Rural Water Systems for Multiple Uses and Livelihood Security
Coordonnateurs : Kumar M. Dinesh, Kabir Yusuf, James A. J.
Rural Water Systems for Multiple Uses and Livelihood Security covers the technological, institutional, and policy choices for building rural water supply systems that are sustainable from physical, economic, and ecological points-of-view in developing countries. While there is abundant theoretical discourse on designing village water supply schemes as multiple use systems, there is too little understanding of the type of water needs in rural households, how they vary across socio-economic and climatic settings, the extent to which these needs are met by the existing single use water supply schemes, and what mechanisms exist to take care of unmet demands.
The case studies presented in the book from different agro ecological regions quantify these benefits under different agro ecological settings, also examining the economic and environmental trade-offs in maximizing benefits. This book demonstrates how various physical and socio-economic processes alter the hydrology of tanks in rural settings, thereby affecting their performance, also including quantitative criteria that can be used to select tanks suitable for rehabilitation.
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Water, Human Development, Inclusive Growth, and Poverty Alleviation: International Perspectives
Chapter 3. Multiple Water Needs of Rural Households: Studies From Three Agro-Ecologies in Maharashtra
Chapter 4. Multiple-Use Water Systems for Reducing Household Vulnerability to Water Supply Problems
Chapter 5. Sustainability Versus Local Management: Comparative Performance of Rural Water Supply Schemes
Chapter 6. Influence of Climate Variability on Performance of Local Water Bodies: Analysis of Performance of Tanks in Tamil Nadu
Chapter 7. Groundwater Use and Decline in Tank Irrigation? Analysis From Erstwhile Andhra Pradesh
Chapter 8. Reducing Vulnerability to Climate Variability: Forecasting Droughts in Vidarbha Region of Maharashtra, Western India
Chapter 9. Sustainable Access to Treated Drinking Water in Rural India
Chapter 10. Positive Externalities of Surface Irrigation on Farm Wells and Drinking Water Supplies in Large Water Systems: The Case of Sardar Sarovar Project
Chapter 11. Re-Imagining the Future: Experiencing Sustained Drinking Water for All
Chapter 12. Building Resilient Rural Water Systems Under Uncertainties
Yusuf Kabir has 15 years of experience working in water supply and sanitation sector. Yusuf has been with UNICEF since 2007. Prior to that he has worked with organizations like DFID, National Level NGOs, Social and Marketing research consultancy firms like GFK-MODE, ORG India Pvt Ltd, Ramky Infrastructure, SREI Capital Markets, SPAN Consultancy, on issues related with Environmental and livelihood development training and capacity building in the social sector, etc. Yusuf is a commonwealth scholar and a trained policy writer from Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.
A J James has over 20 years of research and work experience in a wide-range of rural development issues in India, including water resource management, watershed development, water and sanitation, water pollution, adaptation to climate change, natural resource management, agricultural development, forestry, and poverty alleviation. Another area of specialization is monitoring and evaluation, where he has helped develop innovative methodologies for community-level assessment of qualitative
- Covers interdisciplinary topics deftly interwoven in the rural context of varying geo-climatic and socioeconomic situations of people in developing areas
- Presents methodologies for quantifying the multiple water use benefits from wetlands and case studies from different agro ecologies using these methodologies to help frame appropriate policies
- Provides analysis of the climatic and socioeconomic factors responsible for changes in hydrology of multiple use wetlands in order to help target multiple use water bodies for rehabilitation
- Includes implementable models for converting single use water supply systems into multiple use systems
Date de parution : 05-2016
Ouvrage de 322 p.
15.2x22.8 cm
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Mots-clés :
Aquifer; Canal irrigation; Catchment hydrology; Catchment land use; Climate variability; Contamination; Decision support tool; Domestic and productive water needs; Drinking water security; Drinking water; Drought; Economic growth; Economic returns; Energy savings; Groundwater draft; Gujarat; Household vulnerability; Human development index; Human poverty index; Income inequality; India; Intersectoral water allocation; Irrigation; Maharashtra; Micro-level institutions; Modern water systems; Multiple use water systems; Multiple-use benefits; Multiple-use services; Multiple-use water system models; Per capita water storage; Per capita water supply; Performance assessment; Public health; Public�private partnership; Real-time monitoring; Reduction in well failures; Resilient rural water systems; Resource sustainability; Resources; Rural water supply scheme; Rural water supply schemes; Rural water supply; Social enterprise; Stream flows; Summer water scarcity; Sustainable water use index; Sustainable; Tamil Nadu; Tank hydrology; Tanks; Techno-institutional model; The five pillars of change; Traditional water systems; Treated drinking water; Vidarbha; Vulnerability index; Water distribution system; Water management; Water scarcity; Water security; Water; Well density; Well irrigation; Western India