Groundwater

G d Management
M in
i Asia
A i –
Potential Research Areas

Devesh Sharma
TERI University, India
(devesh.sharma@teriuniversity.ac.in)

Presentation Outline

 TERI’s KnowledgeHub
 TERI
TERI’ss Activities in Water Management
 Groundwater Management - Potential Research
Areas
 TERI’s Expertise
p

TERI is an autonomous
autonomous, not-for-profit
not for profit international
think tank
One of the world leaders in climate change research
Extensive global outreach (N. America, Europe, CIS
countries, Central Asia and Middle East, S. Asia,
p and Africa))
Japan
Multi-disciplinary team (hydrologist, economist, water
quality expert, engineers, sociologist)
Other running knowledge networks
Business Council for Sustainable Development,
Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership

3 CIS=common wealth of independent states

TERI: Regional Knowledge Hub for Water and

g Adaptation
Climate Change p in South Asia

Officially launched on 4 Feb

Feb,
2010 during DSDS 2010
Launched by Hon. Minister of
Water Resources,, Government
of India
Attended by august audiences
and partners from Water Aid,
UNICEF and d D
Department
t t off
Science & Technology,
Department of Drinking Water &
Sanitation, Govt. of India,
The launch of website of
knowledge hub,
www.waterknowledgehub.org

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 About Knowledge
g Hub

VISION MISSION

To ensure equitable
T it bl To facilitate
T f ilit t prudent
d t
and sustainable access and effective water
to safe water for all management
g in South
Asia - a region
threatened by water
and livelihoods
insecurity due to
climate change

Identified Research Areas

Agriculture River basin Management

Climate change Transboundary Issues
Economics Water Conservation and
Hydrological & hydro- harvesting
geological modelling Water in Industries
Glaciology Water Quality and
Governance & Treatment
management of water Water Supply and Sanitation
resources Watershed Management
IWRM W tl d M
Wetland Managementt
6 Lake Management
 Potential clients

 Governments
G t (Central
(C t l & State)
St t )
 Corporate
 International organizations
 Educational Institutes
 Research organizations
 Other Knowledge Hubs
 Media

Partnering
g Institutes

International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)

(ICIMOD), Nepal
International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Sri Lanka
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT),
India
Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai (IIT, Chennai), India
National Institute of Hydrology (NIH), India
Saci WATERS, India
Centre for River Basin Organizations and Management (CRBOM), Indonesia
National Hydraulic Research Institute of Malaysia (NAHRIM)
(NAHRIM), Malaysia
UNICEF
Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), India
I di id l experts
Individual
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 Moving
g forward

Develop Membership framework

Improve networking
Mobilizing resources
Expand outreach
Upgrading website

TERI’s Projects
j
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1. Water demand management strategy and implementation action plan for
Bhopal, Jabalpur and Gwalior
2. Water quality monitoring in Bundelkhand region
3. Hydrological and hydrochemical studies of Najafgarh catchment (Delhi)
& its impact on river Yamuna
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4. Independent Third Party Water Assessment
5. Ground water vulnerability assessment at a river basin level in India
using DRASTIC approach
6. Designing a model for water recycling and reuse on 'Maintenance lines'
for Indian Railways: a pilot project for New Delhi Railway Station
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7. Conducting a diagnostic study for assessing availability,
availability quality,
quality
treatment and discharge of water, and implementation of suitable
solutions to address community concerns
TERI’s Projects
j
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8. Rejuvenation of traditional water harvesting systems
9. Development, Rehabilitation and Outreach Project (DROP) on integrated
watersheds (Nelamangala)
10. Conducting a GIS based diagnostic study for assessing availability and
quality of water resources to address watershed wide concerns using a
watershed approach.
11. Impact Evaluation Study (IES) of Watersheds treated during tenth five
year plan under NWDPRA
12. HighNoon: adaptation to changing water resources availability in
northern India with Himalayan glacier retreat and changing monsoon
pattern
13 Preservation of Fresh water ecosystems in Navi Mumbai for sustainable
13.
resource utilization
14. Heavy metal assessment of Yamuna River Water

TERI’s Projects
j
15 Perspective Water Vision 2030 Arunachal Pradesh
15.
16. Coastal vulnerability assessment and strategies for better preparedness
towards impacts of climate change and sea level rise: State of West
Bengal
17. Fluoride Contamination in Groundwater (Karnataka, India): A
Community Effort in Cost‐Affective Treatment and Management
18. Clean water by River bank Filtration ‐ A Demonstration of a Novel Site
Selection and Implementation Strategy in Southern India
19 A
19. Assessing
i Climate
Cli t Change
Ch V l
Vulnerability
bilit and
d Adaptation
Ad t ti St t i for
Strategies f
Maharashtra State
20. Assessment of Groundwater Contamination from Polluted Yamuna River
near Delhi (submitted to CGWB)
 Groundwater Management
g - Challenges
g

 Improper and inefficient groundwater management

 Problem is more complex in Asian context as great part of the
population is traditionally reliant on income from agriculture,
population growth, and poverty level
 Maintaining the benefits already accrued and ensuring future
food security and livelihoods is a major challenge in South
Asian countries
 Sustainable development of groundwater can be achieved
through holistic groundwater management policy framework
based on integrated approach.
approach

Groundwater Management
g - Approaches
pp

 Need to understand the drivers of groundwater use and

degradation

 Aquifer management – periodic assessment of groundwater potential

(quantity & quality) and consumption pattern specific to the aquifer system,
prevention of over-exploitation of groundwater near coast, control of
groundwater pollution (identification of source and extent of pollution,
restriction on disposal of waste, enforcement of remedial measures
 Role and involvement of public and private sectors in
groundwater economy

 Community groundwater management – Promoting government–

stakeholder interaction, Promotion off knowledge and public awareness,
building of local capacities, self-regulation (example-Andhra Pradesh)
 Groundwater Management
g - Approaches
pp

 Effective regulations and pricing mechanism -

installation of meters,
necessity of well registration, incentives for 4R (reduce, recycle, reuse, and
g ) effective price mechanism ((concerns of equityy and affordability
recharge), y to
the poor), groundwater use within safe yield, regular monitoring and
enforcement of rules, Land use regulation (restricting use of chemical
fertilizer and pesticides, housing density, set up of sewage treatment plants,
etc.)

 Recharge of groundwater –
augmenting existing water resources,
artificial
tifi i l recharge
h and
d rainwater
i t h
harvesting
ti (t h i l and
(technical d economical
i l
aspects)

 Demand management –water saving activities (leakage management in

domestic and industrial sectors, changing cropping patter), management of
energy-groundwater nexus

Groundwater Management
g - Approaches
pp

 Groundwater Database System - Improvement

I t and
d maintenance
i t off
monitoring and information system, sharing of database and information,
database quality and accessibility, research activities
 Building capacity at all levels – water is state subject, need to
strengthen the capacity at various levels especially at state level
 Integrated
I t t d development
d l t off groundwater
d t andd surface
f water
t –
conjunctive use of surface and groundwater for sustainable development

 Impact of Climate change on groundwater -

Change in temperature
and precipitation (amount, intensity and frequency), change in recharge and
evapotranspiration, sea level rise
THANK YOU
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