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Book SynopsisOne of the key features of agricultural development in the last five decades has been intensive groundwater use in the Indo-Gangetic Basin (Pakistan, India, Nepal and Bangladesh) and in the Yellow River Basin (China). Groundwater irrigates almost 60% of the net irrigated area in South Asia and 70% in the north China plains. Groundwater use for agriculture is still increasing. Despite the growing significance of groundwater to agricultural growth, food security and rural livelihoods globally, and at the same time significant signs of limitations and constraints for further use, knowledge of the subject has remained limited. The subject includes the wider issues of socioeconomic impacts, political economy, groundwater institutions, access to other resources like energy and land, approaches to resource governance and management and specifically integrating evidence-based science into management decisions.
This book addresses these information shortfalls and provides a consolidate
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If the world's water crisis is "mainly a crisis of governance", groundwater represents the grimmest side of this crisis in Asia. - Tushaar Shah, International Water Management Institute, India
Table of ContentsSection 1: INTRODUCTION 1. The role of groundwater in agriculture, livelihoods, and rural poverty alleviation in the Indo-Gangetic and yellow river basins: A review K.G. Villholth, A. Mukherji, B.R. Sharma and J. Wang 2. Towards better management of groundwater resources - lessons from an integrated capacity building project in the Indo-Gangetic and Yellow River basins K.G. Villholth 3. A comparative analysis of the hydrogeology of the Indus-Gangetic and Yellow River basins S.K. Jain, B.R. Sharma, A. Zahid, M. Jin, J.L. Shreshtha, V. Kumar, S.P. Rai, J.Hu, Y. Luo, and D. Sharma 4. Groundwater resource issues and the socio-economic implications of groundwater use: Evidence from Punjab, Pakistan S.M. Kori, A. Rehman, I. Ahmed, A. Nazeer and A.H. KhanSection 2: REGION SPECIFIC CASE STUDIES 5. Groundwater resources and the impact of groundwater sharing institutions: Insights from Indian Punjab V. Selvi, D. Machiwal, F. Shaheen and B.R. Sharma 6. Groundwater resource conditions, socio-economic impacts and policy-instituional options: A case study of Vaishali district of Bihar, India A. Islam and R.S. Gautam 7. Groundwater resource conditions and groundwater sharing institutions: Evidence from Eastern Indo-Gangetic basin, India K.H. Anantha, D.R. Sena and A. Mukherji 8. The impact of shallow tubewells on irrigation water availability, access, crop productivity and farmers’ income in the lower gangetic plain of Bangladesh A. Zahid, M.A. Haque, M.S. Islam and M.A.F.M.R. Hasan 9. Reaching the poor: Effectiveness of the current shallow tubewell policy in Nepal D.R. Kansakar, D.R. Pant and J.P. Chaudhary 10. Agricultural groundwater issues in North China: A case study from Zhengzhou Municipal Area R. Sun, Y. Liu, Y. Qian and K.G. Villholth 11. Groundwater use and its management: Policy and institutional options in rural areas of North China J. Cao, X. Cheng and X. LiSection 3: THEMATIC ISSUES ON GROUNDWATER IRRIGATION 12. Anthropological perspectives on groundwater irrigation: Ethnographic evidence from a village in Bist Doab, Punjab R. Tiwary and J.L. Sabatier 13. Social regulation of groundwater and its relevance to the existingregulatory framework in Andhra Pradesh, India R.V. Rama Mohan 14. Using the living wisdom of well drillers to construct digital groundwater data bases across Indo-Gangetic basin S. Krishnan, A. Islam, D. Machiwal, D.R. Sena and K.G. Villholth 15. Crop per volume of diesel? The energy-squeeze on India’s small-holder irrigation T. Shah, A. Dasgupta, R. Chaubey, M. Satpathy and Y. Singh 16. Managing the energy-irrigation nexus in West Bengal, India A. Mukherji, P.S. Banerjee and S. Daschowdhury 17. Groundwater markets in the North China plain: Impact on irrigation water use, crop yields and farmer income L. Zhang, J. Wang, J. Huang, S. Rozelle and Q. Huang
