Sustainable Development: The Power of Water to Ease Poverty and Ehnance Ecology

Language: English

Published by Daya Publishing House, 2018

8170356164 / 9788170356165

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The Earth’s thirsty and burgeoning human population is confronted today with the reality of an unchanging freshwater supply-a disparity that grows worse each year. Global water usages have increased six fold during the last century, and policymakers and politicians have met this increasing demand by building larger dams. Can these megadams solve chronic water shortages, poverty, and future food security? Proponents have argued that bigger dams are better; they increase irrigation opportunities, provide water to drought-prone areas, reduce flooding, and supply hydropower. However, opponents have found that the social costs of displacement due to dams are as dramatic as the ecological cost. Evidence from semi-arid regions of western India has shown that a more sustainable solution may be to build instead numerous check dams-small barriers using stones, cement, steel and concrete built across the direction of water flow on rivers to harvest rainwater. In this book, the author based on his research conducted at the NM Sadguru Water and Development Foundation introduces the pressing issues of water management in the drylands of India emphasizing sustainable development. This monograph highlights a variety of development issues involving water resources, lift irrigation, agriculture, floriculture, sanitation, renewable energy, and human ecology. Therefore this book should serve as an introductory, supplementary and reference text for sustainable development, natural resource management, ecology, water resource management, agriculture, renewable energy, and rural development courses in colleges, universities and other institutes of higher learning around the globe. (jacket).

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Title
Sustainable Development: The Power of Water to Ease Poverty and Ehnance Ecology
Author
Govindasamy Agoramoorthy
Publisher
Daya Publishing House
Publication year
2018
Condition
New
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
ISBN 10
8170356164
ISBN 13
9788170356165
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2nd Edition

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