Cleaning the Ganga: rethinking irrigation is key
Prioritising aviral dhara (uninterrupted flow) over nirmal dhara (unpolluted flow) can deliver quick outcomes in the Namami Gange Programme. Treating human, municipal and industrial waste released into the Ganga is a long-term project requiring vast resources and political energy, besides behavioura...
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| author | Shah, Tushaar Rajan, Abhishek |
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| description | Prioritising aviral dhara (uninterrupted flow) over nirmal dhara (unpolluted flow) can deliver quick outcomes in the Namami Gange Programme. Treating human, municipal and industrial waste released into the Ganga is a long-term project requiring vast resources and political energy, besides behavioural change on a mass scale. But, Ganga’s dry season flows can be quickly improved by basin-scale conjunctive management of the surface water and groundwater. Irrigation in the Ganga basin today depends on tubewells far more than canals. A multipronged protocol is outlined to manage the old canal network and new hydropower storages in order to maximise irrigation benefits and improve dry season river flows. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1064652023-06-12T19:34:10Z Cleaning the Ganga: rethinking irrigation is key Shah, Tushaar Rajan, Abhishek river basin management irrigation canals water management groundwater irrigation irrigation programs tube well irrigation tributaries sustainable development agriculture government villages Prioritising aviral dhara (uninterrupted flow) over nirmal dhara (unpolluted flow) can deliver quick outcomes in the Namami Gange Programme. Treating human, municipal and industrial waste released into the Ganga is a long-term project requiring vast resources and political energy, besides behavioural change on a mass scale. But, Ganga’s dry season flows can be quickly improved by basin-scale conjunctive management of the surface water and groundwater. Irrigation in the Ganga basin today depends on tubewells far more than canals. A multipronged protocol is outlined to manage the old canal network and new hydropower storages in order to maximise irrigation benefits and improve dry season river flows. 2019-09-28 2020-01-08T04:37:07Z 2020-01-08T04:37:07Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/106465 en Limited Access Shah, Tushaar; Rajan, Abhishek. 2019. Cleaning the Ganga: rethinking irrigation is key. Economic and Political Weekly, 54(39):57-66. |
| spellingShingle | river basin management irrigation canals water management groundwater irrigation irrigation programs tube well irrigation tributaries sustainable development agriculture government villages Shah, Tushaar Rajan, Abhishek Cleaning the Ganga: rethinking irrigation is key |
| title | Cleaning the Ganga: rethinking irrigation is key |
| title_full | Cleaning the Ganga: rethinking irrigation is key |
| title_fullStr | Cleaning the Ganga: rethinking irrigation is key |
| title_full_unstemmed | Cleaning the Ganga: rethinking irrigation is key |
| title_short | Cleaning the Ganga: rethinking irrigation is key |
| title_sort | cleaning the ganga rethinking irrigation is key |
| topic | river basin management irrigation canals water management groundwater irrigation irrigation programs tube well irrigation tributaries sustainable development agriculture government villages |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/106465 |
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