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Water Resource Management presents the most intractable challenge for planners and policymakers. Considering the finite nature, increasing demand and deteriorating quality of freshwater, the need to protect and manage this resource properly is crucial. To succeed in the face of this biggest threat to human health and environmental degradation, an integrated approach to freshwater and waste water management is required, which involves innovative and region-specific pathways along with community participation. To attain better development outcomes, water must be made an integral part of all planning and management.

This book attempts to address gamut of water management issues with a special focus on India, ranging from waste water and storm water management to water use efficiency and innovations in water management using data technology. The volume contains twenty excellent, insightful and up-to-date articles broadly categorized under following sub-themes:

-Governance Issues

-Climate Change and Water Resources

-Water Resource Development

-Demand Management

-Agriculture and Water Management.

Contents: 1. Introduction/Alpana Kateja. I. Governance Issues: 2. Water and the Institutions: A Systemic Approach to Water Management in India/Samanta Sahu. 3. Realizing Water Resource Management in India: Localizing Governance, Geospatial Data and Enabling Environment for Development/J.R. Sharma and A.K. Bera. 4. Aquifer Characterization and its Significance in Water Resource Management/R.K. Kushwaha, M.K. Pandit, P.K. Parchure and Wasim Ahmad. 5. Water Security and Management Through Water Budgeting/R.N. Shukla and B.O. Pandit. 6. PublicPrivate Partnership in Water Resource Management/Sandeep Narula. II. Climate Change and Water Resources: 7. Water Management, Climate Change and Biodiversity/Sharat Kumar Palita and Debabrata Panda. 8. Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources and Linkage to Water Security/Swatantra Kumar, Dubey, Devesh Sharma and Laxmi Kant Sharma. III. Water Resource Development: 9. Reclaimed Water: Alternative and Efficient Water Supply Option/Alpana Kateja. 10. Inter-Basin Water Transfer for Optimal Utilization of Water/Poorvi Medatwal. 11. Storm Water Management: Key to Self-sustaining Urban Water Systems/Jaishree. 12. Water Harvesting: Traditional Methods and Present Practices/R.C. Mathur. 13. Integrated Water Resource Management in Rajasthan/M.L. Jhanwar. IV. Demand Management: 14. Sustainable Use of Virtual Water in a Global Framework/Maniklal Adhikary and Samrat Chowdhuri. 15. Building a Water-Literate Society for Urban Water Management in Rajasthan/Suneet Sethi. 16. Water ATMs: A Boon for Rajasthan/Harsh Bajpai and Animesh Kumar. V. Agriculture and Water Management: 17. Water Footprint: Thinking Ahead/Mohammad Suhail. 18. Concept of Irrigation Index: Benchmarking of Irrigation Projects/R.M. Mathur. 19. Agricultural Development and Growing Water Crisis in Rajasthan: The Way Forward/Dalbir Singh. 20. Is IWRM a Mirage or Reality in Indian Irrigation System?/Prem S. Vashishtha and Dalbir Singh.