Suchergebnisse

Surface water resources / Sharad Kumar Jain, Marc A. Jeuland, Luna Bharati and Zahirul Haque Khan -- Groundwater resources / Dipankar Saha, Anwar Zahid, Surendra Raj Shreshtha and Paul Pavelic -- Climate change and the Ganges Basin / Marc A. Jeuland -- Managing variability : floods and droughts / Giriraj Amarnath, A.K.M. Saiful Islam and M.S. Shrestha -- Agriculture and water use : implications for sustainable intensification / Bharat Sharma, Alok K. Sikka, Ram Pratap Sah and Xueliang Cai -- Hydropower : the status and challenges / Dwarika N. Dhungel, Santa Bahadur Pun, Sonali Mittra and M. Monirul Qader Mirza -- Water-food-energy nexus : challenges and opportunities / Christopher A. Scott, Arica Crootof, Bhuwan Thapa and Rashmi Kiran Shreshtha -- Ganges water machine : one solution to basin water problems? / Upali A. Amarasinghe and Lal Mutuwatte -- Environmental flows : keeping the basin rivers alive / Vladimir Smakhtin and Luna Bharati -- Ecosystem services and conservation assessment of freshwater biodiversity / Asghar Nawab, Ravindra Kumar Sinha, Paul M. Thompson and Subodh Sharma -- Arsenic in the eastern Ganges basin : extent and impact on food chain and human health / Rajmohan Natarajan, Dipankar Chakraborti and Sanmugam Prathapar -- Ganges water quality : dirty past, promising future / Javier Mateo-Sagasta and Vinod Tare -- Institutions and policies governing water resources management / M. Dinesh Kumar, Dwarika N. Dhungel, M. Monirul Qader Mirza and Diana Suhardiman -- Poverty, inequalities and vulnerability of the rural poor / Upali A. Amarasinghe, Fraser Sugden and Floriane Clement -- Gender, agricultural investment and productivity in an era of out-migration / Fraser Sugden, Panchali Saikia, Niki Maskey-Amatya and Paras Pokhrel -- Can there be progress on transboundary water cooperation in the Ganges? / Mark Giordano, Dipak Gyawali, Ainun Nishat and Uttam Kumar Sinha -- Basin water challenges : an agenda for accelerated reform / Tushaar Shah, Prachanda Pradhan and Golam Rasul

This study attempts to examine those unique aspects of interbasin water transfer planning, which are of critical importance to the sustainable water resources development in India. It focuses on the crucial aspect of accurate quantification of surface water availability, which determines the entire feasibility of a water transfer. It also illustrates the impacts of upstream water resources development on the deltas' environment thus justifying the deltas' environmental flow requirements. The report targets government departments, research institutions and NGOs - primarily in India and other countries of the region - which are engaged or interested in issues of interbasin water transfer and environmental water management. The research intends to: contribute to the effectiveness of water resources planning and management in India; emphasize the need for urgent improvement of access to hydrometeorological data in the country; and aim to stimulate further debate on water transfers.

The Government of India's National River-Linking Plan (NRLP) aims to alleviate emerging water scarcity problems by transferring water from well endowed to more deficient areas. This study evaluated the plausible future scenarios of water availability and use under conditions of various cropping patterns, and with the explicit inclusion (for the first time) of environmental water requirements for one of the links of the NRLP: from the Godavari River at Polavaram to the Krishna River at Vijayawada?the 'Polavaram Project'. The scenarios were evaluated using the WEAP (Water Evaluation and Planning) model. The study generates information for use in managing emerging trade-offs. The importance of explicit accounting for monthly variability in description of water supply and demand, in the monsoon-driven climate conditions of the region, is advocated. Such detailed scenario simulations and inclusion of previously unaccounted for factors/uses can help to create awareness of potential future problems, inform water management practices and suggest management alternatives. Results show that the proposed water storage and transfer will reduce water deficit within the project command area and significantly reduce dry slow river flow into the Lower Godavari Delta.

Socioeconomic status, trends and drivers of change / Shashidhara Kolavalli and Timothy O. Williams -- Surface water resources of the Volta Basin / Marloes L. Mul, Raymond A. Kasei and Matthew McCartney -- Groundwater resources of the Volta Basin / Emmanuel Obuobie, Boubacar Barry and William Agyekum -- Climate variability and change over the Volta River Basin / Mouhamadou B. Sylla, Frank O. Annor, Raymond A. Kasei and Mamadou L. Mbaye -- Managing floods and droughts / Raymond A. Kasei, Barnabas Amisigo and Marloes L. Mul -- Poverty, vulnerability and livelihoods in the Volta Basin : a gendered analysis / Amy Sullivan, Elsie Odonkor and Nicoline de Haan -- Water governance in the Volta Basin / Ben Ampomah, Winston Andah and Charles Biney -- Improving agriculture and food security in the Volta Basin / Augustine Ayantunde, Pamela G. Katic, Olufunke Cofie and Edward K. Abban -- Urban and industrial development / Daniel Van Rooijen, Ben Ampomah, Josiane Nikiema, Yacouba Noël Coulibaly and Lydie Yiougo -- Water-food-energy nexus and hydropower development / Emmanuel O. Bekoe, Winston Andah, Frederick Y. Logah and Bedru B. Balana -- Ecosystem services in the Volta Basin / Fred Kizito and Bedru B. Balana -- Environmental flow requirements in the Volta Basin / Marloes L. Mul and Yongxuan Gao -- Water quality and public health / Chris Gordon, Adelina Mensah, Josiane Nikiema and Pay Drechsel -- Sustainable agricultural intensification in the Volta River Basin / Timothy O. Williams, Jennie Barron and Olufunke Cofie -- Simulating current and future Volta Basin water development scenarios / Aditya Sood, Ousmane Seidou, Gerald Forkuor, Frank O. Annor and Matthew McCartney

In Damen, B.; Tvinnereim, S. (Eds.). Sustainable bioenergy in Asia: improving resilience to high food prices and climate change. Selected papers from a conference held in Bangkok from 1 to 2 June 2011. Bangkok, Thailand: FAO ; Regional Conference for Asia and The Pacific (RAP) Publication 2012/14 ; Modern bioenergy systems are attracting increasing attention from governments in Asia as a potential solution to a range of policy problems related to energy security and sustainable development. Despite growing interest in bioenergy systems, there is still a limited understanding of how their expansion could impact on natural resources such as water. This paper aims to shed some light on the relationship between modern bioenergy development and water depletion using a case study on the biofuel sector in Thailand. This case study also includes an assessment of the impact of biofuel developments on water quality in water systems proximate to bioenergy production facilities in Thailand.

Modern bioenergy systems are attracting increasing attention from governments in Asia as a potential solution to a range of policy problems related to energy security and sustainable development. Despite growing interest in bioenergy systems, there is still a limited understanding of how their expansion could impact on natural resources such as water. This paper aims to shed some light on the relationship between modern bioenergy development and water depletion using a case study on the biofuel sector in Thailand. This case study also includes an assessment of the impact of biofuel developments on water quality in water systems proximate to bioenergy production facilities in Thailand.

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), are high on the agenda for most countries of the world. In its publication of the SDGs, the UN has provided the goals and target descriptions that, if implemented at a country level, would lead towards a sustainable future. The IAEG (InterAgency Expert Group of the SDGs) was tasked with disseminating indicators and methods to countries that can be used to gather data describing the global progress towards sustainability. However, 2030 Agenda leaves it to countries to adopt the targets with each government setting its own national targets guided by the global level of ambition but taking into account national circumstances. At present, guidance on how to go about this is scant but it is clear that the responsibility is with countries to implement and that it is actions at a country level that will determine the success of the SDGs. Reporting on SDGs by country takes on two forms: i) global reporting using prescribed indicator methods and data; ii) National Voluntary Reviews where a country reports on its own progress in more detail but is also able to present data that are more appropriate for the country. For the latter, countries need to be able to adapt the global indicators to fit national priorities and context, thus the global description of an indicator could be reduced to describe only what is relevant to the country. Countries may also, for the National Voluntary Review, use indicators that are unique to the country but nevertheless contribute to measurement of progress towards the global SDG target. Importantly, for those indicators that relate to the security of natural resources security (e.g., water) indicators, there are no prescribed numerical targets/standards or benchmarks. Rather countries will need to set their own benchmarks or standards against which performance can be evaluated. This paper presents a procedure that would enable a country to describe national targets with associated benchmarks that are appropriate for the country. The procedure builds on precedent set in other countries but in particular on a procedure developed for the setting of Resource Quality Objectives in South Africa. The procedure focusses on those SDG targets that are natural resource-security focused, for example, extent of water-related ecosystems (6.6), desertification (15.3) and so forth, because the selection of indicator methods and benchmarks is based on the location of natural resources, their use and present state and how they fit into national strategies.