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Taming the Anarchy Groundwater Governance in South Asia

By: Tushaar Shah
300 pages, figs, tabs
Taming the Anarchy
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  • Taming the Anarchy ISBN: 9781933115603 Hardback Dec 2008 Out of stock with supplier: order now to get this when available
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About this book

In 1947, British India - the part of South Asia that is today's India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh - emerged from the colonial era with the world's largest centrally managed canal irrigation infrastructure. However, as illustrated by the author, the orderly irrigation economy that saved millions of rural poor from droughts and famines is now a vast atomistic system of widely dispersed tube-wells that are drawing groundwater without permits or hindrances. This book examines the development of this chaos and the prospects to bring it under control.

Contents

About the Author Preface Introduction 1. The Hydraulic Past: Irrigation and State Formation 2. Rise of the Colossus 3. The Future of Flow Irrigation 4. Wells and Welfare 5. Diminishing Returns? 6. Aquifers and Institutions 7. Can the Anarchy be Tamed? 8. Thriving in Anarchy Endnotes Glossary of Hindi and Other Terms References Index

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Tushaar Shah is a senior adviser to the director general at the International Water Management Institute in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
By: Tushaar Shah
300 pages, figs, tabs
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Likely to have a significant impact, both on decisionmaking and future research in the region....South Asia can be seen as a proving ground for the groundwater boom and bust cycles that will inevitably play themselves out in other regions. - Christopher Scott, University of Arizona "Very likely to be a book that will significantly shape the debate on India's irrigation economy, particularly the groundwater economy. The book will push many people to think 'outside of their box.'" - Peter P. Mollinga, University of Bonn"
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