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Indian Irrigation in Transition - Tushaar Shah

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<strong>Irrigation</strong> Management Challenges: Then and Now<br />

• 1960’s<br />

• Invest<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> public and<br />

community irrigation<br />

• Command Area Development<br />

• Control of water logg<strong>in</strong>g and<br />

sal<strong>in</strong>ization<br />

• F<strong>in</strong>ancial susta<strong>in</strong>ability of<br />

irrigation systems<br />

• Modernization of large and small<br />

surface systems<br />

• Efficiency and equity <strong>in</strong> water<br />

distribution<br />

• Reorient<strong>in</strong>g irrigation<br />

bureaucracy<br />

• Farmer management<br />

• PIM/IMT<br />

• 2000+<br />

• Groundwater regulation<br />

• Arrest<strong>in</strong>g and revers<strong>in</strong>g<br />

groundwater depletion;<br />

• Groundwater quality<br />

• Fluoride and arsenic<br />

contam<strong>in</strong>ation<br />

• Electricity subsidies<br />

• Energy efficiency of irrigation<br />

• Water productivity<br />

• Hydro-climatic change<br />

• Groundwater recharge<br />

• Integrat<strong>in</strong>g surface and<br />

groundwater storages

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