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008			140605s2014 nyu b 001 0 eng
020			_a9781441189523 (HB)
020			_a9781441179364 (PB)
041			_aeng
082	0	0	_a333.9100 _bAST
100	1		_aAsthana, Vandana. _99929
245	1	0	_aWater security in India : _bhope, despair, and the challenges of human development / _cVandana Asthana and A. C. Shukla.
260			_aUK _bBloomsbury Academic _c2014
300			_axvii, 394 pages ;
520			_a"Few people actively engaged in India's water sector would deny that the Indian subcontinent faces serious problems in the sustainable use and management of water resources. Water resources in India have been subjected to tremendous pressures from increasing population, urbanization, industrialization, and modern agricultural methods. The inadequate access to clean drinking water, increase in water related disasters such as floods and droughts, vulnerability to climate change and competition for the resource amongst different sectors and the region poses immense pressures for sustainability of water systems and humanity. Water Security in India addresses these issues head on, analyzing the challenges that contemporary India faces if it is to create a water-secure world, and providing a hopeful, though guarded, road-map to a future in which India's life-giving and life-sustaining fresh water resources are safe, clean, plentiful, and available to all, secured for the people in a peaceful and ecologically sustainable manner"--
650		0	_aWater security _99930
650		0	_aWater supply _xManagement. _99931
650		0	_aWater resources development _xGovernment policy _98214
650		7	_aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / Comparative. _99932
650		7	_aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy. _99933
700	1		_aShukla, A. C. _99934
942			_cBK
999			_c30186 _d30186