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The ongoing droughts and water crises in Maharashtra and Gujarat point to the multiple conflicts the beleaguered and scarce resource of water is likely to spark in the coming years. India is today the world&amp;rsquo;s largest consumer of groundwater, but it is clear that how we extract, harvest, distribute and manage our most precious resource cannot proceed along usual lines.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The unsustainable over-extraction is heralding a fall in the water-table and in water quality &amp;ndash; a phenomenon already witnessed in 60% of India&amp;rsquo;s districts. On the other hand, there are limits to top-down policies and big-ticket projects such as big dams and river-linking projects, which are increasingly hard to locate or sustain, and come with heavy costs. Meanwhile, the water demands from individuals to agriculture and industry grow.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In a recent analysis, Planning Commission member Mihir Shah flags the following departures in the 12th Five Year plan, arguing that this is an attempt at radical rethinking how India manages and uses its water resources:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Reforming irrigation departments and systems&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Participatory groundwater management networks spanning government, local elected bodies, civil society networks and research organisations&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Investing in systems that delink power subsidies in rural areas from supply to water extractors (e.g. tubewells) to address over-extraction of groundwater&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Emphasizing small-scale water infrastructure in MNREGA e.g. watershed conservation works and drought-proofing of small farms&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Bringing gram panchayats centre-stage in rural drinking water supply and sanitation schemes with a devolution index monitoring the transfer of funds and functions to these elected bodies&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Mandating water audits to monitor the increasing and conflicts-generating industrial use of water&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;
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&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Further Readings:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;
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Water: Towards a Paradigm Shift in the Twelfth Plan -Mihir Shah, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol xlviiI 40, No 3, January 19, 2013, &lt;a href=&quot;../rural-news-update/water-towards-a-paradigm-shift-in-the-twelfth-plan-mihir-shah-18969.html&quot;&gt;http://www.im4change.org/rural-news-update/water-towards-a-paradigm-shift-in-the-twelfth-plan-mihir-shah-18969.html&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 
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&amp;nbsp;
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The Central Water Commission&#039;s 2009 analysis of siltation in major irrigation projects
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&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indiawaterportal.org/node/39399&quot;&gt;http://www.indiawaterportal.org/node/39399&lt;/a&gt;
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The Central Groundwater Board&#039;s 2012 analysis
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&lt;a href=&quot;http://cgwb.gov.in/documents/GROUND%20WATER%20LEVEL%20SCENARIO_November-12.pdf&quot;&gt;http://cgwb.gov.in/documents/GROUND%20WATER%20LEVEL%20SCENARIO_November-12.pdf&lt;/a&gt;
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An assessment of the Gujarat government&#039;s Jyotigram scheme which bifurcates rural farm and non-farm power supply in a bid to address subsidies and groundwater extraction:
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&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/publications/Other/PDF/NRLP%20Proceeding-2%20Paper%2015.pdf&quot;&gt;http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/publications/Other/PDF/NRLP%20Proceeding-2%20Paper%2015.pdf&lt;/a&gt;
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Analyses of Western India&#039;s ongoing drought:
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&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/drought-equity&quot;&gt;http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/drought-equity&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://sandrp.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/how-is-2012-13-maharashtra-drought-worse-than-the-one-in-1972/&quot;&gt;http://sandrp.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/how-is-2012-13-maharashtra-drought-worse-than-the-one-in-1972/&lt;/a&gt;
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Potential synergies between NREGA and water management and restoration works:
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&lt;a href=&quot;ftp://ftp.solutionexchange.net.in/public/wes/cr/res-030212010.pdf&quot;&gt;ftp://ftp.solutionexchange.net.in/public/wes/cr/res-030212010.pdf&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.observerindia.com/cms/export/orfonline/documents/NREGA.pdf&quot;&gt;http://www.observerindia.com/cms/export/orfonline/documents/NREGA.pdf&lt;/a&gt;
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Industry&#039;s competing demands for water
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&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indiawaterportal.org/post/39910&quot;&gt;http://www.indiawaterportal.org/post/39910&lt;/a&gt;
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The Case of Maharashtra&amp;rsquo;s &lt;a href=&quot;tinymce/uploaded/The_Case_of_MaharashtrasDisappearing_Water.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Maharashtra Water&quot;&gt;Disappearing Water&lt;/a&gt;-Ajay Dandekar and Shahaji Naravade, Economic and Political Weekly, May 4, 2013, Vol xlviiI, No 18&amp;nbsp;
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The ongoing droughts and water crises in Maharashtra and Gujarat point to the multiple conflicts the beleaguered and scarce resource of water is likely to spark in the coming years. India is today the world&amp;rsquo;s largest consumer of groundwater, but it is clear that how we extract, harvest, distribute and manage our most precious resource cannot proceed along usual lines.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The unsustainable over-extraction is heralding a fall in the water-table and in water quality &amp;ndash; a phenomenon already witnessed in 60% of India&amp;rsquo;s districts. On the other hand, there are limits to top-down policies and big-ticket projects such as big dams and river-linking projects, which are increasingly hard to locate or sustain, and come with heavy costs. Meanwhile, the water demands from individuals to agriculture and industry grow.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In a recent analysis, Planning Commission member Mihir Shah flags the following departures in the 12th Five Year plan, arguing that this is an attempt at radical rethinking how India manages and uses its water resources:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Reforming irrigation departments and systems&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Participatory groundwater management networks spanning government, local elected bodies, civil society networks and research organisations&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Investing in systems that delink power subsidies in rural areas from supply to water extractors (e.g. tubewells) to address over-extraction of groundwater&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Emphasizing small-scale water infrastructure in MNREGA e.g. watershed conservation works and drought-proofing of small farms&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Bringing gram panchayats centre-stage in rural drinking water supply and sanitation schemes with a devolution index monitoring the transfer of funds and functions to these elected bodies&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Mandating water audits to monitor the increasing and conflicts-generating industrial use of water&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Further Readings:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
Water: Towards a Paradigm Shift in the Twelfth Plan -Mihir Shah, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol xlviiI 40, No 3, January 19, 2013, &lt;a href=&quot;../rural-news-update/water-towards-a-paradigm-shift-in-the-twelfth-plan-mihir-shah-18969.html&quot;&gt;http://www.im4change.org/rural-news-update/water-towards-a-paradigm-shift-in-the-twelfth-plan-mihir-shah-18969.html&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
The Central Water Commission&#039;s 2009 analysis of siltation in major irrigation projects
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indiawaterportal.org/node/39399&quot;&gt;http://www.indiawaterportal.org/node/39399&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The Central Groundwater Board&#039;s 2012 analysis
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://cgwb.gov.in/documents/GROUND%20WATER%20LEVEL%20SCENARIO_November-12.pdf&quot;&gt;http://cgwb.gov.in/documents/GROUND%20WATER%20LEVEL%20SCENARIO_November-12.pdf&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
An assessment of the Gujarat government&#039;s Jyotigram scheme which bifurcates rural farm and non-farm power supply in a bid to address subsidies and groundwater extraction:
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/publications/Other/PDF/NRLP%20Proceeding-2%20Paper%2015.pdf&quot;&gt;http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/publications/Other/PDF/NRLP%20Proceeding-2%20Paper%2015.pdf&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Analyses of Western India&#039;s ongoing drought:
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/drought-equity&quot;&gt;http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/drought-equity&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://sandrp.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/how-is-2012-13-maharashtra-drought-worse-than-the-one-in-1972/&quot;&gt;http://sandrp.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/how-is-2012-13-maharashtra-drought-worse-than-the-one-in-1972/&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Potential synergies between NREGA and water management and restoration works:
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;ftp://ftp.solutionexchange.net.in/public/wes/cr/res-030212010.pdf&quot;&gt;ftp://ftp.solutionexchange.net.in/public/wes/cr/res-030212010.pdf&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.observerindia.com/cms/export/orfonline/documents/NREGA.pdf&quot;&gt;http://www.observerindia.com/cms/export/orfonline/documents/NREGA.pdf&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://wrmin.nic.in/writereaddata/linkimages/Convergence913729635.pdf&quot;&gt;http://wrmin.nic.in/writereaddata/linkimages/Convergence913729635.pdf&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
Industry&#039;s competing demands for water
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indiawaterportal.org/post/39910&quot;&gt;http://www.indiawaterportal.org/post/39910&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
The Case of Maharashtra&amp;rsquo;s &lt;a href=&quot;tinymce/uploaded/The_Case_of_MaharashtrasDisappearing_Water.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Maharashtra Water&quot;&gt;Disappearing Water&lt;/a&gt;-Ajay Dandekar and Shahaji Naravade, Economic and Political Weekly, May 4, 2013, Vol xlviiI, No 18&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Image Courtesy: &lt;a href=&quot;http://awm-solutions.iwmi.org/Data/Sites/3/userfiles/149/india/hooghly-surfacewaterpumping.jpg&quot;&gt;http://awm-solutions.iwmi.org/Data/Sites/3/userfiles/149/india/hooghly-surfacewaterpumping.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; 
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                <p align="justify"><br />The ongoing droughts and water crises in Maharashtra and Gujarat point to the multiple conflicts the beleaguered and scarce resource of water is likely to spark in the coming years. India is today the world&rsquo;s largest consumer of groundwater, but it is clear that how we extract, harvest, distribute and manage our most precious resource cannot proceed along usual lines.<br /><br />The unsustainable over-extraction is heralding a fall in the water-table and in water quality &ndash; a phenomenon already witnessed in 60% of India&rsquo;s districts. On the other hand, there are limits to top-down policies and big-ticket projects such as big dams and river-linking projects, which are increasingly hard to locate or sustain, and come with heavy costs. Meanwhile, the water demands from individuals to agriculture and industry grow.<br /><br />In a recent analysis, Planning Commission member Mihir Shah flags the following departures in the 12th Five Year plan, arguing that this is an attempt at radical rethinking how India manages and uses its water resources:<br /><br />Reforming irrigation departments and systems<br /><br />Participatory groundwater management networks spanning government, local elected bodies, civil society networks and research organisations<br /><br />Investing in systems that delink power subsidies in rural areas from supply to water extractors (e.g. tubewells) to address over-extraction of groundwater<br /><br />Emphasizing small-scale water infrastructure in MNREGA e.g. watershed conservation works and drought-proofing of small farms<br /><br />Bringing gram panchayats centre-stage in rural drinking water supply and sanitation schemes with a devolution index monitoring the transfer of funds and functions to these elected bodies<br /><br />Mandating water audits to monitor the increasing and conflicts-generating industrial use of water<br />&nbsp;</p><p align="justify"><em><strong>Further Readings:</strong></em></p><div align="justify"></div><p align="justify">&nbsp;</p><p align="justify">Water: Towards a Paradigm Shift in the Twelfth Plan -Mihir Shah, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol xlviiI 40, No 3, January 19, 2013, <a href="https://im4change.in/rural-news-update/water-towards-a-paradigm-shift-in-the-twelfth-plan-mihir-shah-18969.html" title="https://im4change.in/rural-news-update/water-towards-a-paradigm-shift-in-the-twelfth-plan-mihir-shah-18969.html">http://www.im4change.org/rural-news-update/water-towards-a<br />-paradigm-shift-in-the-twelfth-plan-mihir-shah-18969.html</a>&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p align="justify">&nbsp;</p><p align="justify">The Central Water Commission's 2009 analysis of siltation in major irrigation projects</p><p align="justify"><a href="http://www.indiawaterportal.org/node/39399" title="http://www.indiawaterportal.org/node/39399">http://www.indiawaterportal.org/node/39399</a></p><p align="justify"><br />The Central Groundwater Board's 2012 analysis</p><p align="justify"><a href="http://cgwb.gov.in/documents/GROUND%20WATER%20LEVEL%20SCENARIO_November-12.pdf" title="http://cgwb.gov.in/documents/GROUND%20WATER%20LEVEL%20SCENARIO_November-12.pdf">http://cgwb.gov.in/documents/GROUND%20WATER%20LEVEL%20SCEN<br />ARIO_November-12.pdf</a></p><p align="justify"><br />An assessment of the Gujarat government's Jyotigram scheme which bifurcates rural farm and non-farm power supply in a bid to address subsidies and groundwater extraction:</p><p align="justify"><a href="http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/publications/Other/PDF/NRLP%20Proceeding-2%20Paper%2015.pdf" title="http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/publications/Other/PDF/NRLP%20Proceeding-2%20Paper%2015.pdf">http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/publications/Other/PDF/NRLP%20Pr<br />oceeding-2%20Paper%2015.pdf</a></p><p align="justify"><br />Analyses of Western India's ongoing drought:</p><p align="justify"><a href="http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/drought-equity" title="http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/drought-equity">http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/drought-equity</a></p><p align="justify"><br /><a href="http://sandrp.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/how-is-2012-13-maharashtra-drought-worse-than-the-one-in-1972/" title="http://sandrp.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/how-is-2012-13-maharashtra-drought-worse-than-the-one-in-1972/">http://sandrp.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/how-is-2012-13-maha<br />rashtra-drought-worse-than-the-one-in-1972/</a></p><p align="justify"><br />Potential synergies between NREGA and water management and restoration works:</p><p align="justify"><a href="ftp://ftp.solutionexchange.net.in/public/wes/cr/res-030212010.pdf" title="ftp://ftp.solutionexchange.net.in/public/wes/cr/res-030212010.pdf">ftp://ftp.solutionexchange.net.in/public/wes/cr/res-030212010.pdf</a></p><p align="justify"><br /><a href="http://www.observerindia.com/cms/export/orfonline/documents/NREGA.pdf" title="http://www.observerindia.com/cms/export/orfonline/documents/NREGA.pdf">http://www.observerindia.com/cms/export/orfonline/document<br />s/NREGA.pdf</a></p><p align="justify"><br /><a href="http://wrmin.nic.in/writereaddata/linkimages/Convergence913729635.pdf" title="http://wrmin.nic.in/writereaddata/linkimages/Convergence913729635.pdf">http://wrmin.nic.in/writereaddata/linkimages/Convergence91<br />3729635.pdf</a></p><p align="justify">Industry's competing demands for water</p><p align="justify"><a href="http://www.indiawaterportal.org/post/39910" title="http://www.indiawaterportal.org/post/39910">http://www.indiawaterportal.org/post/39910</a></p><p align="justify">The Case of Maharashtra&rsquo;s <a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/The_Case_of_MaharashtrasDisappearing_Water.pdf" title="Maharashtra Water" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/The_Case_of_MaharashtrasDisappearing_Water.pdf" title="Maharashtra Water">Disappearing Water</a>-Ajay Dandekar and Shahaji Naravade, Economic and Political Weekly, May 4, 2013, Vol xlviiI, No 18&nbsp;</p><p align="justify"><strong>Image Courtesy: <a href="http://awm-solutions.iwmi.org/Data/Sites/3/userfiles/149/india/hooghly-surfacewaterpumping.jpg" title="http://awm-solutions.iwmi.org/Data/Sites/3/userfiles/149/india/hooghly-surfacewaterpumping.jpg">http://awm-solutions.iwmi.org/Data/Sites/3/userfiles/149/i<br />ndia/hooghly-surfacewaterpumping.jpg</a></strong> </p>               </font>
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&lt;br /&gt;
The ongoing droughts and water crises in Maharashtra and Gujarat point to the multiple conflicts the beleaguered and scarce resource of water is likely to spark in the coming years. India is today the world&amp;rsquo;s largest consumer of groundwater, but it is clear that how we extract, harvest, distribute and manage our most precious resource cannot proceed along usual lines.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The unsustainable over-extraction is heralding a fall in the water-table and in water quality &amp;ndash; a phenomenon already witnessed in 60% of India&amp;rsquo;s districts. On the other hand, there are limits to top-down policies and big-ticket projects such as big dams and river-linking projects, which are increasingly hard to locate or sustain, and come with heavy costs. Meanwhile, the water demands from individuals to agriculture and industry grow.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In a recent analysis, Planning Commission member Mihir Shah flags the following departures in the 12th Five Year plan, arguing that this is an attempt at radical rethinking how India manages and uses its water resources:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Reforming irrigation departments and systems&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Participatory groundwater management networks spanning government, local elected bodies, civil society networks and research organisations&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Investing in systems that delink power subsidies in rural areas from supply to water extractors (e.g. tubewells) to address over-extraction of groundwater&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Emphasizing small-scale water infrastructure in MNREGA e.g. watershed conservation works and drought-proofing of small farms&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Bringing gram panchayats centre-stage in rural drinking water supply and sanitation schemes with a devolution index monitoring the transfer of funds and functions to these elected bodies&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Mandating water audits to monitor the increasing and conflicts-generating industrial use of water&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;
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&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Further Readings:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;
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Water: Towards a Paradigm Shift in the Twelfth Plan -Mihir Shah, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol xlviiI 40, No 3, January 19, 2013, &lt;a href=&quot;../rural-news-update/water-towards-a-paradigm-shift-in-the-twelfth-plan-mihir-shah-18969.html&quot;&gt;http://www.im4change.org/rural-news-update/water-towards-a-paradigm-shift-in-the-twelfth-plan-mihir-shah-18969.html&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 
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&amp;nbsp;
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The Central Water Commission&#039;s 2009 analysis of siltation in major irrigation projects
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&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indiawaterportal.org/node/39399&quot;&gt;http://www.indiawaterportal.org/node/39399&lt;/a&gt;
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The Central Groundwater Board&#039;s 2012 analysis
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&lt;a href=&quot;http://cgwb.gov.in/documents/GROUND%20WATER%20LEVEL%20SCENARIO_November-12.pdf&quot;&gt;http://cgwb.gov.in/documents/GROUND%20WATER%20LEVEL%20SCENARIO_November-12.pdf&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
An assessment of the Gujarat government&#039;s Jyotigram scheme which bifurcates rural farm and non-farm power supply in a bid to address subsidies and groundwater extraction:
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&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/publications/Other/PDF/NRLP%20Proceeding-2%20Paper%2015.pdf&quot;&gt;http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/publications/Other/PDF/NRLP%20Proceeding-2%20Paper%2015.pdf&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
Analyses of Western India&#039;s ongoing drought:
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/drought-equity&quot;&gt;http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/drought-equity&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://sandrp.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/how-is-2012-13-maharashtra-drought-worse-than-the-one-in-1972/&quot;&gt;http://sandrp.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/how-is-2012-13-maharashtra-drought-worse-than-the-one-in-1972/&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
Potential synergies between NREGA and water management and restoration works:
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&lt;a href=&quot;ftp://ftp.solutionexchange.net.in/public/wes/cr/res-030212010.pdf&quot;&gt;ftp://ftp.solutionexchange.net.in/public/wes/cr/res-030212010.pdf&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.observerindia.com/cms/export/orfonline/documents/NREGA.pdf&quot;&gt;http://www.observerindia.com/cms/export/orfonline/documents/NREGA.pdf&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://wrmin.nic.in/writereaddata/linkimages/Convergence913729635.pdf&quot;&gt;http://wrmin.nic.in/writereaddata/linkimages/Convergence913729635.pdf&lt;br /&gt;
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Industry&#039;s competing demands for water
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&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indiawaterportal.org/post/39910&quot;&gt;http://www.indiawaterportal.org/post/39910&lt;/a&gt;
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The Case of Maharashtra&amp;rsquo;s &lt;a href=&quot;tinymce/uploaded/The_Case_of_MaharashtrasDisappearing_Water.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Maharashtra Water&quot;&gt;Disappearing Water&lt;/a&gt;-Ajay Dandekar and Shahaji Naravade, Economic and Political Weekly, May 4, 2013, Vol xlviiI, No 18&amp;nbsp;
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	&#039;disp&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The ongoing droughts and water crises in Maharashtra and Gujarat point to the multiple conflicts the beleaguered and scarce resource of water is likely to spark in the coming years. India is today the world&amp;rsquo;s largest consumer of groundwater, but it is clear that how we extract, harvest, distribute and manage our most precious resource cannot proceed along usual lines.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The unsustainable over-extraction is heralding a fall in the water-table and in water quality &amp;ndash; a phenomenon already witnessed in 60% of India&amp;rsquo;s districts. On the other hand, there are limits to top-down policies and big-ticket projects such as big dams and river-linking projects, which are increasingly hard to locate or sustain, and come with heavy costs. Meanwhile, the water demands from individuals to agriculture and industry grow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a recent analysis, Planning Commission member Mihir Shah flags the following departures in the 12th Five Year plan, arguing that this is an attempt at radical rethinking how India manages and uses its water resources:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reforming irrigation departments and systems&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Participatory groundwater management networks spanning government, local elected bodies, civil society networks and research organisations&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Investing in systems that delink power subsidies in rural areas from supply to water extractors (e.g. tubewells) to address over-extraction of groundwater&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Emphasizing small-scale water infrastructure in MNREGA e.g. watershed conservation works and drought-proofing of small farms&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bringing gram panchayats centre-stage in rural drinking water supply and sanitation schemes with a devolution index monitoring the transfer of funds and functions to these elected bodies&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mandating water audits to monitor the increasing and conflicts-generating industrial use of water&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Further Readings:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Water: Towards a Paradigm Shift in the Twelfth Plan -Mihir Shah, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol xlviiI 40, No 3, January 19, 2013, &lt;a href=&quot;https://im4change.in/rural-news-update/water-towards-a-paradigm-shift-in-the-twelfth-plan-mihir-shah-18969.html&quot; title=&quot;https://im4change.in/rural-news-update/water-towards-a-paradigm-shift-in-the-twelfth-plan-mihir-shah-18969.html&quot;&gt;http://www.im4change.org/rural-news-update/water-towards-a&lt;br /&gt;-paradigm-shift-in-the-twelfth-plan-mihir-shah-18969.html&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;The Central Water Commission&#039;s 2009 analysis of siltation in major irrigation projects&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indiawaterportal.org/node/39399&quot; title=&quot;http://www.indiawaterportal.org/node/39399&quot;&gt;http://www.indiawaterportal.org/node/39399&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Central Groundwater Board&#039;s 2012 analysis&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://cgwb.gov.in/documents/GROUND%20WATER%20LEVEL%20SCENARIO_November-12.pdf&quot; title=&quot;http://cgwb.gov.in/documents/GROUND%20WATER%20LEVEL%20SCENARIO_November-12.pdf&quot;&gt;http://cgwb.gov.in/documents/GROUND%20WATER%20LEVEL%20SCEN&lt;br /&gt;ARIO_November-12.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An assessment of the Gujarat government&#039;s Jyotigram scheme which bifurcates rural farm and non-farm power supply in a bid to address subsidies and groundwater extraction:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/publications/Other/PDF/NRLP%20Proceeding-2%20Paper%2015.pdf&quot; title=&quot;http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/publications/Other/PDF/NRLP%20Proceeding-2%20Paper%2015.pdf&quot;&gt;http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/publications/Other/PDF/NRLP%20Pr&lt;br /&gt;oceeding-2%20Paper%2015.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Analyses of Western India&#039;s ongoing drought:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/drought-equity&quot; title=&quot;http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/drought-equity&quot;&gt;http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/drought-equity&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://sandrp.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/how-is-2012-13-maharashtra-drought-worse-than-the-one-in-1972/&quot; title=&quot;http://sandrp.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/how-is-2012-13-maharashtra-drought-worse-than-the-one-in-1972/&quot;&gt;http://sandrp.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/how-is-2012-13-maha&lt;br /&gt;rashtra-drought-worse-than-the-one-in-1972/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Potential synergies between NREGA and water management and restoration works:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;ftp://ftp.solutionexchange.net.in/public/wes/cr/res-030212010.pdf&quot; title=&quot;ftp://ftp.solutionexchange.net.in/public/wes/cr/res-030212010.pdf&quot;&gt;ftp://ftp.solutionexchange.net.in/public/wes/cr/res-030212010.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.observerindia.com/cms/export/orfonline/documents/NREGA.pdf&quot; title=&quot;http://www.observerindia.com/cms/export/orfonline/documents/NREGA.pdf&quot;&gt;http://www.observerindia.com/cms/export/orfonline/document&lt;br /&gt;s/NREGA.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://wrmin.nic.in/writereaddata/linkimages/Convergence913729635.pdf&quot; title=&quot;http://wrmin.nic.in/writereaddata/linkimages/Convergence913729635.pdf&quot;&gt;http://wrmin.nic.in/writereaddata/linkimages/Convergence91&lt;br /&gt;3729635.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Industry&#039;s competing demands for water&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indiawaterportal.org/post/39910&quot; 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&lt;br /&gt;
The ongoing droughts and water crises in Maharashtra and Gujarat point to the multiple conflicts the beleaguered and scarce resource of water is likely to spark in the coming years. India is today the world&amp;rsquo;s largest consumer of groundwater, but it is clear that how we extract, harvest, distribute and manage our most precious resource cannot proceed along usual lines.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The unsustainable over-extraction is heralding a fall in the water-table and in water quality &amp;ndash; a phenomenon already witnessed in 60% of India&amp;rsquo;s districts. On the other hand, there are limits to top-down policies and big-ticket projects such as big dams and river-linking projects, which are increasingly hard to locate or sustain, and come with heavy costs. Meanwhile, the water demands from individuals to agriculture and industry grow.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In a recent analysis, Planning Commission member Mihir Shah flags the following departures in the 12th Five Year plan, arguing that this is an attempt at radical rethinking how India manages and uses its water resources:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Reforming irrigation departments and systems&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Participatory groundwater management networks spanning government, local elected bodies, civil society networks and research organisations&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Investing in systems that delink power subsidies in rural areas from supply to water extractors (e.g. tubewells) to address over-extraction of groundwater&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Emphasizing small-scale water infrastructure in MNREGA e.g. watershed conservation works and drought-proofing of small farms&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Bringing gram panchayats centre-stage in rural drinking water supply and sanitation schemes with a devolution index monitoring the transfer of funds and functions to these elected bodies&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Mandating water audits to monitor the increasing and conflicts-generating industrial use of water&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Further Readings:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
Water: Towards a Paradigm Shift in the Twelfth Plan -Mihir Shah, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol xlviiI 40, No 3, January 19, 2013, &lt;a href=&quot;../rural-news-update/water-towards-a-paradigm-shift-in-the-twelfth-plan-mihir-shah-18969.html&quot;&gt;http://www.im4change.org/rural-news-update/water-towards-a-paradigm-shift-in-the-twelfth-plan-mihir-shah-18969.html&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
The Central Water Commission&#039;s 2009 analysis of siltation in major irrigation projects
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indiawaterportal.org/node/39399&quot;&gt;http://www.indiawaterportal.org/node/39399&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The Central Groundwater Board&#039;s 2012 analysis
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://cgwb.gov.in/documents/GROUND%20WATER%20LEVEL%20SCENARIO_November-12.pdf&quot;&gt;http://cgwb.gov.in/documents/GROUND%20WATER%20LEVEL%20SCENARIO_November-12.pdf&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
An assessment of the Gujarat government&#039;s Jyotigram scheme which bifurcates rural farm and non-farm power supply in a bid to address subsidies and groundwater extraction:
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/publications/Other/PDF/NRLP%20Proceeding-2%20Paper%2015.pdf&quot;&gt;http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/publications/Other/PDF/NRLP%20Proceeding-2%20Paper%2015.pdf&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Analyses of Western India&#039;s ongoing drought:
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/drought-equity&quot;&gt;http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/drought-equity&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://sandrp.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/how-is-2012-13-maharashtra-drought-worse-than-the-one-in-1972/&quot;&gt;http://sandrp.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/how-is-2012-13-maharashtra-drought-worse-than-the-one-in-1972/&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Potential synergies between NREGA and water management and restoration works:
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;ftp://ftp.solutionexchange.net.in/public/wes/cr/res-030212010.pdf&quot;&gt;ftp://ftp.solutionexchange.net.in/public/wes/cr/res-030212010.pdf&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.observerindia.com/cms/export/orfonline/documents/NREGA.pdf&quot;&gt;http://www.observerindia.com/cms/export/orfonline/documents/NREGA.pdf&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://wrmin.nic.in/writereaddata/linkimages/Convergence913729635.pdf&quot;&gt;http://wrmin.nic.in/writereaddata/linkimages/Convergence913729635.pdf&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
Industry&#039;s competing demands for water
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indiawaterportal.org/post/39910&quot;&gt;http://www.indiawaterportal.org/post/39910&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
The Case of Maharashtra&amp;rsquo;s &lt;a href=&quot;tinymce/uploaded/The_Case_of_MaharashtrasDisappearing_Water.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Maharashtra Water&quot;&gt;Disappearing Water&lt;/a&gt;-Ajay Dandekar and Shahaji Naravade, Economic and Political Weekly, May 4, 2013, Vol xlviiI, No 18&amp;nbsp;
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The ongoing droughts and water crises in Maharashtra and Gujarat point to the multiple conflicts the beleaguered and scarce resource of water is likely to spark in the coming years. India is today the world&amp;rsquo;s largest consumer of groundwater, but...&#039;
$disp = &#039;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The ongoing droughts and water crises in Maharashtra and Gujarat point to the multiple conflicts the beleaguered and scarce resource of water is likely to spark in the coming years. India is today the world&amp;rsquo;s largest consumer of groundwater, but it is clear that how we extract, harvest, distribute and manage our most precious resource cannot proceed along usual lines.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The unsustainable over-extraction is heralding a fall in the water-table and in water quality &amp;ndash; a phenomenon already witnessed in 60% of India&amp;rsquo;s districts. On the other hand, there are limits to top-down policies and big-ticket projects such as big dams and river-linking projects, which are increasingly hard to locate or sustain, and come with heavy costs. Meanwhile, the water demands from individuals to agriculture and industry grow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a recent analysis, Planning Commission member Mihir Shah flags the following departures in the 12th Five Year plan, arguing that this is an attempt at radical rethinking how India manages and uses its water resources:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reforming irrigation departments and systems&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Participatory groundwater management networks spanning government, local elected bodies, civil society networks and research organisations&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Investing in systems that delink power subsidies in rural areas from supply to water extractors (e.g. tubewells) to address over-extraction of groundwater&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Emphasizing small-scale water infrastructure in MNREGA e.g. watershed conservation works and drought-proofing of small farms&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bringing gram panchayats centre-stage in rural drinking water supply and sanitation schemes with a devolution index monitoring the transfer of funds and functions to these elected bodies&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mandating water audits to monitor the increasing and conflicts-generating industrial use of water&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Further Readings:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Water: Towards a Paradigm Shift in the Twelfth Plan -Mihir Shah, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol xlviiI 40, No 3, January 19, 2013, &lt;a href=&quot;https://im4change.in/rural-news-update/water-towards-a-paradigm-shift-in-the-twelfth-plan-mihir-shah-18969.html&quot; 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                <p align="justify"><br />The ongoing droughts and water crises in Maharashtra and Gujarat point to the multiple conflicts the beleaguered and scarce resource of water is likely to spark in the coming years. India is today the world&rsquo;s largest consumer of groundwater, but it is clear that how we extract, harvest, distribute and manage our most precious resource cannot proceed along usual lines.<br /><br />The unsustainable over-extraction is heralding a fall in the water-table and in water quality &ndash; a phenomenon already witnessed in 60% of India&rsquo;s districts. On the other hand, there are limits to top-down policies and big-ticket projects such as big dams and river-linking projects, which are increasingly hard to locate or sustain, and come with heavy costs. Meanwhile, the water demands from individuals to agriculture and industry grow.<br /><br />In a recent analysis, Planning Commission member Mihir Shah flags the following departures in the 12th Five Year plan, arguing that this is an attempt at radical rethinking how India manages and uses its water resources:<br /><br />Reforming irrigation departments and systems<br /><br />Participatory groundwater management networks spanning government, local elected bodies, civil society networks and research organisations<br /><br />Investing in systems that delink power subsidies in rural areas from supply to water extractors (e.g. tubewells) to address over-extraction of groundwater<br /><br />Emphasizing small-scale water infrastructure in MNREGA e.g. watershed conservation works and drought-proofing of small farms<br /><br />Bringing gram panchayats centre-stage in rural drinking water supply and sanitation schemes with a devolution index monitoring the transfer of funds and functions to these elected bodies<br /><br />Mandating water audits to monitor the increasing and conflicts-generating industrial use of water<br />&nbsp;</p><p align="justify"><em><strong>Further Readings:</strong></em></p><div align="justify"></div><p align="justify">&nbsp;</p><p align="justify">Water: Towards a Paradigm Shift in the Twelfth Plan -Mihir Shah, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol xlviiI 40, No 3, January 19, 2013, <a href="https://im4change.in/rural-news-update/water-towards-a-paradigm-shift-in-the-twelfth-plan-mihir-shah-18969.html" title="https://im4change.in/rural-news-update/water-towards-a-paradigm-shift-in-the-twelfth-plan-mihir-shah-18969.html">http://www.im4change.org/rural-news-update/water-towards-a<br />-paradigm-shift-in-the-twelfth-plan-mihir-shah-18969.html</a>&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p align="justify">&nbsp;</p><p align="justify">The Central Water Commission's 2009 analysis of siltation in major irrigation projects</p><p align="justify"><a href="http://www.indiawaterportal.org/node/39399" title="http://www.indiawaterportal.org/node/39399">http://www.indiawaterportal.org/node/39399</a></p><p align="justify"><br />The Central Groundwater Board's 2012 analysis</p><p align="justify"><a href="http://cgwb.gov.in/documents/GROUND%20WATER%20LEVEL%20SCENARIO_November-12.pdf" title="http://cgwb.gov.in/documents/GROUND%20WATER%20LEVEL%20SCENARIO_November-12.pdf">http://cgwb.gov.in/documents/GROUND%20WATER%20LEVEL%20SCEN<br />ARIO_November-12.pdf</a></p><p align="justify"><br />An assessment of the Gujarat government's Jyotigram scheme which bifurcates rural farm and non-farm power supply in a bid to address subsidies and groundwater extraction:</p><p align="justify"><a href="http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/publications/Other/PDF/NRLP%20Proceeding-2%20Paper%2015.pdf" title="http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/publications/Other/PDF/NRLP%20Proceeding-2%20Paper%2015.pdf">http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/publications/Other/PDF/NRLP%20Pr<br />oceeding-2%20Paper%2015.pdf</a></p><p align="justify"><br />Analyses of Western India's ongoing drought:</p><p align="justify"><a href="http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/drought-equity" title="http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/drought-equity">http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/drought-equity</a></p><p align="justify"><br /><a href="http://sandrp.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/how-is-2012-13-maharashtra-drought-worse-than-the-one-in-1972/" title="http://sandrp.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/how-is-2012-13-maharashtra-drought-worse-than-the-one-in-1972/">http://sandrp.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/how-is-2012-13-maha<br />rashtra-drought-worse-than-the-one-in-1972/</a></p><p align="justify"><br />Potential synergies between NREGA and water management and restoration works:</p><p align="justify"><a href="ftp://ftp.solutionexchange.net.in/public/wes/cr/res-030212010.pdf" title="ftp://ftp.solutionexchange.net.in/public/wes/cr/res-030212010.pdf">ftp://ftp.solutionexchange.net.in/public/wes/cr/res-030212010.pdf</a></p><p align="justify"><br /><a href="http://www.observerindia.com/cms/export/orfonline/documents/NREGA.pdf" title="http://www.observerindia.com/cms/export/orfonline/documents/NREGA.pdf">http://www.observerindia.com/cms/export/orfonline/document<br />s/NREGA.pdf</a></p><p align="justify"><br /><a href="http://wrmin.nic.in/writereaddata/linkimages/Convergence913729635.pdf" title="http://wrmin.nic.in/writereaddata/linkimages/Convergence913729635.pdf">http://wrmin.nic.in/writereaddata/linkimages/Convergence91<br />3729635.pdf</a></p><p align="justify">Industry's competing demands for water</p><p align="justify"><a href="http://www.indiawaterportal.org/post/39910" title="http://www.indiawaterportal.org/post/39910">http://www.indiawaterportal.org/post/39910</a></p><p align="justify">The Case of Maharashtra&rsquo;s <a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/The_Case_of_MaharashtrasDisappearing_Water.pdf" title="Maharashtra Water" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/The_Case_of_MaharashtrasDisappearing_Water.pdf" title="Maharashtra Water">Disappearing Water</a>-Ajay Dandekar and Shahaji Naravade, Economic and Political Weekly, May 4, 2013, Vol xlviiI, No 18&nbsp;</p><p align="justify"><strong>Image Courtesy: <a href="http://awm-solutions.iwmi.org/Data/Sites/3/userfiles/149/india/hooghly-surfacewaterpumping.jpg" title="http://awm-solutions.iwmi.org/Data/Sites/3/userfiles/149/india/hooghly-surfacewaterpumping.jpg">http://awm-solutions.iwmi.org/Data/Sites/3/userfiles/149/i<br />ndia/hooghly-surfacewaterpumping.jpg</a></strong> </p>               </font>
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The ongoing droughts and water crises in Maharashtra and Gujarat point to the multiple conflicts the beleaguered and scarce resource of water is likely to spark in the coming years. India is today the world&amp;rsquo;s largest consumer of groundwater, but it is clear that how we extract, harvest, distribute and manage our most precious resource cannot proceed along usual lines.&lt;br /&gt;
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The unsustainable over-extraction is heralding a fall in the water-table and in water quality &amp;ndash; a phenomenon already witnessed in 60% of India&amp;rsquo;s districts. On the other hand, there are limits to top-down policies and big-ticket projects such as big dams and river-linking projects, which are increasingly hard to locate or sustain, and come with heavy costs. Meanwhile, the water demands from individuals to agriculture and industry grow.&lt;br /&gt;
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In a recent analysis, Planning Commission member Mihir Shah flags the following departures in the 12th Five Year plan, arguing that this is an attempt at radical rethinking how India manages and uses its water resources:&lt;br /&gt;
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Reforming irrigation departments and systems&lt;br /&gt;
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Participatory groundwater management networks spanning government, local elected bodies, civil society networks and research organisations&lt;br /&gt;
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Investing in systems that delink power subsidies in rural areas from supply to water extractors (e.g. tubewells) to address over-extraction of groundwater&lt;br /&gt;
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Emphasizing small-scale water infrastructure in MNREGA e.g. watershed conservation works and drought-proofing of small farms&lt;br /&gt;
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Bringing gram panchayats centre-stage in rural drinking water supply and sanitation schemes with a devolution index monitoring the transfer of funds and functions to these elected bodies&lt;br /&gt;
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Water: Towards a Paradigm Shift in the Twelfth Plan -Mihir Shah, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol xlviiI 40, No 3, January 19, 2013, &lt;a href=&quot;../rural-news-update/water-towards-a-paradigm-shift-in-the-twelfth-plan-mihir-shah-18969.html&quot;&gt;http://www.im4change.org/rural-news-update/water-towards-a-paradigm-shift-in-the-twelfth-plan-mihir-shah-18969.html&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 
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&amp;nbsp;
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The Central Water Commission&#039;s 2009 analysis of siltation in major irrigation projects
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&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indiawaterportal.org/node/39399&quot;&gt;http://www.indiawaterportal.org/node/39399&lt;/a&gt;
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The Central Groundwater Board&#039;s 2012 analysis
&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;http://cgwb.gov.in/documents/GROUND%20WATER%20LEVEL%20SCENARIO_November-12.pdf&quot;&gt;http://cgwb.gov.in/documents/GROUND%20WATER%20LEVEL%20SCENARIO_November-12.pdf&lt;/a&gt;
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An assessment of the Gujarat government&#039;s Jyotigram scheme which bifurcates rural farm and non-farm power supply in a bid to address subsidies and groundwater extraction:
&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/publications/Other/PDF/NRLP%20Proceeding-2%20Paper%2015.pdf&quot;&gt;http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/publications/Other/PDF/NRLP%20Proceeding-2%20Paper%2015.pdf&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
Analyses of Western India&#039;s ongoing drought:
&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/drought-equity&quot;&gt;http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/drought-equity&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://sandrp.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/how-is-2012-13-maharashtra-drought-worse-than-the-one-in-1972/&quot;&gt;http://sandrp.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/how-is-2012-13-maharashtra-drought-worse-than-the-one-in-1972/&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
Potential synergies between NREGA and water management and restoration works:
&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;ftp://ftp.solutionexchange.net.in/public/wes/cr/res-030212010.pdf&quot;&gt;ftp://ftp.solutionexchange.net.in/public/wes/cr/res-030212010.pdf&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.observerindia.com/cms/export/orfonline/documents/NREGA.pdf&quot;&gt;http://www.observerindia.com/cms/export/orfonline/documents/NREGA.pdf&lt;/a&gt;
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Industry&#039;s competing demands for water
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&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indiawaterportal.org/post/39910&quot;&gt;http://www.indiawaterportal.org/post/39910&lt;/a&gt;
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The Case of Maharashtra&amp;rsquo;s &lt;a href=&quot;tinymce/uploaded/The_Case_of_MaharashtrasDisappearing_Water.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Maharashtra Water&quot;&gt;Disappearing Water&lt;/a&gt;-Ajay Dandekar and Shahaji Naravade, Economic and Political Weekly, May 4, 2013, Vol xlviiI, No 18&amp;nbsp;
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The ongoing droughts and water crises in Maharashtra and Gujarat point to the multiple conflicts the beleaguered and scarce resource of water is likely to spark in the coming years. India is today the world&amp;rsquo;s largest consumer of groundwater, but...&#039;,
	&#039;disp&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The ongoing droughts and water crises in Maharashtra and Gujarat point to the multiple conflicts the beleaguered and scarce resource of water is likely to spark in the coming years. India is today the world&amp;rsquo;s largest consumer of groundwater, but it is clear that how we extract, harvest, distribute and manage our most precious resource cannot proceed along usual lines.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The unsustainable over-extraction is heralding a fall in the water-table and in water quality &amp;ndash; a phenomenon already witnessed in 60% of India&amp;rsquo;s districts. On the other hand, there are limits to top-down policies and big-ticket projects such as big dams and river-linking projects, which are increasingly hard to locate or sustain, and come with heavy costs. Meanwhile, the water demands from individuals to agriculture and industry grow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a recent analysis, Planning Commission member Mihir Shah flags the following departures in the 12th Five Year plan, arguing that this is an attempt at radical rethinking how India manages and uses its water resources:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reforming irrigation departments and systems&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Participatory groundwater management networks spanning government, local elected bodies, civil society networks and research organisations&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Investing in systems that delink power subsidies in rural areas from supply to water extractors (e.g. tubewells) to address over-extraction of groundwater&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Emphasizing small-scale water infrastructure in MNREGA e.g. watershed conservation works and drought-proofing of small farms&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bringing gram panchayats centre-stage in rural drinking water supply and sanitation schemes with a devolution index monitoring the transfer of funds and functions to these elected bodies&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mandating water audits to monitor the increasing and conflicts-generating industrial use of water&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Further Readings:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Water: Towards a Paradigm Shift in the Twelfth Plan -Mihir Shah, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol xlviiI 40, No 3, January 19, 2013, &lt;a href=&quot;https://im4change.in/rural-news-update/water-towards-a-paradigm-shift-in-the-twelfth-plan-mihir-shah-18969.html&quot; 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The ongoing droughts and water crises in Maharashtra and Gujarat point to the multiple conflicts the beleaguered and scarce resource of water is likely to spark in the coming years. India is today the world&amp;rsquo;s largest consumer of groundwater, but it is clear that how we extract, harvest, distribute and manage our most precious resource cannot proceed along usual lines.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The unsustainable over-extraction is heralding a fall in the water-table and in water quality &amp;ndash; a phenomenon already witnessed in 60% of India&amp;rsquo;s districts. On the other hand, there are limits to top-down policies and big-ticket projects such as big dams and river-linking projects, which are increasingly hard to locate or sustain, and come with heavy costs. Meanwhile, the water demands from individuals to agriculture and industry grow.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In a recent analysis, Planning Commission member Mihir Shah flags the following departures in the 12th Five Year plan, arguing that this is an attempt at radical rethinking how India manages and uses its water resources:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Reforming irrigation departments and systems&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Participatory groundwater management networks spanning government, local elected bodies, civil society networks and research organisations&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Investing in systems that delink power subsidies in rural areas from supply to water extractors (e.g. tubewells) to address over-extraction of groundwater&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Emphasizing small-scale water infrastructure in MNREGA e.g. watershed conservation works and drought-proofing of small farms&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Bringing gram panchayats centre-stage in rural drinking water supply and sanitation schemes with a devolution index monitoring the transfer of funds and functions to these elected bodies&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Mandating water audits to monitor the increasing and conflicts-generating industrial use of water&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Further Readings:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
Water: Towards a Paradigm Shift in the Twelfth Plan -Mihir Shah, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol xlviiI 40, No 3, January 19, 2013, &lt;a href=&quot;../rural-news-update/water-towards-a-paradigm-shift-in-the-twelfth-plan-mihir-shah-18969.html&quot;&gt;http://www.im4change.org/rural-news-update/water-towards-a-paradigm-shift-in-the-twelfth-plan-mihir-shah-18969.html&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
The Central Water Commission&#039;s 2009 analysis of siltation in major irrigation projects
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indiawaterportal.org/node/39399&quot;&gt;http://www.indiawaterportal.org/node/39399&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The Central Groundwater Board&#039;s 2012 analysis
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://cgwb.gov.in/documents/GROUND%20WATER%20LEVEL%20SCENARIO_November-12.pdf&quot;&gt;http://cgwb.gov.in/documents/GROUND%20WATER%20LEVEL%20SCENARIO_November-12.pdf&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
An assessment of the Gujarat government&#039;s Jyotigram scheme which bifurcates rural farm and non-farm power supply in a bid to address subsidies and groundwater extraction:
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/publications/Other/PDF/NRLP%20Proceeding-2%20Paper%2015.pdf&quot;&gt;http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/publications/Other/PDF/NRLP%20Proceeding-2%20Paper%2015.pdf&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Analyses of Western India&#039;s ongoing drought:
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/drought-equity&quot;&gt;http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/drought-equity&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://sandrp.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/how-is-2012-13-maharashtra-drought-worse-than-the-one-in-1972/&quot;&gt;http://sandrp.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/how-is-2012-13-maharashtra-drought-worse-than-the-one-in-1972/&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Potential synergies between NREGA and water management and restoration works:
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;ftp://ftp.solutionexchange.net.in/public/wes/cr/res-030212010.pdf&quot;&gt;ftp://ftp.solutionexchange.net.in/public/wes/cr/res-030212010.pdf&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.observerindia.com/cms/export/orfonline/documents/NREGA.pdf&quot;&gt;http://www.observerindia.com/cms/export/orfonline/documents/NREGA.pdf&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://wrmin.nic.in/writereaddata/linkimages/Convergence913729635.pdf&quot;&gt;http://wrmin.nic.in/writereaddata/linkimages/Convergence913729635.pdf&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
Industry&#039;s competing demands for water
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indiawaterportal.org/post/39910&quot;&gt;http://www.indiawaterportal.org/post/39910&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
The Case of Maharashtra&amp;rsquo;s &lt;a href=&quot;tinymce/uploaded/The_Case_of_MaharashtrasDisappearing_Water.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Maharashtra Water&quot;&gt;Disappearing Water&lt;/a&gt;-Ajay Dandekar and Shahaji Naravade, Economic and Political Weekly, May 4, 2013, Vol xlviiI, No 18&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Image Courtesy: &lt;a href=&quot;http://awm-solutions.iwmi.org/Data/Sites/3/userfiles/149/india/hooghly-surfacewaterpumping.jpg&quot;&gt;http://awm-solutions.iwmi.org/Data/Sites/3/userfiles/149/india/hooghly-surfacewaterpumping.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; 
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                <p align="justify"><br />The ongoing droughts and water crises in Maharashtra and Gujarat point to the multiple conflicts the beleaguered and scarce resource of water is likely to spark in the coming years. India is today the world&rsquo;s largest consumer of groundwater, but it is clear that how we extract, harvest, distribute and manage our most precious resource cannot proceed along usual lines.<br /><br />The unsustainable over-extraction is heralding a fall in the water-table and in water quality &ndash; a phenomenon already witnessed in 60% of India&rsquo;s districts. On the other hand, there are limits to top-down policies and big-ticket projects such as big dams and river-linking projects, which are increasingly hard to locate or sustain, and come with heavy costs. Meanwhile, the water demands from individuals to agriculture and industry grow.<br /><br />In a recent analysis, Planning Commission member Mihir Shah flags the following departures in the 12th Five Year plan, arguing that this is an attempt at radical rethinking how India manages and uses its water resources:<br /><br />Reforming irrigation departments and systems<br /><br />Participatory groundwater management networks spanning government, local elected bodies, civil society networks and research organisations<br /><br />Investing in systems that delink power subsidies in rural areas from supply to water extractors (e.g. tubewells) to address over-extraction of groundwater<br /><br />Emphasizing small-scale water infrastructure in MNREGA e.g. watershed conservation works and drought-proofing of small farms<br /><br />Bringing gram panchayats centre-stage in rural drinking water supply and sanitation schemes with a devolution index monitoring the transfer of funds and functions to these elected bodies<br /><br />Mandating water audits to monitor the increasing and conflicts-generating industrial use of water<br />&nbsp;</p><p align="justify"><em><strong>Further Readings:</strong></em></p><div align="justify"></div><p align="justify">&nbsp;</p><p align="justify">Water: Towards a Paradigm Shift in the Twelfth Plan -Mihir Shah, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol xlviiI 40, No 3, January 19, 2013, <a href="https://im4change.in/rural-news-update/water-towards-a-paradigm-shift-in-the-twelfth-plan-mihir-shah-18969.html" title="https://im4change.in/rural-news-update/water-towards-a-paradigm-shift-in-the-twelfth-plan-mihir-shah-18969.html">http://www.im4change.org/rural-news-update/water-towards-a<br />-paradigm-shift-in-the-twelfth-plan-mihir-shah-18969.html</a>&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p align="justify">&nbsp;</p><p align="justify">The Central Water Commission's 2009 analysis of siltation in major irrigation projects</p><p align="justify"><a href="http://www.indiawaterportal.org/node/39399" title="http://www.indiawaterportal.org/node/39399">http://www.indiawaterportal.org/node/39399</a></p><p align="justify"><br />The Central Groundwater Board's 2012 analysis</p><p align="justify"><a href="http://cgwb.gov.in/documents/GROUND%20WATER%20LEVEL%20SCENARIO_November-12.pdf" title="http://cgwb.gov.in/documents/GROUND%20WATER%20LEVEL%20SCENARIO_November-12.pdf">http://cgwb.gov.in/documents/GROUND%20WATER%20LEVEL%20SCEN<br />ARIO_November-12.pdf</a></p><p align="justify"><br />An assessment of the Gujarat government's Jyotigram scheme which bifurcates rural farm and non-farm power supply in a bid to address subsidies and groundwater extraction:</p><p align="justify"><a href="http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/publications/Other/PDF/NRLP%20Proceeding-2%20Paper%2015.pdf" title="http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/publications/Other/PDF/NRLP%20Proceeding-2%20Paper%2015.pdf">http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/publications/Other/PDF/NRLP%20Pr<br />oceeding-2%20Paper%2015.pdf</a></p><p align="justify"><br />Analyses of Western India's ongoing drought:</p><p align="justify"><a href="http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/drought-equity" title="http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/drought-equity">http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/drought-equity</a></p><p align="justify"><br /><a href="http://sandrp.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/how-is-2012-13-maharashtra-drought-worse-than-the-one-in-1972/" title="http://sandrp.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/how-is-2012-13-maharashtra-drought-worse-than-the-one-in-1972/">http://sandrp.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/how-is-2012-13-maha<br />rashtra-drought-worse-than-the-one-in-1972/</a></p><p align="justify"><br />Potential synergies between NREGA and water management and restoration works:</p><p align="justify"><a href="ftp://ftp.solutionexchange.net.in/public/wes/cr/res-030212010.pdf" title="ftp://ftp.solutionexchange.net.in/public/wes/cr/res-030212010.pdf">ftp://ftp.solutionexchange.net.in/public/wes/cr/res-030212010.pdf</a></p><p align="justify"><br /><a href="http://www.observerindia.com/cms/export/orfonline/documents/NREGA.pdf" title="http://www.observerindia.com/cms/export/orfonline/documents/NREGA.pdf">http://www.observerindia.com/cms/export/orfonline/document<br />s/NREGA.pdf</a></p><p align="justify"><br /><a href="http://wrmin.nic.in/writereaddata/linkimages/Convergence913729635.pdf" title="http://wrmin.nic.in/writereaddata/linkimages/Convergence913729635.pdf">http://wrmin.nic.in/writereaddata/linkimages/Convergence91<br />3729635.pdf</a></p><p align="justify">Industry's competing demands for water</p><p align="justify"><a href="http://www.indiawaterportal.org/post/39910" title="http://www.indiawaterportal.org/post/39910">http://www.indiawaterportal.org/post/39910</a></p><p align="justify">The Case of Maharashtra&rsquo;s <a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/The_Case_of_MaharashtrasDisappearing_Water.pdf" title="Maharashtra Water" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/The_Case_of_MaharashtrasDisappearing_Water.pdf" title="Maharashtra Water">Disappearing Water</a>-Ajay Dandekar and Shahaji Naravade, Economic and Political Weekly, May 4, 2013, Vol xlviiI, No 18&nbsp;</p><p align="justify"><strong>Image Courtesy: <a href="http://awm-solutions.iwmi.org/Data/Sites/3/userfiles/149/india/hooghly-surfacewaterpumping.jpg" title="http://awm-solutions.iwmi.org/Data/Sites/3/userfiles/149/india/hooghly-surfacewaterpumping.jpg">http://awm-solutions.iwmi.org/Data/Sites/3/userfiles/149/i<br />ndia/hooghly-surfacewaterpumping.jpg</a></strong> </p>               </font>
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The ongoing droughts and water crises in Maharashtra and Gujarat point to the multiple conflicts the beleaguered and scarce resource of water is likely to spark in the coming years. India is today the world&rsquo;s largest consumer of groundwater, but it is clear that how we extract, harvest, distribute and manage our most precious resource cannot proceed along usual lines.<br />
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The unsustainable over-extraction is heralding a fall in the water-table and in water quality &ndash; a phenomenon already witnessed in 60% of India&rsquo;s districts. On the other hand, there are limits to top-down policies and big-ticket projects such as big dams and river-linking projects, which are increasingly hard to locate or sustain, and come with heavy costs. Meanwhile, the water demands from individuals to agriculture and industry grow.<br />
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In a recent analysis, Planning Commission member Mihir Shah flags the following departures in the 12th Five Year plan, arguing that this is an attempt at radical rethinking how India manages and uses its water resources:<br />
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Reforming irrigation departments and systems<br />
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Participatory groundwater management networks spanning government, local elected bodies, civil society networks and research organisations<br />
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Investing in systems that delink power subsidies in rural areas from supply to water extractors (e.g. tubewells) to address over-extraction of groundwater<br />
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Emphasizing small-scale water infrastructure in MNREGA e.g. watershed conservation works and drought-proofing of small farms<br />
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Bringing gram panchayats centre-stage in rural drinking water supply and sanitation schemes with a devolution index monitoring the transfer of funds and functions to these elected bodies<br />
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Mandating water audits to monitor the increasing and conflicts-generating industrial use of water<br />
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Water: Towards a Paradigm Shift in the Twelfth Plan -Mihir Shah, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol xlviiI 40, No 3, January 19, 2013, <a href="../rural-news-update/water-towards-a-paradigm-shift-in-the-twelfth-plan-mihir-shah-18969.html">http://www.im4change.org/rural-news-update/water-towards-a-paradigm-shift-in-the-twelfth-plan-mihir-shah-18969.html</a>&nbsp;&nbsp; 
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The Central Water Commission's 2009 analysis of siltation in major irrigation projects
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<a href="http://www.indiawaterportal.org/node/39399">http://www.indiawaterportal.org/node/39399</a>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<br />
The Central Groundwater Board's 2012 analysis
</p>
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<a href="http://cgwb.gov.in/documents/GROUND%20WATER%20LEVEL%20SCENARIO_November-12.pdf">http://cgwb.gov.in/documents/GROUND%20WATER%20LEVEL%20SCENARIO_November-12.pdf</a>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<br />
An assessment of the Gujarat government's Jyotigram scheme which bifurcates rural farm and non-farm power supply in a bid to address subsidies and groundwater extraction:
</p>
<p align="justify">
<a href="http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/publications/Other/PDF/NRLP%20Proceeding-2%20Paper%2015.pdf">http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/publications/Other/PDF/NRLP%20Proceeding-2%20Paper%2015.pdf</a>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<br />
Analyses of Western India's ongoing drought:
</p>
<p align="justify">
<a href="http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/drought-equity">http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/drought-equity</a>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<br />
<a href="http://sandrp.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/how-is-2012-13-maharashtra-drought-worse-than-the-one-in-1972/">http://sandrp.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/how-is-2012-13-maharashtra-drought-worse-than-the-one-in-1972/</a>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<br />
Potential synergies between NREGA and water management and restoration works:
</p>
<p align="justify">
<a href="ftp://ftp.solutionexchange.net.in/public/wes/cr/res-030212010.pdf">ftp://ftp.solutionexchange.net.in/public/wes/cr/res-030212010.pdf</a>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<br />
<a href="http://www.observerindia.com/cms/export/orfonline/documents/NREGA.pdf">http://www.observerindia.com/cms/export/orfonline/documents/NREGA.pdf</a>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<br />
<a href="http://wrmin.nic.in/writereaddata/linkimages/Convergence913729635.pdf">http://wrmin.nic.in/writereaddata/linkimages/Convergence913729635.pdf<br />
</a>
</p>
<p align="justify">
Industry's competing demands for water
</p>
<p align="justify">
<a href="http://www.indiawaterportal.org/post/39910">http://www.indiawaterportal.org/post/39910</a>
</p>
<p align="justify">
The Case of Maharashtra&rsquo;s <a href="tinymce/uploaded/The_Case_of_MaharashtrasDisappearing_Water.pdf" title="Maharashtra Water">Disappearing Water</a>-Ajay Dandekar and Shahaji Naravade, Economic and Political Weekly, May 4, 2013, Vol xlviiI, No 18&nbsp;
</p>
<p align="justify">
<strong>Image Courtesy: <a href="http://awm-solutions.iwmi.org/Data/Sites/3/userfiles/149/india/hooghly-surfacewaterpumping.jpg">http://awm-solutions.iwmi.org/Data/Sites/3/userfiles/149/india/hooghly-surfacewaterpumping.jpg</a></strong> 
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The ongoing droughts and water crises in Maharashtra and Gujarat point to the multiple conflicts the beleaguered and scarce resource of water is likely to spark in the coming years. India is today the world&rsquo;s largest consumer of groundwater, but...',
	'disp' => '<p align="justify"><br />The ongoing droughts and water crises in Maharashtra and Gujarat point to the multiple conflicts the beleaguered and scarce resource of water is likely to spark in the coming years. India is today the world&rsquo;s largest consumer of groundwater, but it is clear that how we extract, harvest, distribute and manage our most precious resource cannot proceed along usual lines.<br /><br />The unsustainable over-extraction is heralding a fall in the water-table and in water quality &ndash; a phenomenon already witnessed in 60% of India&rsquo;s districts. On the other hand, there are limits to top-down policies and big-ticket projects such as big dams and river-linking projects, which are increasingly hard to locate or sustain, and come with heavy costs. Meanwhile, the water demands from individuals to agriculture and industry grow.<br /><br />In a recent analysis, Planning Commission member Mihir Shah flags the following departures in the 12th Five Year plan, arguing that this is an attempt at radical rethinking how India manages and uses its water resources:<br /><br />Reforming irrigation departments and systems<br /><br />Participatory groundwater management networks spanning government, local elected bodies, civil society networks and research organisations<br /><br />Investing in systems that delink power subsidies in rural areas from supply to water extractors (e.g. tubewells) to address over-extraction of groundwater<br /><br />Emphasizing small-scale water infrastructure in MNREGA e.g. watershed conservation works and drought-proofing of small farms<br /><br />Bringing gram panchayats centre-stage in rural drinking water supply and sanitation schemes with a devolution index monitoring the transfer of funds and functions to these elected bodies<br /><br />Mandating water audits to monitor the increasing and conflicts-generating industrial use of water<br />&nbsp;</p><p align="justify"><em><strong>Further Readings:</strong></em></p><div align="justify"></div><p align="justify">&nbsp;</p><p align="justify">Water: Towards a Paradigm Shift in the Twelfth Plan -Mihir Shah, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol xlviiI 40, No 3, January 19, 2013, <a href="https://im4change.in/rural-news-update/water-towards-a-paradigm-shift-in-the-twelfth-plan-mihir-shah-18969.html" title="https://im4change.in/rural-news-update/water-towards-a-paradigm-shift-in-the-twelfth-plan-mihir-shah-18969.html">http://www.im4change.org/rural-news-update/water-towards-a<br />-paradigm-shift-in-the-twelfth-plan-mihir-shah-18969.html</a>&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p align="justify">&nbsp;</p><p align="justify">The Central Water Commission's 2009 analysis of siltation in major irrigation projects</p><p align="justify"><a href="http://www.indiawaterportal.org/node/39399" title="http://www.indiawaterportal.org/node/39399">http://www.indiawaterportal.org/node/39399</a></p><p align="justify"><br />The Central Groundwater Board's 2012 analysis</p><p align="justify"><a href="http://cgwb.gov.in/documents/GROUND%20WATER%20LEVEL%20SCENARIO_November-12.pdf" title="http://cgwb.gov.in/documents/GROUND%20WATER%20LEVEL%20SCENARIO_November-12.pdf">http://cgwb.gov.in/documents/GROUND%20WATER%20LEVEL%20SCEN<br />ARIO_November-12.pdf</a></p><p align="justify"><br />An assessment of the Gujarat government's Jyotigram scheme which bifurcates rural farm and non-farm power supply in a bid to address subsidies and groundwater extraction:</p><p align="justify"><a href="http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/publications/Other/PDF/NRLP%20Proceeding-2%20Paper%2015.pdf" title="http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/publications/Other/PDF/NRLP%20Proceeding-2%20Paper%2015.pdf">http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/publications/Other/PDF/NRLP%20Pr<br />oceeding-2%20Paper%2015.pdf</a></p><p align="justify"><br />Analyses of Western India's ongoing drought:</p><p align="justify"><a href="http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/drought-equity" title="http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/drought-equity">http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/drought-equity</a></p><p align="justify"><br /><a href="http://sandrp.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/how-is-2012-13-maharashtra-drought-worse-than-the-one-in-1972/" title="http://sandrp.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/how-is-2012-13-maharashtra-drought-worse-than-the-one-in-1972/">http://sandrp.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/how-is-2012-13-maha<br />rashtra-drought-worse-than-the-one-in-1972/</a></p><p align="justify"><br />Potential synergies between NREGA and water management and restoration works:</p><p align="justify"><a href="ftp://ftp.solutionexchange.net.in/public/wes/cr/res-030212010.pdf" title="ftp://ftp.solutionexchange.net.in/public/wes/cr/res-030212010.pdf">ftp://ftp.solutionexchange.net.in/public/wes/cr/res-030212010.pdf</a></p><p align="justify"><br /><a href="http://www.observerindia.com/cms/export/orfonline/documents/NREGA.pdf" title="http://www.observerindia.com/cms/export/orfonline/documents/NREGA.pdf">http://www.observerindia.com/cms/export/orfonline/document<br />s/NREGA.pdf</a></p><p align="justify"><br /><a href="http://wrmin.nic.in/writereaddata/linkimages/Convergence913729635.pdf" title="http://wrmin.nic.in/writereaddata/linkimages/Convergence913729635.pdf">http://wrmin.nic.in/writereaddata/linkimages/Convergence91<br />3729635.pdf</a></p><p align="justify">Industry's competing demands for water</p><p align="justify"><a href="http://www.indiawaterportal.org/post/39910" title="http://www.indiawaterportal.org/post/39910">http://www.indiawaterportal.org/post/39910</a></p><p align="justify">The Case of Maharashtra&rsquo;s <a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/The_Case_of_MaharashtrasDisappearing_Water.pdf" title="Maharashtra Water" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/The_Case_of_MaharashtrasDisappearing_Water.pdf" title="Maharashtra Water">Disappearing Water</a>-Ajay Dandekar and Shahaji Naravade, Economic and Political Weekly, May 4, 2013, Vol xlviiI, No 18&nbsp;</p><p align="justify"><strong>Image Courtesy: <a href="http://awm-solutions.iwmi.org/Data/Sites/3/userfiles/149/india/hooghly-surfacewaterpumping.jpg" title="http://awm-solutions.iwmi.org/Data/Sites/3/userfiles/149/india/hooghly-surfacewaterpumping.jpg">http://awm-solutions.iwmi.org/Data/Sites/3/userfiles/149/i<br />ndia/hooghly-surfacewaterpumping.jpg</a></strong> </p>',
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<br />
The ongoing droughts and water crises in Maharashtra and Gujarat point to the multiple conflicts the beleaguered and scarce resource of water is likely to spark in the coming years. India is today the world&rsquo;s largest consumer of groundwater, but it is clear that how we extract, harvest, distribute and manage our most precious resource cannot proceed along usual lines.<br />
<br />
The unsustainable over-extraction is heralding a fall in the water-table and in water quality &ndash; a phenomenon already witnessed in 60% of India&rsquo;s districts. On the other hand, there are limits to top-down policies and big-ticket projects such as big dams and river-linking projects, which are increasingly hard to locate or sustain, and come with heavy costs. Meanwhile, the water demands from individuals to agriculture and industry grow.<br />
<br />
In a recent analysis, Planning Commission member Mihir Shah flags the following departures in the 12th Five Year plan, arguing that this is an attempt at radical rethinking how India manages and uses its water resources:<br />
<br />
Reforming irrigation departments and systems<br />
<br />
Participatory groundwater management networks spanning government, local elected bodies, civil society networks and research organisations<br />
<br />
Investing in systems that delink power subsidies in rural areas from supply to water extractors (e.g. tubewells) to address over-extraction of groundwater<br />
<br />
Emphasizing small-scale water infrastructure in MNREGA e.g. watershed conservation works and drought-proofing of small farms<br />
<br />
Bringing gram panchayats centre-stage in rural drinking water supply and sanitation schemes with a devolution index monitoring the transfer of funds and functions to these elected bodies<br />
<br />
Mandating water audits to monitor the increasing and conflicts-generating industrial use of water<br />
&nbsp;
</p>
<p align="justify">
<em><strong>Further Readings:</strong></em>
</p>
<div align="justify">
</div>
<p align="justify">
&nbsp;
</p>
<p align="justify">
Water: Towards a Paradigm Shift in the Twelfth Plan -Mihir Shah, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol xlviiI 40, No 3, January 19, 2013, <a href="../rural-news-update/water-towards-a-paradigm-shift-in-the-twelfth-plan-mihir-shah-18969.html">http://www.im4change.org/rural-news-update/water-towards-a-paradigm-shift-in-the-twelfth-plan-mihir-shah-18969.html</a>&nbsp;&nbsp; 
</p>
<p align="justify">
&nbsp;
</p>
<p align="justify">
The Central Water Commission's 2009 analysis of siltation in major irrigation projects
</p>
<p align="justify">
<a href="http://www.indiawaterportal.org/node/39399">http://www.indiawaterportal.org/node/39399</a>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<br />
The Central Groundwater Board's 2012 analysis
</p>
<p align="justify">
<a href="http://cgwb.gov.in/documents/GROUND%20WATER%20LEVEL%20SCENARIO_November-12.pdf">http://cgwb.gov.in/documents/GROUND%20WATER%20LEVEL%20SCENARIO_November-12.pdf</a>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<br />
An assessment of the Gujarat government's Jyotigram scheme which bifurcates rural farm and non-farm power supply in a bid to address subsidies and groundwater extraction:
</p>
<p align="justify">
<a href="http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/publications/Other/PDF/NRLP%20Proceeding-2%20Paper%2015.pdf">http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/publications/Other/PDF/NRLP%20Proceeding-2%20Paper%2015.pdf</a>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<br />
Analyses of Western India's ongoing drought:
</p>
<p align="justify">
<a href="http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/drought-equity">http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/drought-equity</a>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<br />
<a href="http://sandrp.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/how-is-2012-13-maharashtra-drought-worse-than-the-one-in-1972/">http://sandrp.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/how-is-2012-13-maharashtra-drought-worse-than-the-one-in-1972/</a>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<br />
Potential synergies between NREGA and water management and restoration works:
</p>
<p align="justify">
<a href="ftp://ftp.solutionexchange.net.in/public/wes/cr/res-030212010.pdf">ftp://ftp.solutionexchange.net.in/public/wes/cr/res-030212010.pdf</a>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<br />
<a href="http://www.observerindia.com/cms/export/orfonline/documents/NREGA.pdf">http://www.observerindia.com/cms/export/orfonline/documents/NREGA.pdf</a>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<br />
<a href="http://wrmin.nic.in/writereaddata/linkimages/Convergence913729635.pdf">http://wrmin.nic.in/writereaddata/linkimages/Convergence913729635.pdf<br />
</a>
</p>
<p align="justify">
Industry's competing demands for water
</p>
<p align="justify">
<a href="http://www.indiawaterportal.org/post/39910">http://www.indiawaterportal.org/post/39910</a>
</p>
<p align="justify">
The Case of Maharashtra&rsquo;s <a href="tinymce/uploaded/The_Case_of_MaharashtrasDisappearing_Water.pdf" title="Maharashtra Water">Disappearing Water</a>-Ajay Dandekar and Shahaji Naravade, Economic and Political Weekly, May 4, 2013, Vol xlviiI, No 18&nbsp;
</p>
<p align="justify">
<strong>Image Courtesy: <a href="http://awm-solutions.iwmi.org/Data/Sites/3/userfiles/149/india/hooghly-surfacewaterpumping.jpg">http://awm-solutions.iwmi.org/Data/Sites/3/userfiles/149/india/hooghly-surfacewaterpumping.jpg</a></strong> 
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$disp = '<p align="justify"><br />The ongoing droughts and water crises in Maharashtra and Gujarat point to the multiple conflicts the beleaguered and scarce resource of water is likely to spark in the coming years. India is today the world&rsquo;s largest consumer of groundwater, but it is clear that how we extract, harvest, distribute and manage our most precious resource cannot proceed along usual lines.<br /><br />The unsustainable over-extraction is heralding a fall in the water-table and in water quality &ndash; a phenomenon already witnessed in 60% of India&rsquo;s districts. On the other hand, there are limits to top-down policies and big-ticket projects such as big dams and river-linking projects, which are increasingly hard to locate or sustain, and come with heavy costs. Meanwhile, the water demands from individuals to agriculture and industry grow.<br /><br />In a recent analysis, Planning Commission member Mihir Shah flags the following departures in the 12th Five Year plan, arguing that this is an attempt at radical rethinking how India manages and uses its water resources:<br /><br />Reforming irrigation departments and systems<br /><br />Participatory groundwater management networks spanning government, local elected bodies, civil society networks and research organisations<br /><br />Investing in systems that delink power subsidies in rural areas from supply to water extractors (e.g. tubewells) to address over-extraction of groundwater<br /><br />Emphasizing small-scale water infrastructure in MNREGA e.g. watershed conservation works and drought-proofing of small farms<br /><br />Bringing gram panchayats centre-stage in rural drinking water supply and sanitation schemes with a devolution index monitoring the transfer of funds and functions to these elected bodies<br /><br />Mandating water audits to monitor the increasing and conflicts-generating industrial use of water<br />&nbsp;</p><p align="justify"><em><strong>Further Readings:</strong></em></p><div align="justify"></div><p align="justify">&nbsp;</p><p align="justify">Water: Towards a Paradigm Shift in the Twelfth Plan -Mihir Shah, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol xlviiI 40, No 3, January 19, 2013, <a href="https://im4change.in/rural-news-update/water-towards-a-paradigm-shift-in-the-twelfth-plan-mihir-shah-18969.html" title="https://im4change.in/rural-news-update/water-towards-a-paradigm-shift-in-the-twelfth-plan-mihir-shah-18969.html">http://www.im4change.org/rural-news-update/water-towards-a<br />-paradigm-shift-in-the-twelfth-plan-mihir-shah-18969.html</a>&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p align="justify">&nbsp;</p><p align="justify">The Central Water Commission's 2009 analysis of siltation in major irrigation projects</p><p align="justify"><a href="http://www.indiawaterportal.org/node/39399" title="http://www.indiawaterportal.org/node/39399">http://www.indiawaterportal.org/node/39399</a></p><p align="justify"><br />The Central Groundwater Board's 2012 analysis</p><p align="justify"><a href="http://cgwb.gov.in/documents/GROUND%20WATER%20LEVEL%20SCENARIO_November-12.pdf" title="http://cgwb.gov.in/documents/GROUND%20WATER%20LEVEL%20SCENARIO_November-12.pdf">http://cgwb.gov.in/documents/GROUND%20WATER%20LEVEL%20SCEN<br />ARIO_November-12.pdf</a></p><p align="justify"><br />An assessment of the Gujarat government's Jyotigram scheme which bifurcates rural farm and non-farm power supply in a bid to address subsidies and groundwater extraction:</p><p align="justify"><a href="http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/publications/Other/PDF/NRLP%20Proceeding-2%20Paper%2015.pdf" title="http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/publications/Other/PDF/NRLP%20Proceeding-2%20Paper%2015.pdf">http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/publications/Other/PDF/NRLP%20Pr<br />oceeding-2%20Paper%2015.pdf</a></p><p align="justify"><br />Analyses of Western India's ongoing drought:</p><p align="justify"><a href="http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/drought-equity" title="http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/drought-equity">http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/drought-equity</a></p><p align="justify"><br /><a href="http://sandrp.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/how-is-2012-13-maharashtra-drought-worse-than-the-one-in-1972/" title="http://sandrp.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/how-is-2012-13-maharashtra-drought-worse-than-the-one-in-1972/">http://sandrp.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/how-is-2012-13-maha<br />rashtra-drought-worse-than-the-one-in-1972/</a></p><p align="justify"><br />Potential synergies between NREGA and water management and restoration works:</p><p align="justify"><a href="ftp://ftp.solutionexchange.net.in/public/wes/cr/res-030212010.pdf" title="ftp://ftp.solutionexchange.net.in/public/wes/cr/res-030212010.pdf">ftp://ftp.solutionexchange.net.in/public/wes/cr/res-030212010.pdf</a></p><p align="justify"><br /><a href="http://www.observerindia.com/cms/export/orfonline/documents/NREGA.pdf" title="http://www.observerindia.com/cms/export/orfonline/documents/NREGA.pdf">http://www.observerindia.com/cms/export/orfonline/document<br />s/NREGA.pdf</a></p><p align="justify"><br /><a href="http://wrmin.nic.in/writereaddata/linkimages/Convergence913729635.pdf" title="http://wrmin.nic.in/writereaddata/linkimages/Convergence913729635.pdf">http://wrmin.nic.in/writereaddata/linkimages/Convergence91<br />3729635.pdf</a></p><p align="justify">Industry's competing demands for water</p><p align="justify"><a href="http://www.indiawaterportal.org/post/39910" title="http://www.indiawaterportal.org/post/39910">http://www.indiawaterportal.org/post/39910</a></p><p align="justify">The Case of Maharashtra&rsquo;s <a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/The_Case_of_MaharashtrasDisappearing_Water.pdf" title="Maharashtra Water" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/The_Case_of_MaharashtrasDisappearing_Water.pdf" title="Maharashtra Water">Disappearing Water</a>-Ajay Dandekar and Shahaji Naravade, Economic and Political Weekly, May 4, 2013, Vol xlviiI, No 18&nbsp;</p><p align="justify"><strong>Image Courtesy: <a href="http://awm-solutions.iwmi.org/Data/Sites/3/userfiles/149/india/hooghly-surfacewaterpumping.jpg" title="http://awm-solutions.iwmi.org/Data/Sites/3/userfiles/149/india/hooghly-surfacewaterpumping.jpg">http://awm-solutions.iwmi.org/Data/Sites/3/userfiles/149/i<br />ndia/hooghly-surfacewaterpumping.jpg</a></strong> </p>'
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Water: India’s Big Resource Challenge

The ongoing droughts and water crises in Maharashtra and Gujarat point to the multiple conflicts the beleaguered and scarce resource of water is likely to spark in the coming years. India is today the world’s largest consumer of groundwater, but it is clear that how we extract, harvest, distribute and manage our most precious resource cannot proceed along usual lines. The unsustainable over-extraction is heralding a fall in the water-table and in water quality – a phenomenon already witnessed in 60% of India’s districts. On the other hand, there are limits to top-down policies and big-ticket projects such as big dams and river-linking projects, which are increasingly hard to locate or sustain, and come with heavy costs. Meanwhile, the water demands from individuals to agriculture and industry grow. In a recent analysis, Planning Commission member Mihir Shah flags the following departures in the 12th Five Year plan, arguing that this is an attempt at radical rethinking how India manages and uses its water resources: Reforming irrigation departments and systems Participatory groundwater management networks spanning government, local elected bodies, civil society networks and research organisations Investing in systems that delink power subsidies in rural areas from supply to water extractors (e.g. tubewells) to address over-extraction of groundwater Emphasizing small-scale water infrastructure in MNREGA e.g. watershed conservation works and drought-proofing of small farms Bringing gram panchayats centre-stage in rural drinking water supply and sanitation schemes with a devolution index monitoring the transfer of funds and functions to these elected bodies Mandating water audits to monitor the increasing and conflicts-generating industrial use of water   Further Readings:   Water: Towards a Paradigm Shift in the Twelfth Plan -Mihir Shah, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol xlviiI 40, No 3, January 19, 2013, http://www.im4change.org/rural-news-update/water-towards-a -paradigm-shift-in-the-twelfth-plan-mihir-shah-18969.html     The Central Water Commission's 2009 analysis of siltation in major irrigation projects http://www.indiawaterportal.org/node/39399 The Central Groundwater Board's 2012 analysis http://cgwb.gov.in/documents/GROUND%20WATER%20LEVEL%20SCEN ARIO_November-12.pdf An assessment of the Gujarat government's Jyotigram scheme which bifurcates rural farm and non-farm power supply in a bid to address subsidies and groundwater extraction: http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/publications/Other/PDF/NRLP%20Pr oceeding-2%20Paper%2015.pdf Analyses of Western India's ongoing drought: http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/drought-equity http://sandrp.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/how-is-2012-13-maha rashtra-drought-worse-than-the-one-in-1972/ Potential synergies between NREGA and water management and restoration works: ftp://ftp.solutionexchange.net.in/public/wes/cr/res-030212010.pdf http://www.observerindia.com/cms/export/orfonline/document s/NREGA.pdf http://wrmin.nic.in/writereaddata/linkimages/Convergence91 3729635.pdf Industry's competing demands for water http://www.indiawaterportal.org/post/39910 The Case of Maharashtra’s Disappearing Water-Ajay Dandekar and Shahaji Naravade, Economic and Political Weekly, May 4, 2013, Vol xlviiI, No 18  Image Courtesy: http://awm-solutions.iwmi.org/Data/Sites/3/userfiles/149/i ndia/hooghly-surfacewaterpumping.jpg