Water Sector In India Research Articles

Value Chain of the Water Sector in India

Value Chain of the Water Sector in India

Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall in a changing climate: a review

AbstractIndian Summer Monsoon Rainfall (ISMR) is one of the most well-documented areas of hydrometeorology; however, the processes associated with ISMR are not well understood. This attributes to the complexities associated with ISMR at multiple spatio-temporal scales. This further results in inconsistencies across the literature to assess the impacts of global warming on the monsoon, though this has huge relevance as a huge population of South Asia is dependent on the same. Here, we review and assess the existing literature on the Indian monsoon, its variability, and its trajectory in a warming scenario. We further synthesize the literature on its impacts on the hydrology of major river basins in South Asia. We also identify a few research questions, addressing which will add value to the understanding of the Indian monsoon and the associated water cycle. We have highlighted that there is a significant lack of understanding of how different large-scale and regional factors affect ISMR at different timescales. These impacts, in turn, get translated into hydrology and water sector in India. There is a need to know where we stand to combat the impacts of climate change on ISMR, which can be translated to adaptation by policy-making processes and water management practices in India.

Water Policies in India: A Critical Review

Objectives: (a) Review the water institutional structures in India in the context of water demand and supply. (b) Review and critical analysis on the various water related policies in India. (c) To understand the challenges and opportunities in water sector in India and to provide recommendations and guidelines for achieving them. Methods: Various water policies have been evolved and amended since 1987 by the Government of India and other policymakers, describing the factual scenarios of the water resources and their administrations too. This paper strives to critically review these water policies and provide recommendations in view of present challenges and opportunities of water sector. Findings: Addressing the impact of climate change on water availability and economy, concluded that the water imbalance is due to poor management from various levels of states, industries, surface runoff, lack of floodwater management, lack of dams, lakes, river basins and many more. The focus should be on river water management and building dams for water conservation. The government should frame more policies that can be strictly followed by the industries and other wastewater management agencies to make our future secure with preserved water resources. Novelty: To overcome the above challenges/ gaps in the previous water policies in India, the Author, here find its objective through this paper to review the evolution of various water policies implicated in India briefly focusing on the increasing demand for water by the escalating population, its past and present institutional arrangements and conservation practices including reusing wastewater after proper treatment. Keywords: Development, Government of India, Hydrology, Resource Management, Water Policy

Understanding regulatory cultures: The case of water regulatory reforms in India

AbstractThis article uses the concept of regulatory cultures to understand the (dis)embedding of “independent” water regulation in India. It analyzes the specific case of the Maharashtra Water Resources Regulatory Authority and explores how discourses and practices (1990–2015) shaped the regulatory development in the water sector. By documenting the practices of meaning‐making of “independent” regulation, the paper queries the process(es) of subnational regulatory diffusion and analyzes how water regulation is translated, negotiated, contested, and subverted as situated meanings evolve in the process. Taking an anthropological approach to studying the State and regulation, the article demonstrates how and why the State remains at the very center of the regulatory project in the water sector in India.

Understanding water institutions and their impact on the performance of the water sector in India

Abstract The water crisis in India is no more restricted to a few states or areas. It has started affecting all forms of life, industry, and livelihood, and therefore it emerges as one of the biggest challenges. The water crisis is a direct outcome of the governance and analysis of water institutions, playing a central role in understanding the state of water governance. This study aims to understand the water institutions and their ultimate impact on various aspects of water sector performance in India. A survey was administered to collect information on the perception of water experts on the role and importance of various institutional aspects including water law, policy, and administration in improving water sector performance in India. Factor analysis and multiple linear regression methods were used to find the significant factors of water institutions and their effect on the different aspects of water sector performance in India. The analysis shows that the most important factors for improving the water sector performance are (a) legal accountability provisions, (b) water transfer policies, and (c) use of science and technology application along with reliable data. The level of importance of these significant institutional variables also varies within various performance aspects.

Editorial Perspectives: innovation needs for the water sector in India to achieve sustainable development goals

Ligy Philip and S. Murty Bhallamudi provide an ‘Editorial Perspective’ on the need for innovation in India's water sector.

Public-private partnerships (PPPs) in water and sanitation in India: lessons from China

Since the 1990s China has emerged as one of the world's most active markets for public-private partnerships (PPPs) in water and sanitation, while the private sector has played a rather limited role in the water sector in India. From 2001 to 2012, there were 237 PPP projects in water and sanitation in China, accounting for 40% of the total number of such projects globally, and the Chinese population served by private water companies increased from merely 8% in 1989 to 38% in 2008. Development of PPPs in the water sector in India during the same period was insignificant. Our comparative analysis of PPPs in water and sanitation in the two countries highlights the importance of water tariff reform, strong support and oversight from the national government, and the availability of credible regulatory mechanisms to safeguard development and sustainability of PPPs in the water sector.

Sector Reforms, Regulation and the Challenges of Sustainability: Demand Side Analysis for Urban Water Utility of Delhi, India

Viewed as an essential service, water in India is still treated as an obligation that the government has to meet at a very heavy subsidy. The government continues to operate major water utilities across cities and towns, most of which are in poor shape. The municipal water sector in India is caught in a vicious cycle where many service providers are not financially viable and are unable to maintain services without substantial subsidy, direct or indirect. Existing services are unable to provide full coverage of the population and are often of a very poor quality. In most of the municipalities, piped water is neither of good quality, nor available 24 hours a day. The quality of service is generally low. Water treatment facilities are also vastly inadequate. Inadequate revenue earning from water supply does not leave any funds for maintenance and upgradation. The vicious cycle has been continuing for decades now. The purpose of this paper is to critically analyze the present status of municipal water sector in India in the light of water pricing and tariff design and devise a roadmap for reform. Supply, tariff and performance of water utilities in four metro cities of India are discussed. The paper describes the major elements of pricing and tariff reforms that are needed in the municipal water supply sector in India. Due to space constraints, the focus of the paper is on municipal water supply and not on sewerage and sanitation services.

International cooperation in the protection of the environment in emerging markets – the case of India

The continuation of India's positive economic development in the future depends to a great extent on whether India succeeds in significantly reducing its enormous environmental problems. International cooperation on improving environmental quality could benefit both, India as well as industrialised countries supporting sustainability – by means of financial as well as technological transfers – in the developing world. In future, especially policies in the shape of adaptation to climate change will become very important, as we illustrate for the water sector in India.

Deficient Public Infrastructure and Private Costs: Evidence from a Time-Use Survey for the Water Sector in India

This paper presents new evidence on the links between public-infrastructure provisioning and time allocation related to the water sector in India. An analysis of time-use data reveals that worsening public infrastructure affects market work, with evident gender differentials. The results also suggest that access to public infrastructure can lead to substitution effects in time allocation between unpaid work and market work. The broad conclusion of the paper is that public-investment policy can redress intrahousehold inequalities, in terms of labor-supply decisions, by supporting initiatives that reduce the allocation of time in nonmarket work.

Public private partnerships in basic service delivery: impact on the poor, examples from the water sector in India

What is the theory behind Public?Private Partnerships (PPPs)? In this contribution PPPs are defined as private sector involvement, where a public and a private partner share the risks related to the necessary investments. Besides complementarity, the other factors contributing to the success of PPPs will be analysed. Evidence concerning India will be used to assess which factors played a role and to suggest a PPP dialogue in India, which would involve all stakeholders before actually embarking on PPPs for urban infrastructure projects such as drinking water and sanitation. It would help to do projects in such a way that they would also benefit the urban poor.

Enhancing Management Capabilities of the Water Sector in India

The policy review process of the Indian water sector is examined by considering the present and the likely future changes in the sector, and in its legal and institutional framework. The need to achieve institutional consolidation and internalization of various concerns, to involve users and to create interdisciplinaryand autonomous institutes is brought out. The emphasis is on the priorities required for human resources development and particularly for attitudinal changes for this purpose. A review of the literature and experience indicates that WALMIs established in India are able to achieve changes but need support and coordination.

Determinants of Women's Time Allocation in Rural Bangladesh

Previous articleNext article No AccessDeterminants of Women's Time Allocation in Rural BangladeshShahidur R. KhandkerShahidur R. 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