INDIA

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INDIAS WATER FUTURES TO 2025/2050 ISSUES
AND SCENARIOS
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Indias Water Futures to 2025/2050 Scenarios
and Issues

• Phase I Workshop of the The Strategic Analysis
  of Indias River Linking Project NRLP
• Project is part of the Challenge Program for
  Water and Food CPWF
• IWMI is lead center of the project
• Tushaar Shah - Poject leader
• Upali Amarasinghe Coordinate the activities
  from IWMI Delhi office
• Project Web site - http//nrlp.iwmi.org

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IWMI-CP project - NRLP analysis
Phase I Indias Water Futures Analysis
April 2005- April 2006
3 Y E A R S
Phase II Analysis of NRLP- How adequate is it?
January 2006- March 2007
Phase III Alternative water sector perspective
plan
April 2007-April 2008
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Why another Water Futures analysis?

• NRLP is based on Water Futures projections of
  NCIWRD commission
• Hardened positions with inadequate analysis
• Against NRLP- says there is inadequate analysis
  of alternative options
• For NRLP- says that considering the magnitude of
  the water crisis, NRLP is the only option
• Key Missing Issues
• What is the magnitude of crisis itself?
• Why interlinking was chosen as the best option?
• What is the scope of the alternatives?

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Phase I Research Activities

• Water Availability, Potentially utilizable water
  resources of river basins
• Mr. AD Mohile / BK Anand
• Environmental water Demand of Indian River Basin
• Vladimir Smakhtin / M.Anputhas/WWF/
• Regional demographic projections
• Aslam Mahmhood / Amitabh Kundu
• Regional economic growth/Industrial and service
  sector water demand
• KV Raju / RS Deshapande

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Phase I Research Activities

• 5. Changes in regional consumption patterns
  Implications for food and feed demand
• OP Singh/Sanjive Phansalkar
• WTO - Increasing world trade Implications for
  irrigation water demand
• Charlotte de Fraiture/RPS Malik/Shilp Verma
• 7. Future of irrigation/Agriculture
• Anik Bhaduri/Upali Amarasinghe/Tushaar Shah
• 8. Potential of rainfed agriculture in India
• Bharat Sharma/ K.P.R.VIttal/K.J.Rao

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Phase I Research Activities

• Spread of Water saving technologies/ Water
  productivity improvements/ Rainwater harvesting
• Dinesh Kumar/Madar Samad/OP Singh/K Palanisamy/
• 10. Intensification of groundwater irrigation-
  Environmental impacts and implications for water
  supply and demand
• Sundar Krishnan,
• 11. Water Supply and Demand of India Scenarios
  and Issues
• Upali Amarasinghe/Tushaar Shah/Shilp Verma/Frank
  Rijisberman

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Indias water futures scenario analysis

• Grain and non-grain crop demand projections
• Regional demographic patterns
• Regional economic growth
• Food consumption patterns
• Feed demand
• Increasing food trade/National self sufficiency
  targets

• Water availability assessments
• Total/Potentially utilizable water resources
• Environmental water demand

• Water Demand projections
• Irrigated water demand
• Water saving technologies
• Water productivity growth
• Rain water harvesting
• Domestic water demand
• Industrial/Service sector water demand

• Grain and non-grain crop production projections
• Future of irrigation/ agriculture
• Rainfed potential
• Water productivity improvements
• Groundwater irrigation

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Second Phase - Analysis of NRLP

• Inception workshop in April
• Advisory committee meeting in May
• Workshop 1, Phase II in December
• Workshop 2, Phase II in March 2007

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Thank you