India's water future to 2025-2050: business-as-usual scenario and deviations
With a rapidly expanding economy many changes are taking place in India today. The business-as-usual (BAU) scenario, which assumes the continuation of current trends of key water demand drivers, will meet the future food demand. However, it leads to a severe regional water crisis by 2050, where many...
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| author | Amarasinghe, Upali A. Shah, Tushaar Turral, Hugh Anand, B.K. |
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| description | With a rapidly expanding economy many changes are taking place in India today. The business-as-usual (BAU) scenario, which assumes the continuation of current trends of key water demand drivers, will meet the future food demand. However, it leads to a severe regional water crisis by 2050, where many river basins will reach closure, will be physically water-scarce and will have regions with severely overexploited groundwater resources. While the alternative scenarios of water demand show both optimistic and pessimistic water futures, the scenario with additional productivity growth is the most optimistic, with significant scope for reducing future water demand. |
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| spelling | CGSpace399102025-11-07T08:47:16Z India's water future to 2025-2050: business-as-usual scenario and deviations Amarasinghe, Upali A. Shah, Tushaar Turral, Hugh Anand, B.K. water demand water supply population growth crop production crop yield groundwater irrigation food security With a rapidly expanding economy many changes are taking place in India today. The business-as-usual (BAU) scenario, which assumes the continuation of current trends of key water demand drivers, will meet the future food demand. However, it leads to a severe regional water crisis by 2050, where many river basins will reach closure, will be physically water-scarce and will have regions with severely overexploited groundwater resources. While the alternative scenarios of water demand show both optimistic and pessimistic water futures, the scenario with additional productivity growth is the most optimistic, with significant scope for reducing future water demand. 2007 2014-06-13T14:29:40Z 2014-06-13T14:29:40Z Report https://hdl.handle.net/10568/39910 en Open Access application/pdf International Water Management Institute Amarasinghe, Upali; Shah, Tushaar; Turral, Hugh; Anand, B. K. 2007. India?s water future to 2025-2050: business-as-usual scenario and deviations. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 41p. (IWMI Research Report 123) |
| spellingShingle | water demand water supply population growth crop production crop yield groundwater irrigation food security Amarasinghe, Upali A. Shah, Tushaar Turral, Hugh Anand, B.K. India's water future to 2025-2050: business-as-usual scenario and deviations |
| title | India's water future to 2025-2050: business-as-usual scenario and deviations |
| title_full | India's water future to 2025-2050: business-as-usual scenario and deviations |
| title_fullStr | India's water future to 2025-2050: business-as-usual scenario and deviations |
| title_full_unstemmed | India's water future to 2025-2050: business-as-usual scenario and deviations |
| title_short | India's water future to 2025-2050: business-as-usual scenario and deviations |
| title_sort | india s water future to 2025 2050 business as usual scenario and deviations |
| topic | water demand water supply population growth crop production crop yield groundwater irrigation food security |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/39910 |
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