TypeBook Chapter
Subjects
- Poverty/food security/livelihoods
- Water productivity
- Groundwater
- Energy
- Institutions/governance/policies/reforms
- River basins
Languageen
Research Themes
The basins of the Indus and Ganges rivers cover 2.20 million km2 and are inhabited by more than a billion people. The region is under extreme pressures of population and poverty, unregulated utilization of the resources and low levels of productivity. The needs are: (1) development policies that are regionally differentiated to ensure resource sustainability and high productivity; (2) immediate development and implementation of policies for sound groundwater management and energy use; (3) improvement of the fragile food security and to broaden its base; and (4) policy changes to address land fragmentation and improved infrastructure. Meeting these needs will help to improve productivity, reduce rural poverty and improve overall human development.
Citation
Sharma, Bharat; Amarasinghe, Upali; Cai, Xueliang; de Condappa, D.; Shah, Tushaar; Mukherji, Aditi; Bharati, Luna; Ambili, G. K.; Qureshi, Asad Sarwar; Pant, Dhruba; Xenarios, Stefanos; Singh, R.; Smakhtin, Vladimir. 2012. The Indus and the Ganges: river basins under extreme pressure. In Fisher, M.; Cook, Simon (Eds.). Water, food and poverty in river basins: defining the limits. London, UK: Routledge. pp.30-58.
Authors
- Sharma, Bharat R.
- Amarasinghe, Upali A.
- Shah, Tushaar
- Bharati, Luna
- Ambili, G.K.
- Qureshi, Asad Sarwar
- Singh, R.
- Smakhtin, Vladimir U.
- Xueliang Cai
- Condappa, D. de
- Mukherji, Aditi
- Pant, Dhruba
- Xenarios, Stefanos