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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2016Nepal, Bangladesh, Japan, China, Australia, India, Pakistan
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2016India, Sri Lanka, Central Asia, Eastern Africa, Northern Africa, South-Eastern Asia, Southern Africa, Western Africa
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2014Nigeria, Zambia, Brazil, Cambodia, India, Niger, Africa, Asia, Central America, South America
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Library ResourceDecember, 2013Bangladesh, India, South-Eastern Asia
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2016India, Nepal, South-Eastern Asia
Although the Ganges River Basin (GRB) has abundant water resources, the seasonal monsoon causes a mismatch in water supply and demand, which creates severe water-related challenges for the people living in the basin, the rapidly growing economy and the environment. Addressing these increasing challenges will depend on how people manage the basin’s groundwater resources, on which the reliance will increase further due to limited prospects for additional surface storage development.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2016India
Recycling and reuse of treated wastewater are an important part of the sanitation cycle and critical in an environment such as urban India with decreasing freshwater availability and increasing costs for delivering acceptable quality water, often from far distance. This report has been developed as a possible guidance document for the Indian government and gives substantial focus to the financial and economic benefits of wastewater recycling from the perspective of public spending.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2016India
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 1994India, Nepal
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2015Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Southern Asia
The concept of ‘Underground Taming of Floods for Irrigation’ (UTFI) is introduced as an approach for co-managing floods and droughts at the river basin scale. UTFI involves strategic recharge of aquifers upstream during periods of high flow, thereby preventing local and downstream flooding, and simultaneously providing additional groundwater for irrigation during the dry season for livelihood improvement. Three key stages in moving UTFI from the concept stage to mainstream implementation are discussed.
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