WATER MANAGEMENT: Multiple Dimensions

For many years now it has been recognized that water management and development is going to be an increasingly complex and sensitive task in the 21st century involving various facets and dimensions with more and more regions facing situations of water stress or water scarcity and problems not only of availability of fresh water, but also of its quality. Thus, the importance of the effective management of water cannot be overemphasized. It is in this backdrop that the present volume gives a panoramic view of the various dimensions of the water management in India. Certain critical and crucial issues pertaining to water in the Indian context as discussed by scholars, researchers, policy makers and implementors have been put together in this volume in articles which touch upon water demand projections, canal irrigation and participatory irrigation management, use of water from tanks and of groundwater watershed development, rainwater harvesting, land-water management, rural drinking water, domestic use of water supply in cities, integrated water resource management, managing water in rural areas, community water management, community-based organizations and water users groups, role of NGOs, interlinking of rivers, environmental uses of water, water conservation, federal issues in water resources use, the water scenario in an Indian state, training and capacity building for the water sector, and water issues and strategies at global and all-India levels.

Besides, water use has been discussed in all its facets and dimensions: sociological, economic, institutional, administrative, cultural, managerial, behavioural, participatory, technical, environmental, developmental, policy-oriented, grassroots-implementational etc.

It is hoped that the book will of immense help to scholars, researchers, analysts, commentators, academicians, policy makers and implementors.

Rakesh Hooja is a Ph.D. in Social Sciences from University of Rajasthan. He joined Indian Administrative Service in 1974 having earlier taught in the same university. He has held various important positions in both Government of India and Government of Rajasthan. He has also been President, Indian Network on Participatory Irrigation Management (IndiaNPIM) and Vice President, Indian Water Resources Society (IWRS). Presently, he is Director, HCM Rajasthan State Institute of Public Administration, Jaipur and ex-officio Principal Secretary (Training), Government of Rajasthan.

Besides a score of research papers and reviews, Dr. Hooja has authored/edited 21 books and also an equal number of monographs. He is the Honorary Associate Editor, “Indian Book Chronicle, ” Editor-in-Chief, “Prashasnika” and Editor, “ASTI Journal of Training & Development.”

Ramesh K. Arora has had his higher education from the University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA from where he obtained his Masters and Ph.D. He has been Professor, Head and Dean in the University of Rajasthan. Presently, he is Visiting Professor, HCM Rajasthan State Institute of Public Administration, Jaipur and Chairman, Management Development Academy, Jaipur. An author/editor of more than forty books, Dr. Arora is also Editor of “Prashasnika” and “Administrative Change.”

K.K. Parnami has been Publication Officer in the HCM Rajasthan State Institute of Public Administration, Jaipur since 1995. He has contributed several scholarly papers in national journals and has also been involved in the editing of the journals “Prashasnika, Development Policy and Administration Review” and “ASTI Journal of Training & Development.”