Climate change and water supplies: options for sustaining tank irrigation potential in India
Climate change will affect water supplies in south Asia, where high-intensity floods and droughts are expected in the future. Increasing water storage is a key adaptation strategy, and the experience of irrigation tanks illustrates both the potential and challenges of this adaptation response. Altho...
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| author | Kuppannan, Palanisami Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S. Giordano, Mark |
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| description | Climate change will affect water supplies in south Asia, where high-intensity floods and droughts are expected in the future. Increasing water storage is a key adaptation strategy, and the experience of irrigation tanks illustrates both the potential and challenges of this adaptation response. Although there are over 2,08,000 tanks in India, irrigating about 2.3 million hectares in 2000-01, the net area irrigated by tanks declined by 29% between 1990-91 and 2000-01 and by 32% between 2001 and 2008. This paper reviews the challenges faced by tank irrigation and examines options for improving their performance - revenue mobilisation through multiple use of tanks, augmenting groundwater resources in the tanks, integrating social forestry and desilting, and tank modernisation. |
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| spelling | CGSpace405132025-08-01T13:51:50Z Climate change and water supplies: options for sustaining tank irrigation potential in India Kuppannan, Palanisami Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S. Giordano, Mark climate change adaptation water storage tank irrigation modernization rehabilitation water costs siltation maintenance social forestry Climate change will affect water supplies in south Asia, where high-intensity floods and droughts are expected in the future. Increasing water storage is a key adaptation strategy, and the experience of irrigation tanks illustrates both the potential and challenges of this adaptation response. Although there are over 2,08,000 tanks in India, irrigating about 2.3 million hectares in 2000-01, the net area irrigated by tanks declined by 29% between 1990-91 and 2000-01 and by 32% between 2001 and 2008. This paper reviews the challenges faced by tank irrigation and examines options for improving their performance - revenue mobilisation through multiple use of tanks, augmenting groundwater resources in the tanks, integrating social forestry and desilting, and tank modernisation. 2010 2014-06-13T14:47:49Z 2014-06-13T14:47:49Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/40513 en Limited Access Kuppannan, Palanisami; Meinzen-Dick, R.; Giordano, Mark. 2010. Climate change and water supplies: options for sustaining tank irrigation potential in India. Economic and Political Weekly, 45(26-27):183-190. |
| spellingShingle | climate change adaptation water storage tank irrigation modernization rehabilitation water costs siltation maintenance social forestry Kuppannan, Palanisami Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S. Giordano, Mark Climate change and water supplies: options for sustaining tank irrigation potential in India |
| title | Climate change and water supplies: options for sustaining tank irrigation potential in India |
| title_full | Climate change and water supplies: options for sustaining tank irrigation potential in India |
| title_fullStr | Climate change and water supplies: options for sustaining tank irrigation potential in India |
| title_full_unstemmed | Climate change and water supplies: options for sustaining tank irrigation potential in India |
| title_short | Climate change and water supplies: options for sustaining tank irrigation potential in India |
| title_sort | climate change and water supplies options for sustaining tank irrigation potential in india |
| topic | climate change adaptation water storage tank irrigation modernization rehabilitation water costs siltation maintenance social forestry |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/40513 |
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