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Hard-cover • 2009
Pages: 264
ISBN: 9788171886869
US$49.95
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Water Security and Management

Ecological Imperatives and Policy Options

V. Ratna Reddy

About the Book

<p>The proposed book is an attempt towards an integrated approach for water security and management in the backdrop of irrigation reforms in Andhra Pradesh. In the absence of an integrated approach, ‘water security’ would remain a distant dream. Water security ensures equity and sustainability. In the context of scarcity, allocation of water should be governed by optimality rather than productivity. For, optimality combines economic as well as social benefits. Water security is indispensable for addressing inter and intra-regional as well as inter-household inequalities in growth and development and sustaining the ecological balance. In fragile resource regions, environmental degradation is seen as a cause of household food insecurity and as a consequence of water insecurity. That is food security is linked to water security through environmental degradation in these regions.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>The book is based on the author’s work on four important aspects of irrigation management, namely, canals, tanks, wells, and water pollution. The study emanates from intensive field research covering different agro-climatic locations in Andhra Pradesh. The study highlights the inter-linkages between different sources of irrigation as well as approaches to irrigation management and argues for an integrated approach for achieving water security.</p>

About the Author(s) / Editor(s)

V. Ratna Reddy, Professor (senior fellow) at the Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Hyderabad, India (presently on leave) is Director, Livelihoods and Natural Resource Management Institute, Hyderabad. An economist by training, his current research interests include natural resources and environmental economics, sustainable livelihoods, new institutional economics and agricultural policy. He has more than hundred publications in International and Indian Journals. He has published five books, including "User Valuation of Renewable Natural Resources: The User Perspective" and "Managing Water Resources" (jointly with S. Mahendra Dev).

Contents in Detail

List of Tables, Figures and Appendix

 

Preface

 

 

 

1. Water: An Ecological Perspective


     Introduction

 

     Irrigation: Development and
     Degradation

 

     Water and Public Policy

 

     Need, Approach and Context

 

     Structure of the Book

 

 

 

 

2. Irrigation Expenditure: Continuing the
     Imbalance


     Introduction

 

     Potential and Status of Water Resources
     in Andhra Pradesh

 

     Trends in Irrigation Expenditure in
     Andhra Pradesh

 

     Pattern of Public Expenditure

 

     Conclusions

 

 

 

 

 

3. The ‘Big Push’: New Strategy for Irrigation Development and Distribution


     Introduction

 

     Irrigation Development and Distribution in

 

     Andhra Pradesh: Past and Present

 

     Irrigation Development and Distribution: Future

 

     Bridging the Disparities: Costs and Constraints

 

     Conclusions

 

 

 

 

 


4. Managing the Surface Systems: Lessons for Formalisation

 

     Background

 

     Setting

 

     Framework and Approach

 

     Structure, Organisation and Functioning
     of WUAs

 

     Effectiveness of WUAs: Household Level
     Assessment

 

     Informal versus Formal Institutions

 

     Effectiveness of WUAs: Formal versus Informal

 

     Irrigation Reforms in Andhra Pradesh: A Missed
     Opportunity?

 

 

 

 

 

5. Neglect of Natural Capital: Rehabilitation and
     Management of Tank Systems


     Background

 

     Setting

 

     Approach

 

     Profile of the Sample Villages

 

     Impact of Tank Restoration: Economic and Ecological

 

     Ecological Impact

 

     Tank Rehabilitation: A Cost-Benefit Analysis

 

     Need for Sustaining the Systems

 

     Lessons for Future

 

 

 

 

 

 

6. Groundwater: Development and Degradation


     Background

 

     Conceptual Framework

 

     Empirical Approach

 

     Resource Degradation and Externalities

 

     Costs of Degradation Externalities

 

     Public Policy and Environment

 

 

 

 

 


7. Who Cares for Water Use Efficiency? Adoption of
     System of Rice Intensification (SRI)

 

     Background

 

     Data and Methods

 

     Results and Discussion

 

     Conclusions

 

 

 

 

 


8. Water Quality: The Blind Spot


     Introduction

 

     Data and Methodology

 

     Impact of Industrial Pollution: An Economic Analysis

 

     Water Pollution: Policy and Institutional Failure

 

 

 

 

 

9. Water Security and Management: Need for
     an Integrated Approach


     Introduction

 

     Imbalances in Resource Management

 

     Water: Failure from All Fronts

 

     Towards an Integrated Approach

 

References

 

Index


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