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Energy Irrigation Nexus in
South Asia:
Catching the Bull by the Horn
(rather than the tail)
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Time, Date
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1030 -
1330 hours, 27th January 2003 |
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Panel
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Christopher
Scott, H Panda, D N Rao |
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Coordinator
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Avinash
Kishore |
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Contact
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a.kishore@cgiar.org |
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- In the populous South Asian region, where pump
irrigation, mostly from open and tubewells, has gained ascendance
over gravity-flow irrigation in recent decades, the fortunes
of groundwater and energy economies are closely tied. New
paradigms in water resource management-which advocate pursuit
of basin-level water productivity in favor of classical water
use efficiency-assume that energy costs of irrigation are
zero or insignificant relative to the social cost of water.
But in South Asia, which uses energy worth US $ 5-6 billion/year
(Indian Rs 25000 crores) to pump some 210 km3 of
water mostly for irrigation, classical efficiency would be
difficult to dislodge because it optimizes water as well as
energy use at once, whereas the notion of basin-level water
productivity ensures optimal water sector outcomes but sub-optimal
energy sector outcomes. Little can be done in the groundwater
economy that will not affect the energy economy; and the struggle
to make the energy economy viable is frustrated by often violent
opposition from farming community to efforts to rationalize
energy prices. As a result, the region's groundwater economy
has boomed by bleeding the energy economy. Does it have to
be so? Or are there approaches to sustaining a prosperous
groundwater economy with viable power sector?
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Author(s) / Speaker(s)
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PPT
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Topic
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| Christopher
Scott |
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Session
Inauguration |
| Tushaar
Shah, Christopher Scott, Avinash Kishore and Abhishek Sharma |
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Energy-Irrigation
Nexus in South Asia: Approaches to Agrarian Prosperity with Viable
Power Industry |
| P. Narayana |
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Economics
of Supply of Power to Agriculture Sector to Establish Linkages
for Energy-Water Co-Management |
| Avinash Kishore
and Shilp Verma |
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Pumping Behaviour
under Different Tariff Regimes: The Anand Survey |
| C
Scott, Tushaar Shah and Stephanie J. Buechler |
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Energy
Pricing and Supply for GW Demand Management: Lessons from Mexican
Agriculture |
| K Palanisami
and D Suresh Kumar |
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Power Pricing,
Groundwater Extraction, Use and Management : Comparison of Andhra
Pradesh and Tamilnadu |
| Animisha Singh
and Sanjolie Batra |
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Evolving a
Proactive Supply Management Regime for Agricultural Power Supply |
| D
N Rao |
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Community
Intermediation in Rural Power Distribution |
| KJ Joy and
Suhas Paranjpe |
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Energy-water
Co-management Opportunities and Challenges in the Tembu Lift Irrigation
Scheme, Maharashtra |
| Christopher
Scott |
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Energy Irrigation
Nexus: The Challenges Ahead |
| All Participants |
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Panel Discussion |
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