rates ; Monitoring ; Maintenance ; Public ownership ; Water law ; Privatization ; Contracts ; Decision making / Argentina / Honduras / Bolivia / Chile / Singapore / Ivory Coast / Pakistan / Netherlands
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 GLE Record No: H036402)
3 Gleick, P. H.; Srinivasan, V.; Henges-Jeck, C.; Wolff, G. 2004. Urban water conservation: A case study of commercial and industrial water use in California. In Gleik, P. H., The world’s water 2004-2005: The biennial report on freshwater Resources. Washington, DC, USA: Island Press. pp.131-156.
Water conservation ; Urbanization ; Domestic water ; Industrialization ; Water use ; Estimation / USA / California
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 GLE Record No: H036405)
4 Srinivasan, V.; Suresh Kumar, D.; Chinnasamy, P.; Sulagna, S.; Sakthivel, D.; Paramasivam, P.; Lele, S. 2014. Water management in the Noyyal River basin: a situation analysis. Bangalore, India: Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment. 48p. (Environment and Development Discussion Paper 2)
Water management ; River basins ; Water availability ; Water quality ; Watersheds ; Water scarcity ; Surface water ; Drinking water ; Domestic water ; Hydrology ; Demography ; Land use ; Sustainability ; Agricultural sector ; Government departments ; Institutions ; Pumping ; Wells ; Public health ; Environmental flows ; Households ; Farmers / India / Tamil Nadu / Noyyal River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H046359)
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5 Lele, S.; Srinivasan, V; Thomas, B. K.; Jamwal, P. 2018. Adapting to climate change in rapidly urbanizing river basins: insights from a multiple-concerns, multiple-stressors, and multi-level approach. Water International, 43(2):281-304. (Special issue: Climate Change and Adaptive Water Management: Innovative Solutions from the Global South). [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2017.1416442]
Climate change adaptation ; River basins ; Urbanization ; Households ; Resilience ; Frameworks ; Water quality ; Public health ; Water supply ; Upstream ; Downstream ; Watersheds ; Agriculture ; Equity ; Sustainability / India / Cauvery River / Arkavathy Sub-Basin / Noyyal Sub-Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048593)
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Much of the research on climate change adaptation in rapidly urbanizing developing regions focuses primarily on adaptation or resilience as the goal, assumes that climate change is the major stressor, and focuses on the household or the city as the unit of analysis. In this article, we use findings from two rapidly urbanizing sub-basins of the Cauvery River in southern India (the Arkavathy and Noyyal sub-basins) to argue for a broader analytic and policy framework that explicitly considers multiple normative concerns and stressors, and uses the entire watershed as the unit of analysis to address the climate–water interaction.
6 Lele, S.; Madhyastha, K.; Sulagna, S.; Dhavamani, R.; Srinivasan, V.. 2018. Match, don’t mix: implications of institutional and technical service modalities for water governance outcomes in South Indian small towns. Water Policy, 20(S1):12-35. (Special issue: Water Services in Small Towns - Experiences from the Global South). [doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wp.2018.002]
Water resources ; Water governance ; Urban areas ; Towns ; Water supply ; Water delivery ; Groundwater ; Corporate culture ; Technology ; Financing ; Biophysics ; Sustainability ; Equity / South India / Karnataka / Tamil Nadu / Nelamangala / Ramanagara / Kannampalayam / Palladam
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048727)
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This paper seeks to contribute to the limited literature on water governance in small towns in India. For assessing water governance, we propose a broad framework encompassing adequacy and affordability, equity, sustainability and responsiveness. Analytically, the concept of ‘service modality’ is expanded to include not only institutional arrangements but also water resource deployment, and placed within a framework that includes multiple contextual variables as well. We use this framework to carry out an inductive analysis by comparing water service delivery and governance in four small towns across two states (Karnataka and Tamil Nadu) in southern India. Apart from differences in size, the towns differ in the institutional arrangements – from fully municipal management to a combination to complete para-statal management – and in the deployment of water resources – only ground water to a mixed supply of ground and surface water (dual sourcing). Data were gathered using a combination of household surveys, metering, records, and interviews. Dual sourcing resulted in adequate supply and optimization vis-à-vis end uses. Inter-household inequity is driven by socio-economic differences amongst households, but can be mitigated to an extent by increasing public tap density. But water resource use is not physically or financially sustainable. The responsiveness to citizen needs was significantly higher when the distribution was done by the local governments. Separation of roles, with para-statals providing bulk supply of surface water, and local governments managing the distribution of this and groundwater, may be an optimal service modality.
7 Wutich, A.; Cardenas, J. C.; Pahl-Wostl, C.; Rauschmayer, F.; Schleyer, C.; Srinivasan, V.; Suhardiman, Diana; Tallis, H.; Zwarteveen, M. 2018. Integrating sustainability, justice and diversity?: opportunities and challenges for inclusively framing water research. In S. Lele, S. Brondizio, J. Byrne, G. Mace, J. Martinez-Alier (Eds.), Rethinking environmentalism: linking justice, sustainability and diversity. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. pp.251-286.
Integrated management ; Water resources ; Water management ; Water footprint ; Sustainability ; Diversification ; Farming systems ; Research ; Frames ; River basin management ; Lakes ; Human rights ; Ecosystem services ; Wetlands ; Case studies / Burkina Faso / Nepal / Kenya / Peru / Bolivia / Europ / Romania / USA / Lake Naivasha Basin / Mollepata / Cochabamba / Lower Danube River / Tisza River / Arizona
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048931)
The twentieth century has seen a dramatic increase in human uses of and human impacts on water resources, increasing competition over water as well as depleting or deteriorating its availability. Given its importance to human life and livelihoods, water is becoming one of the major foci of environmental research. The coincidence of water scarcity with poverty in many parts of the world makes it a focal point of international development efforts. With engineering thinking dominating over past decades, water management research has embraced more integrative approaches triggered by an increasing awareness of failures that focused on narrow single issues or technical solutions to address the complex challenges of sustainable water management. This chapter explores whether, when, and how more inclusive framings might enable more socially relevant and impactful research, and lead to more effective action. Discussion begins by establishing what a frame is and then de ning what is meant by an “inclusive frame” for interdisciplinary research on environmental problems. Seven frames in water research are examined; emphasis is given to how framings are driven by differences in normative and theoretical positions, which yields very different views on progress and how best to achieve it. Next, the use of more inclusive frames in academic or research contexts is explored using two examples which incorporate multiple normative and theoretical positions. Barriers encountered by academics and researchers, as they attempt to use inclusive frames, are then examined. To explore how inclusive frames can be used to address real-world problems, three cases highlight the possibilities and challenges in applying inclusive frames to research with the goal of informing action and practice.
8 Patil, V. S.; Thomas, B. K.; Lele, S.; Eswar, M.; Srinivasan, V.. 2019. Adapting or chasing water?: crop choice and farmers’ responses to water stress in peri-urban Bangalore, India. Irrigation and Drainage, 68(2):140-151. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ird.2291]
Water stress ; Irrigated farming ; Farmers attitudes ; Crops ; Periurban areas ; Groundwater ; Boreholes ; Ownership ; Urbanization ; Living standards ; Villages ; Econometric models / India / Bangalore / Arkavathy Sub-Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049210)
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Unregulated groundwater extraction has led to declining groundwater tables and increasing water scarcity in the Indian subcontinent. Understanding how farmers respond to this scarcity is important from multiple perspectives—equity in access, livelihood security and resource sustainability. We present a case from the rapidly urbanizing Arkavathy sub-basin near Bangalore city in southern India where irrigation is fully groundwater dependent. Using cross-sectional data from a stratified random sample of 333 farmers from 15 villages, we investigated the factors that determine their choice of crops under conditions of water scarcity and urbanization. Binary logit analysis showed that farmers with a large landholding respond by tapping deep groundwater using borewells. Multinomial logit analysis revealed that access to groundwater, variation in the proximity to the product market (city) and labour availability influence crop choice decisions. We observe that current responses indicate what has been characterized in the literature as chasing strategies. These largely favour well-off farmers and hence are inequitable. While the choice of water-intensive crops and unregulated pumping have aggravated water stress, the uptake of watersaving technologies among irrigated farmers has been low, showing that resource sustainability may not be a concern where non-farm diversification opportunities exist.
9 Wable, P. S.; Garg, K. K.; Nune, R; Venkataradha, A.; Anantha, K. H.; Srinivasan, V.; Ragab, R.; Rowan, J.; Keller, V.; Majumdar, P.; Rees, G.; Singh, R.; Dixit, S. 2022. Impact of agricultural water management interventions on upstream-downstream trade-offs in the Upper Cauvery Catchment, southern India: a modelling study. Irrigation and Drainage, 71(2):472-494. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ird.2662]
Agriculture ; Water management ; Catchment areas ; Upstream ; Downstream ; Water balance ; Water reservoirs ; Runoff ; Land use ; Land cover ; Groundwater ; Water storage ; Rain ; Models / India / Karnataka / Upper Cauvery Catchment
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051055)
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The Cauvery basin in southern India is experiencing transboundary issues due to increasing water demand. This study analysed water balance components and the impact of agricultural water management (AWM) interventions in the upper Cauvery catchment of the Cauvery basin. Results showed that the study catchment receives an average of 1280 mm of annual rainfall. Of this, 29% (370 mm) flows downstream, 54% (700 mm) contributes to evapotranspiration (ET) and 17% (215 mm) contributes to groundwater recharge and surface storage. Rainfall varies from 700 to 5400 mm and the Western Ghats (mountain pass) are the main source of freshwater generation. The estimated ET in different catchments ranged from 500 to 900 mm per annum. An increase in the allocation of fresh water supplied by all three reservoirs (Hemavathi, Harangi and KRS) was observed in the canal command areas, from 1450 million cubic metres (MCM) yr ¹ in 1971–1980 to 3800 MCM yr ¹ in 2001–2010. AWM interventions harvested 140–160 MCM (13–20 mm) of surface runoff upstream of the upper Cauvery and reduced inflow into the Krishnaraja Sagar reservoir by 2–6%. The study findings are useful for designing and planning suitable water management interventions at basin scale.
10 Prayag, A. G.; Zhou, Y.; Srinivasan, V.; Stigter, T.; Verzijl, A. 2023. Assessing the impact of groundwater abstractions on aquifer depletion in the Cauvery Delta, India. Agricultural Water Management, 279:108191. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2023.108191]
Aquifers ; Groundwater depletion ; Groundwater extraction ; Salinity ; Precipitation ; Cropping patterns ; Models ; Groundwater flow ; Groundwater table ; Sustainability / India / Tamil Nadu / Cauvery Delta
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051698)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378377423000562/pdfft?md5=60afde546f528fdcf2ab2bf4d60c5fe5&pid=1-s2.0-S0378377423000562-main.pdf
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Many of the world’s deltas are highly productive areas for agriculture as well as important places of socio-economic development but are currently under stress. This study assesses the impacts of stresses on groundwater pumping, changing cropping patterns, and saltwater intrusion on groundwater resources in the Cauvery Delta in Tamil Nadu, India. A transient groundwater flow model of the delta was constructed for this assessment. The historical changes in groundwater resources in response to decreasing irrigation canal flows and increasing groundwater abstractions were assessed for the past 30 years. Furthermore, the model was used to formulate and analyze future sustainable groundwater development scenarios. Farmers’ narratives about a drying delta, as they experience water scarcity and quality issues most closely, were ascertained in the research. Farmers have abandoned many shallow wells in their fields. The model simulation shows groundwater levels are decreasing and aquifer storage depleting. Furthermore, salinization has increased, with continuous declining groundwater levels in the deep aquifer from 1990 to 2019. A more robust hydro-chemical assessment and further modeling of seawater intrusion are needed to better assess the sources and distribution of groundwater salinity. The pathway for future sustainability requires enhancing groundwater recharge in the shallow aquifer and controlling groundwater abstraction in the deep aquifers.
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