Tushaar Shah, Aditi Deb Roy, Asad Sarwar Qureshi, Jinxia Wang
This article suggests that Asia’s groundwater socio‐ecology is at an impasse. Rapid growth in groundwater irrigation in South Asia and the North China plains during the period 1970–95 has been the main driver of the agrarian boom in these regions. India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and China account for th...
Tushaar Shah
"In 1947, British India - the part of South Asia that is today's India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh - emerged from the colonial era with the world's largest centrally managed canal irrigation infrastructure. However, as vividly illustrated by Tushaar Shah, the orderly irrigation economy that saved mill...
Tushaar Shah, Omvir Singh, Aditi Mukherji
Tushaar Shah
In 1947, British India-the part of South Asia that is today's India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh-emerged from the colonial era with the world's largest centrally managed canal irrigation infrastructure. However, as vividly illustrated by Tushaar Shah, the orderly irrigation economy that saved millions ...
Tushaar Shah, Muhammad Mehboob Alam, M. Dinesh Kumar, R. K. Nagar et al.
An assessment of the social impact of treadle pump technology for manual irrigation in eastern India, the Nepal Terai, and Bangladesh, South Asia's so-called "poverty square." Treadle pump technology can be a powerful tool for poverty reduction in this region. It "self-selects" the poor, and puts to...
List of Tables. List of Figures. List of Maps. List of Abbreviations. Foreword. Acknowledgements. Introduction: An Agenda for Pluralistic and Integrated Framework for Policies in South Asia Anjal Prakash, Sreoshi Singh, Chanda Gurung Goodrich and S. Janakarajan Part I. Conceptual Framework for Resou...
Tushaar Shah
Abstract Using water-energy-food-environment (WEFE) nexus as the prism, this review explores evolution of groundwater governance in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, China, Bangladesh and India – which together account for two-thirds of the global groundwater-irrigated area. Global discourse has blamed wi...
Tushaar Shah
Irrigation has always been central to the life and society in the plains of South Asia, i.e., India, Pakistan, southern Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. India’s water policy-making is yet to fully factor in the epochal transformation in the way its farmers water their crops, and successive governmen...
Peter P. Mollinga
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION Introduction - Peter P Mollinga1 Water for Food Production in South Asia - C W J Roest An Overview of ICID Draft Country Papers Water Against Poverty - Tushaar Shah Livelihood-oriented Water Resource Management Water for Food and Environment in the Mountains of the Hindu Kush-...
Tushaar Shah, Mark Giordano
Himalayan Water Security:A South Asian Perspective Tushaar Shah (bio) and Mark Giordano (bio) South Asia has emerged during recent decades as a major theater of tension and conflict around shared rivers. The region is made up of predominantly rural, poor, and agrarian societies. While in recent year...
Tushaar Shah, Chittaranjan Ray, Uma Lele
For millennia, the Ganges River, holy to Hindus, has provided livelihoods, food, and water for Nepal, India, and Bangladesh. Last month, one of India's leading environmental activists died after a 111-day hunger strike, failing to evoke changes to save India's most revered river (known as Ganga). Af...
Tushaar Shah, Shilp Verma, Rai, Gyan Prakash, Neha Durga
The plains of the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) basin, encompassing Bangladesh, Nepal terai and eastern India, are home to a quarter of the world’s rural poor. The basin’s copious aquifers are the biggest hope for millions of smallholders locked into unviable agriculture. \nStudies suggest shal...
Aditi Mukherji, Tushaar Shah
Besides India, there are a few other countries like Mexico, Spain, Pakistan, Bangladesh and China which also make intensive use of groundwater. This highlight reviews groundwater institutions and policies in these countries, with a special focus on the interlinkages between energy and groundwater. I...
Tushaar Shah
At less than 1000 km3/year, world’s annual use of groundwater is 1.5 % of renewable water resource but contributes a lion’s share of water-induced human welfare. Global groundwater use however has increased manifold in the past 50 years; and human race has never had to manage groundwater use on such...
Tushaar Shah
Using water-energy-food-environment (WEFE) nexus as the prism, this review explores evolution of groundwater governance in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, China, Bangladesh and India – which together account for two-thirds of the global groundwater-irrigated area. Global discourse has blamed widespread ...