Canal Irrigation in British India
Author: Ian Stone
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-07-25
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780521526630
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA detailed study of the local effects of the British Raj's irrigation schemes.
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Agrarian Conditions in Northern India: The United Provinces under British rule, 1860-1900
Author: Elizabeth Whitcombe
Publisher:
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 386
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKManaging Canal Irrigation in India
Author: Sib Ranjan Misra
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9788170228141
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Book Attempts An Account Of The Status Of Water Distribution, Issues Associated With Irrigation Projects, Socio-Economic And Environmental Consquences Of Maldistribution And People`S Participation In Irrigation Projects.
The Finances and Public Works of India from 1869 to 1881
Author: Sir John Strachey
Publisher:
Published: 1882
Total Pages: 500
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn The Waterfront: Water Distribution, Technology And Agrarian Change In A South Indian Canal Irrigation System
Author: Peter P. Mollinga
Publisher: Orient Blackswan
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 472
ISBN-13: 9788125025078
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSeries: Wageningen University Water Resources Series. This book analyses the struggle over water in a large-scale irrigation system in Raichur District, Karnataka, South India. It looks at water control as a simultaneously technical, managerial and socio-political process. The triangle of accommodation of different categories of farmers, irrigation department officials and local politicians, involving water, votes, money, employment, credit and harassment, is documented. The book shows that the physical infrastructure, notably the division structures, are signposts of struggle, expressing the balance of power between farmers and the irrigation department, and that between head- and tail-end farmers. It concludes with a discussion of irrigation reform efforts in India: reasons for the very slow transformation of the sector, and how a more integrated perspective on irrigation could provide directions for the way forward.
Canal Irrigation Systems in India
Author: Umesh Chandra Chaube
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2023-10-04
Total Pages: 621
ISBN-13: 3031428129
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book focuses broadly on the preliminaries of the canal irrigation systems in India with a focus on their operation, maintenance, and management of the canal systems. The chapters in this book are classified under four sections, viz., (i). preliminaries of the canal irrigation systems, (ii) operation of the canal irrigation systems, (iii) maintenance of the canal irrigation systems, and (iv) management of the canal irrigation systems. The preliminaries of the canal irrigation systems include an integrated view of irrigation and agriculture, irrigation management in India: problems, issues, a brief history, and some lessons, irrigation administration, organizational structure for management of irrigated agriculture, and farmers’ participation. The operation of the canal irrigation systems includes the operation of dams and barrages, canal operation, water distribution planning, measurement of flow and sediment in canals, and performance evaluation of the canal irrigation system, use of groundwater in the canal command area. The canal irrigation systems' maintenance includes dams, barrages, related equipment, canals and related structures, field drainage, diagnostic analysis of canal irrigation system, soil and water quality management, soil moisture, and measurement. The management of the canal irrigation systems includes rehabilitation and modernization and a case study on rehabilitation, conjunctive use management, operation, and maintenance budgeting, and financing. The book is expected to be useful for academicians, water practitioners, scientists, water managers, environmentalists, administrators, NGOs, researchers, and students who are actively involved in the operation, maintenance, and management of the canal irrigation system for addressing the challenges being faced in the irrigated agricultural while addressing issues of canal irrigation systems in South East Asia.
Design of Canals
Author: P.K. Swamee
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-04-10
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 8132223225
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book presents firsthand material from the authors on design of hydraulic canals. The book discusses elements of design based on principles of hydraulic flow through canals. It covers optimization of design based on usage requirements and economic constraints. The book includes explicit design equations and design procedures along with design examples for varied cases. With its comprehensive coverage of the principles of hydraulic canal design, this book will prove useful to students, researchers and practicing engineers. End-of-chapter pedagogical elements make it ideal for use in graduate courses on hydraulic structures offered by most civil engineering departments across the world.
Water Conflicts in India
Author: K.J. Joy
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2020-11-29
Total Pages: 552
ISBN-13: 1000084108
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWater conflicts in India have now percolated to every level. They are aggravated by the relative paucity of frameworks, policies and mechanisms to govern the use of water resources. Based on the premise that understanding and documenting different types of water conflict cases in all their complexity would contribute to informed public debate and facilitate their resolution, Forum for Policy Dialogue on Water Conflicts in India, a collaborative initiative of the WWF project ‘Dialogue on Water, Food and Environment’, documented a number of such case studies. One of its kind in India, this book brings together an impressive sixty-three case studies – summarized status of the conflicts, the issues involved and their current position – and gives us a glimpse into ‘the million revolts’ that are brewing around water. While recognizing that each conflict is a microcosm of wider conflicts, the editors have classified these cases into eight broad themes that try to capture the dominant aspect of the conflict. These are: contending water uses; dams and displacement; equity-access-allocations; micro-level conflicts; water quality; trans-boundary conflicts; privatization; sand excavation and mining. With a mix of academics and activists as contributors, the book makes an important contribution to a new discourse on water in general, and water conflicts and conflict resolution in particular.
Irrigation Water Pricing
Author: François Molle
Publisher: CABI
Published: 2007-01-01
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 1845932927
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMuch hope has been vested in pricing as a means of helping to regulate and rationalize water management, notably in the irrigation sector. The pricing of water has often been applied universally, using general and ideological policies, and not considering regional environmental and economic differences. Almost 15 years after the emphasis laid at the Dublin and Rio conferences on treating water as an economic good, a comprehensive review of how such policies have helped manage water resources an irrigation use is necessary. The case-studies presented here offer a reassessment of current policies by evaluating their objectives and constraints and often demonstrating their failure by not considering the regional context. They will therefore contribute to avoiding costly and misplaced reforms and help design water policies that are based on a deeper understanding of the factors which eventually dictate their effectiveness.
India’s Water Futures
Author: K. J. Joy
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2018-11-01
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 0429752253
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen it comes to water, we flush and forget. We use, abuse and almost never recycle. Water sector in India, since the 1990s, has seen some new ideas formalised legally and institutionally, while others are still emerging and evolving. Confronting the reality of current water management strategies, this volume discusses the state of the Indian water sector to uncover solutions that can address the imminent water crises. This book: Analyses the growing water insecurity, increase in demand, inefficiency in water use, and growing inequalities in accessing clean water; Sheds light on water footprint in agricultural, industrial and urban use, pressures on river basin management, depleting groundwater resources, patterns of droughts and floods, watershed based development and waste water and sanitation management; Examines water conflicts, lack of participatory governance mechanisms, and suggests an alternative framework for water regulation and conflict transformation; Highlights the relationship between gender discourse and water governance; Presents an alternative agenda for water sector reforms. This volume, with hopes for a more water secure future, will interest scholars and researchers of development studies, environment studies, public policy, political studies, political sociology, and, NGOs, media and think tanks working in this area.
