INDIA'S WATER FUTURES: EMERGENT IDEAS AND PATHWAYS

When it comes to water, we flush and forget. We use, abuse and almost never recycle. Water sector in India, since the 1990s, has seen some new ideas formalised legally and institutionally, while others are still emerging and evolving. Confronting the reality of current water management strategies, this volume discusses the state of the Indian water sector to uncover solutions that can address the imminent water crises. This book: 1. Analyses the growing water insecurity, increase in demand, inefficiency in water use, and growing inequalities in accessing clean water; 2. Sheds light on water footprint in agricultural, industrial and urban use, pressures on river basin management, depleting groundwater resources, patterns of droughts and floods, watershed based development and waste water and sanitation management;.....