Indian Irrigation in Transition - Tushaar Shah
Indian Irrigation in Transition - Tushaar Shah
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