Technological Solutions for Water Sustainability: Challenges and Prospects: Towards a Water-secure India
This book provides an overview of technical sustainable water management in the Global South, mainly in India, and is structured in five sections:
The current status and challenges for sustainable water management in India
New-age materials for water and wastewater treatment
New technologies for water and wastewater treatment
Sensors for water quality monitoring
Urban water management
Section 1 provides the latest information about the status and challenges for sustainable water management in India from the perspective of water quality, industrial and domestic wastewater treatment, urban water infrastructure and policy and governance towards water security. Section 2 discusses new framework solids for water purification, new materials for arsenic and fluoride removal, nanocomposites for water and wastewater treatment and removal of hazardous materials, and toxicity of these materials. Section 3 presents the new technologies developed for water and wastewater treatment; dealing with pulsed power technology, constructed wetlands, nutrient recovery, low-cost filters and pollution abatement using waste derived materials. Section 4 focuses on sensors, including the development of low-cost colorimetric sensors for eutrophying ions, sensors for conductivity and flow parameters, and multi-analyte assessment for water quality. Finally, Section 5 addresses the issues related to urban water infrastructure, sustainable urban drainage and integrated flood and water scarcity management.
This section also discusses virtual water.
The unique feature of this edited volume is its special perspective on emerging economies in the Global South, such as India. It provides information about adaption of technologies, development of new technologies, and management practices which are context driven and region specific. It also deals with economical and easy to use sensors for large-scale monitoring of water quality and water quantity parameters.
ISBN: 9781789063707 (paperback)
ISBN: 9781789063714 (eBook)
Chapter 5: Designing water policy in India as adaptive governance for sustainability
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Published:November 2023
Sudhir Chella Rajan, Christoph Woiwode, 2023. "Designing water policy in India as adaptive governance for sustainability", Technological Solutions for Water Sustainability: Challenges and Prospects: Towards a Water-secure India, Ligy Philip, Thalappil Pradeep, S. Murty Bhallamudi
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India's governance regimes for water have always been important, given its vast size, development challenges, and administrative and ecological complexity. Their effective and legitimate implementation has a new urgency in the context of climate change, leading to widespread interest in ‘adaptive governance’. The term ‘adaptive water governance’ clearly takes on different meanings across contexts, ranging from transboundary institutions and riverine institutions, through national-level wetlands coastal, groundwater and wastewater policy to state-level, metropolitan and village-level institutions. These diverse governance constellations are crucial for managing natural hazards such as floods and storm surges, irrigation, industrial uses, drinking water supply, wastewater and local water bodies and their hydrology. Furthermore, in addition to formal (governmental) forms of regulation and management, there are many other non-formal or semi-formal collective forms of water management involving non-governmental organizations, farmer groups, water user associations, corporations, and self-help groups.